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.  [...]

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 [...]