The game here is to identify the person's defense at trial, based on the details published of the crime:

A Tampa Bay woman who was plagued by uncontrollable hiccups for months is charged in the killing of a man during a robbery, police said.

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All that hiccuping bruised her brain and damaged her mental health. That or the cocktail of drugs she took to cure the hiccuping caused her to commit murder.

She needed money to buy some anti-hiccup medicine immediately. If at gun point--so be it.

insanity of course. all that hiccuping would drive anyone crazy...

On CSI, don't you think we would discover that the victim induced the hiccups as revenge for the killer dumping him?

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The victim had merely asked the defendant to hold his firearm, when suddenly the violent hiccups reappeared, causing the defendant to involuntarily pull the trigger. Three times.

I think the hiccups were long gone prior to the murder. But something akin to the bad childhood/product of an abusive home defense might work...I know--BULLYING!!! She was bullied unmercilessly due to the hicupping, and it's permanently damaged her self-esteem, so she had to go out and um, assert herself as part of her recovery process.

She has post traumatic stress disorder from her hiccup event. She has periods of black outs and does not remember robbery.

she had a hiccup while cleaning her loaded .45

Tourette's syndrome!

"'Hiccups are a symptom of Tourette's,' Trevena said, declining to be more specific about how the condition might have affected his client's behavior."

The iPod was charging. I really didn't know it was recording the naked lady in the shower. Really.



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