Bryn Spejcher, 32, clutched a photo of herself with her pup, a husky, during jury selection last week in Ventura County, California, according to the Daily Mail.
The audiologist allegedly smoked marijuana from a bong before plunging three knives — including an 8-inch serrated bread knife — into her boyfriend Chad O’Melia 108 times, according to the Ventura County Star.
The purportedly weed-spurred killing occurred inside O’Melia’s condominium in Thousand Oaks, and the victim had stab wounds to nearly every part of his body, according to investigators.
Prosecutors say she then killed her dog with one of the knives before stabbing herself.
Responding police said she continued stabbing herself even as an officer used his stun gun on, trying to stop her. She only dropped the knife after another officer hit her nine times with his retractable steel baton.
Surgeons managed to save her life.
Her defense team contends that Spejcher was in the midst of a marijuana-induced psychosis the night she killed O’Melia and her pooch.
Recreational pot use was legalized in California after voters approved a 2016 ballot measure. For two decades before that, it was available for medical use with a doctor’s note.
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