If ever there was a case that showed how counter productive the Baum Hedlund(Scientology) lawyer scam was it must be the sad case of a young child who shot dead his grand parents.
Chris Pittman was 12 when he pulled the trigger & was USED by this cult as a poster boy case to prove the theory that " ZOLOFT made me do it"
And where did it get Pittman ..................well thirty years in an adult jail & he was lucky the trial wasn't elsewhere in the USA (land of the free) because he would have got fried in the electric chair.
Compare & contrast that outcome with Bulger killers UK (Venables & Thompson) who were out after a few years.
So for all you people playing the circular hero/victim game please keep in mind that the little people, the patients are being sold down the river.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/aug/28/defense-team-made-mistakes-lawyers-say/
A 12-year-old South Carolina boy who killed his grandparents, blaming Zoloft, might have been better off if his attorneys had been focused on his defense instead of on drawing attention to the possible side effects of antidepressants, one of the boy's lawyers testified Thursday.
"The biggest fear that I had was that we needed more perspective from a criminal defense lawyer in South Carolina," said Karen Menzies, a civil litigator who was one of several attorneys on Christopher Pittman's original team.
Menzies testified during the second day of testimony in a hearing that will determine if Pittman gets a new trial.
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