- Posted June 06, 2011
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Low sodium-based insanity defense gets withdrawn in murder
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) -- An insanity defense based on an untreated low sodium condition has been withdrawn for a Macomb County man accused of killing his 62-year-old mother after she refused to give him money for drugs.
The Macomb Daily in Mount Clemens reports that Charles Foresi's lawyer told a judge last Thursday that an expert could not agree the condition could have led to a state of insanity.
Attorney Timothy Kohler said last month that the 39-year-old Foresi experienced brain dysfunction because he suffered from hyponatremia, or a lack of salt in bodily fluids outside the cells.
Foresi is charged with first-degree murder. A trial is scheduled for June 21.
Mattie Foresi was stabbed 43 times last August in the home they shared in Roseville, just north of Detroit.
Published: Mon, Jun 6, 2011
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