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Despite Zoloft Defense, Teenager Is Convicted of Murder
NY Times ^
| February 15, 2005
| SHAILA DEWAN
Posted on 02/15/2005 12:16:32 PM PST by neverdem
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With all the school shootings done by kids on this class of drugs, I'm surprised he wasn't acquitted.
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posted on
02/15/2005 12:16:33 PM PST
by
neverdem
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posted on
02/15/2005 12:31:49 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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posted on
02/15/2005 12:40:51 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Sounds like he had an anger problem. With a background like his, I'm not surprised that it produced a kid with anger raging.
His screwed up life is a great example why stable families matter.
This does not exonerate him...he made the wrong decisions, and should pay for them. But I can see why he would be angry.
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posted on
02/15/2005 12:42:39 PM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: neverdem
Blame everything and everyone except the one who did the deed. Zoloft is not for everyone, but it has helped many people. END
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posted on
02/15/2005 1:14:11 PM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: neverdem
Impossible to say from here whether Zoloft contributed to the homicide. I have no doubt, however, that certain psychotropic drugs can aggravate and perhaps even instill homicidal or suicidal tendencies. You'd have to be crazy to let people mess with your brain chemistry in ways they do not fully understand, upon psychiatric theories that are dubious. If some people think it helps them, then fine. I'm not sure it doesn't make a lot of people worse, though, in one way or another.
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posted on
02/15/2005 1:31:06 PM PST
by
SalukiLawyer
(12" Powerbook, Airport, surfing FR anywhere I want to)
To: neverdem
Thirty years sounds way to short for the murder of two people.
If he was arrested @ 12 and gets 30 years he will be out @ 42. Way too soon.
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posted on
02/15/2005 1:31:49 PM PST
by
CurlyDave
To: neverdem
12 years old with obvious mental problems and they tried him as an adult?
To: neverdem
With all the school shootings done by kids on this class of drugs, I'm surprised he wasn't acquitted.As far as I'm concerned, the kid deserves all the years he's gonna get, Zoloft or no Zoloft.
To: CurlyDave
Actually, he's currently 15, which means he'll get out at 45.
To: neverdem
Let's see....he's a young troubled boy with a violent nature, tried to strangle a classmate and his Grandfather give a shotgun as a present? OMG.
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posted on
02/15/2005 1:54:22 PM PST
by
Hildy
( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
To: neverdem
Expert testimony about the effects of Zoloft, he said, had created "a smokescreen." Mega-dittos!
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posted on
02/15/2005 1:54:42 PM PST
by
technochick99
(Self defense is a basic human right & Sig Sauer is my equalizer)
To: SalukiLawyer
You might have a law degree, but it's
obvious you do not have one in medicine.
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posted on
02/15/2005 2:00:48 PM PST
by
onyx
("First you look to God, then to Fox News" -- Denny Crane, Republican...lol.)
To: onyx
No, I do not have one in medicine. You'd be surprised what an intelligent, inquisitive layman can learn, though. I take it you do not agree that drugs can contribute to destructive behavior? Interesting point of view, to which you are welcome, friend.
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posted on
02/15/2005 2:09:12 PM PST
by
SalukiLawyer
(12" Powerbook, Airport, surfing FR anywhere I want to)
To: SalukiLawyer
I take it you do not agree that drugs can contribute to destructive behavior?
Oh please counselor. Do NOT make a blanket assumption.
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posted on
02/15/2005 2:15:52 PM PST
by
onyx
("First you look to God, then to Fox News" -- Denny Crane, Republican...lol.)
To: onyx
Okay. I'd love to play decipher-the-cryptic-fortune-cookie-comments, but got to run.
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posted on
02/15/2005 2:22:17 PM PST
by
SalukiLawyer
(12" Powerbook, Airport, surfing FR anywhere I want to)
To: neverdem
Here's the Court TV report, and they showed the whole trial live. Pittman, as a 12 year-old had a very bad background, and he planned the murder of his grandparents all too chillingly, particularly for a 12 year-old. With two 30 year covictions to run concurrently, he can get out by the age 42.
Pittman.
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:15:50 PM PST
by
xJones
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:59:19 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
I'm so glad that kid got jail time. Big time.
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posted on
02/15/2005 6:00:25 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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