Shooter Claiming Adderall-Fueled Psychosis Wins New Murder Trial

An Oklahoma man claiming he was in a state of Adderall-induced psychosis when he shot and killed his neighbor in December 2021 won his bid for a new trial on Tuesday.

The district court botched its instructions on voluntary intoxication when it told the jury that Robert Rainford couldn’t have been involuntarily intoxicated if he knew of Adderall’s possible intoxicating effects or had used illegal drugs while taking his prescription. Those factors might be probative of whether intoxication was involuntary, but they aren’t dispositive, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said.

“By incorrectly instructing that these factors ...