Intoxication is not a defense to a crime.  However, evidence of intoxication by drugs or alcohol can potentially eliminate an element of a charged crime.  In raising this issue, you must show that you could not form the mental state required to commit the crime.  To be successful, you need to establish the significant impact [...]

Extreme Emotional Disturbance (EED) is a New York-specific defense in Murder cases only. To be clear if you are found to have committed a murder under an EED, you would be found not guilty of Murder, but guilty of Manslaughter. EED is a very different defense than claiming insanity or mental disease or defect.  First, [...]