Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones, two bartenders at the 801 Bourbon Bar in Key West, have just won the right to get married after suing the Monroe County Clerk for a marriage license in April. The two met at a Pride celebration 11 years ago where Huntsman was the reigning Mr. Pride. This Thursday, the couple were finally able to take a step towards officially getting married when Circuit Judge Luis Garcia declared Florida's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
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On the afternoon of the day of the murder, the defendant began drinking one hundred proof peppermint schnapps and ingesting Elavil [Note 1], a prescription medication that the defendant had found. Later that evening, the defendant purchased two twelve packs of beer, and drove to a nearby bridge where he drank the beers, smoked "crack" cocaine, and took more Elavil. Next, the defendant drove to a bar just over the Massachusetts border where he consumed more alcohol until the bartender refused to serve him. After leaving the bar, he ingested more Elavil and smoked crack cocaine and marijuana, before driving to Quincy.
When the defendant and his girl friend awoke on the morning of October 14, they packed an overnight bag for a trip to Massachusetts, where they planned to go to a bank to get money, possibly to leave town. The girl friend drove while the defendant slept in the passenger seat. The two arrived in Braintree at around 5 p.m., after the bank had closed. After speaking to a longtime friend of the defendant who did not want the pair to come to her house, the girl friend attempted to hide the vehicle, and ultimately discovered that the defendant's golf bag was missing from the trunk. When she asked the defendant if he had killed the victim, he said he was not sure, but that he remembered being on the porch of the victim's home. After this conversation, the defendant and the girl friend planned to go to Florida, where she had family. The defendant ended up driving to Lawrence, where his cousin lived. Shortly thereafter, the police arrived and arrested the defendant. During a search of the defendant's vehicle, the police found one live round of ammunition; a box of .22 caliber ammunition; live rounds of .22 caliber ammunition in the pouch of a sweatshirt; and full and empty beer cans that matched the brand of beer the defendant had dropped on the porch.
The defendant acknowledged that, in February, 1998, he had to vacate the marital home because, following an argument, the victim obtained a restraining order against him. After staying with his parents for a few weeks, the defendant left their home and moved in with friend who lived in New Hampshire. During this time, the defendant used alcohol and drugs, including cocaine, prescription pills, sleeping pills, mushrooms, and marijuana. In March, 1998, after the defendant met and began dating his girl friend, his drug use "got out of control." The defendant's longtime friend testified that because of the restraining order and issues concerning the custody of the defendant's son, the defendant was "upset," "confused," and "stressing out," and began drinking more heavily, partying, and using crack cocaine and other drugs.
Throughout September, 1998, the defendant continued to use drugs and alcohol in increasing amounts and contemplated suicide. After exhausting his retirement loan funds, the defendant was unable to pay rent and was evicted from his apartment. The defendant and his girl friend moved in with the defendant's uncle in Richmond, New Hampshire. There, the defendant continued to use drugs: crack cocaine, Klonopin, Valium, painkillers, and alcohol. According to the defendant's uncle, the defendant was "pretty well burned out" and "loaded" in the days leading up to the murder.
Given the dearth of information suggesting even the possibility of a viable lack of criminal responsibility defense, we discern no basis to conclude that trial counsel was obliged to embark on a futile journey into the realm of an insanity defense. See Commonwealth v. Lang, 473 Mass. 1, 15 (2015) (Hines, J., concurring) (rejecting proposition that defense counsel must "pursue a full scale mental evaluation in every case where the facts or the defendant's background suggests only a hint of a mental issue").
case, [Note 9] this attorney, at the defendant's insistence, also filed a motion for funds to hire a neurologist to evaluate the defendant for his claimed "brain abnormality." In advocating for the testing, defense counsel explained that although no medical professional recommended the testing, he sought funds because "[the defendant] feels and strongly suspects that he suffers from a brain abnormality, which if [sic] could be explored and shown to be true would then allow a him a full-blown insanity defense." Noting that the defendant presented no evidence (medical or otherwise), beyond his own belief, that he suffered from an brain abnormality, the judge denied the motion.
Dr. Joss opined that, based on the various substances that the defendant ingested, including large quantities of alcohol, prescription medications, crack cocaine, and marijuana, the defendant was "impaired in his ability to plan [and] to carry out planful action" on October 13, 1998. Moreover, Dr. Joss opined that the amount of drugs and alcohol the defendant ingested on the night of the victim's killing was "consistent with suffering blackouts." Importantly, Joss explained to the jury the difference between the effect of drugs and alcohol on cognitive function versus motor function, a topic on which the Commonwealth focused in its cross-examination. Specifically, he explained that a person may be able to maintain motor coordination "reasonably well," yet be deficient in other aspects of cognitive function. Thus, Dr. Joss
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