Too Drunk To Crime
A Muslim man who killed a Jewish woman in an antisemitic attack was probably not criminally responsible because he was high on cannabis, a French judge has ruled.
I can't speak on French laws or even whether this article is being reported with the proper legal nuance, BUT there is such a thing as "voluntary intoxication" as a defense in US criminal law. Almost every criminal act in the United States requires mens rea, which is the intention or knowledge of criminal doing (statutory rape is the most prominent exception, in that intent or knowledge does not matter). Therefore, if you voluntarily get yourself to be so intoxicated that you lose sight of what's going on, logically that means you lacked the intent or knowledge for one of the elements of the crime. I had a supremely silly trespass trial once where the entire defense was "voluntary intoxication". When I first read the police report, it described a really sketchy situation where my client was apparently hanging around this dude's toolshed in broad daylight. The homeowner repeatedly called him an idiot and to get off his property but he just kept coming back. When the police officer showed up, he seemed equally perplexed considering that my client parked his bright yellow truck just nearby.
Turns out, my client got really depressed after losing his job and went to his drug dealer's house to get completely fucked up. He swallowed a cocktail of various opiates, hung out in the backyard, hallucinated that he was on the job (he was a plumber), then managed to wander to the neighbor's backyard. Because of the trees in between, he got repeatedly lost.
It was a fun trial, partly because the prosecutor was so angry that we took the lowest level crimes to a jury. We ended up losing but that wasn't a surprise. I couldn't get the drug dealer or his girlfriend to testify that my client was fucked up, and everyone that interacted with him that day didn't notice anything off but it was worth a shot. The prosecutor asked for several months in jail because he was still pissed at having to go through the trial. My client got a few days of ankle monitoring. He said the cost of ankle monitoring was worth the insight into the criminal justice system. Despite being a career criminal when he was younger, this was the first jury trial he ever went through.