Preppy Killer To Use Drug-Psychiatric Defense

Robert Chambers, the infamous Preppy Killer who was busted last fall for dealing drugs to undercover cops, is going to use a "psychiatric 'poly-substance abuse' defense." His lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg told a judge, "He did not act knowingly" because he was so influenced by drugs.

How influenced? Van Leer-Greenberg said, "He was using 10 to 12 bags of heroin a day," plus he smoked crack and pot and abused the painkiller Dilaudid. Currently at Rikers, Chambers has been given methadone for a few weeks.

However prosecutors contend that Chambers had it together enough to deal drugs. Van Leer-Greenberg agreed to turn over Chambers' medical examinations. And Chambers' live-in girlfriend who was also swept up in the bust pleaded guilty last year and was released.

Surveillance photograph of Chambers from the cops' undercover operation

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By Jen Chung in News on March 12, 2008 8:40 AM

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ANGRYGOD11

This is a valid defense? Isn't every drunk driver too drunk to know what they were doing? Doesn't this mean every drug addict is beyond the law? And doesn't this mean only the drug dealers who don't get high on their own supply go to prison?

kearnj

Let him abuse that crap, it'll put him where he's going to end up.

pissyrabbit

They should have put him down when they had the chance.

If he was doing 10-12 bags of heroin plus delaudid plus pot there is no way he was *conscious* enough hours of the day to deal drugs. Even with the crack.