P. v. McNabb CA5
Appellant/defendant Dylan Nicholas McNabb was charged with first degree premeditated murder for killing his grandmother after he fired a single rifle shot into her head. Defendant was 19 years old. Defendant’s grandmother had lived with defendant and his father, and tried to help defendant stop using designer drugs known as “bath salts.”
Defendant was arrested shortly after the homicide and told the police during a lengthy postarrest interview that he used bath salts that day and intentionally killed his grandmother because he heard voices telling him to do so. By the time of trial, defendant changed his story and claimed he lied about everything he said in his postarrest interview. Defendant testified at trial that he had not used bath salts before the homicide, he never heard voices, and he made up that story because he thought his best chance was to appear crazy during his postarrest interview. Defendant testified that what really happened was that he had just been exami
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