Is there any case law where evidence of a defendant's blood alcohol content three and a half hours after the crime invites the jury to speculate on his intoxication, inhibition and impulse at the time of the crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Matta, C080862 (Cal. App. 2017):
Here, evidence of defendant's blood-alcohol content three and one-half hours after the crime similarly invited the jury "to speculate on [the level of defendant's] intoxication, inhibition, and impulse" at the time of the murder. (People v. Stitely, supra,
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