re: No prison time for woman convicted in cannabis-induced killing

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I don’t understand this part

Under California criminal law, people are responsible for their actions when impaired by alcohol or drugs unless their intoxication was involuntary.

The article implying she got high against her will? He hotbox her in a car or something? She said she was smoking.

This is a wild sentencing

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Spejcher testified that she asked him for a hit from the bong. He prepared it for her and she inhaled. All she felt, she told the court, was 'burning and coughing'.

Some 15 minutes later, when the effects had failed to kick in, O'Melia added more cannabis to the device, generating more smoke, and, according to Spejcher said: 'something like, let's make this more intense for you...or more f**ked up'.

In her testimony, Spejcher claimed that she did not want to smoke more but felt pressured.

'He got up from his chair and turned the bong toward my face, rushed it to my face and was pressuring me, "Hurry up, hurry up, you’ve got to inhale," she said, according to the testimony reported by the Ventura County Star.

'It all happened so fast. I felt like I couldn’t say no, and I inhaled out of the bong.'

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