Clinton Wayne Saizon, 36, was found dead in his camper-trailer in Waskom, Texas, on December 5, 2015. Investigators reported drug paraphernalia in the trailer, including pipes and syringes commonly associated with methamphetamine use. The circumstances were treated as a homicide.

Marilyn Marche Kirkland was identified as the suspect. Four days after Saizon’s body was found she gave a voluntary statement to the Waskom Police Department in which she confessed to shooting Saizon once in the chest with a handgun. She was arrested and indicted for his murder.

At trial Kirkland asserted temporary insanity due to voluntary intoxication. The jury was instructed that intoxication or temporary insanity could not be used as a defense to avoid guilt but could be considered in mitigation of punishment. The jury found Kirkland guilty and imposed a forty-year sentence; she later appealed, arguing errors in jury instructions and prosecutorial comments.

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