PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of randomly shooting at people in Pleasant Hill last year plans to argue at his trial next week that he was too intoxicated to know what he was doing.
Des Moines television station KCCI reported (http://bit.ly/1L4iep3 ) late Monday that Pete Polson’s attorney, Philip Reser, filed court papers indicating he planned to present an “intoxication defense.” The papers don’t indicate whether Polson says he was intoxicated by alcohol, drugs or both.
Police say the 33-year-old Polson drove around a Pleasant Hill neighborhood on Nov. 17 and fired shots at three people, wounding two of them.
Reser did not immediately return a phone message left Tuesday by The Associated Press seeking comment.
Polson is charged with three counts of attempted murder.
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