Phillip Michael Dominguez, of San Jose was picked up on charged of rape and child molestation and kidnapping on a girl the age of 14. The Defense: he was on PCP at the time. It is reported that Dominguez approached a friend's bedroom window and told the victim (who has not been named) that her mother needed her to go shopping. The girl climbed out the window and left with the defendant. When the girl was found her skirt was found on backwards and her shoes flown aside. On a phone call later with the police Dominguez asked if she hurt the girl and that he was high on PCP.
PCP, or phencyclidine, is a dissociative anesthetic that was developed in the 1950s as a surgical anesthetic. Its sedative and anesthetic effects are trance-like, and patients experience a feeling of being "out of body" and detached from their environment. Use of PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was found that patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects. It can be found in liquids, powders and capsules.
Scientifically, PCP stands for phenylcyclohexylpiperidine. In its early vernacular it was called angel dust and competed with cocaine, crystalline tropane alkaloid, which comes from the cocoa leaf in South America.
Dominguez defense is not an affirmative defense at all. However, it may be somewhat mitigating (that is a passionate defense attorney talking. However this is a specific intent crime so any leniency by the court is unlikely. This man is facing 3-6 years state prison.
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