Accused Psychiatrist Killer Found Unfit for Trial

2008_08_tarloff.jpgThe man who allegedly stabbed an Upper East Side psychiatrist to death was now found unfit to stand trial according to new psychiatric reports obtained by WABC 7. Though David Tarloff was previously found fit to stand trial, he was re-evaluated after he assaulted a Queens court guard. One psychiatrist said, "The defendant's eye contact is intense and ominous. His mood is irate and very easily angered. Mr. Tarloff does not talk about his Manhattan case but does reference it on several occasions: 'I know the the incident in Manhattan, but I never hit anyone since grade school.'" His lawyer said it's ironic "that you can be found unfit in one county, Queens, but yet come over the border essentially to Manhtattan and be found fit there" and hopes that prosecutors agree Tarloff needs to be in a state psychiatric hospital.

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"...eye contact is intense and ominous. His mood is irate and very easily angered. "

SOUNDS LIKE MY WIFE !!!!
Maybe I am living with a psychiatric killer.

I thought this guy was braunstein last night.
I said, when did he get psychiatric practice?

All the guys at the forensic unit at Creedmoor are really pulling for Davy to score a lifetime interment. He's good at checkers and licks his comb better than anyone we've seen. And we've seen them all.

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