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Justices Decline ?Zoloft Defense? Case

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Ed Silverman over at Pharmalot notes that the Supreme Court denied cert. in the "Zoloft Defense" case, Pittman v. South Carolina. From the New York Times article linked at Pharmalot: The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from a South Carolina teenager who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents with a shotgun when he was 12 years old.... The ?Zoloft defense? was hotly debated at the time of his trial in February 2005. Shortly before the killings of Nov. 28, 2001, the 12-year-old Christopher had begun taking Zoloft that was prescribed. His parents had taken him to Chester County, S.C., to live with his grandparents, Joe and Joy Pittman, because he was having trouble at home in Florida...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).