People v. Hari

Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, McMorrow, Kilbride, Garman, and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

Defendant David A. Hari admitted to shooting his wife and her lover. The principal issue at defendant’s trial was his culpability for those shootings. Thus the evidence adduced concerned the opposing issues of whether defendant planned the crime or whether defendant was relieved of culpability due to purported involuntary intoxication from his prescription Zoloft medication in combination with other factors. The circuit court of Ford County denied defendant’s…