The 2001 case of a Chester County man who blamed the antidepressant drug Zoloft for the shotgun slaying of his grandparents when he was 12 is coming to the big screen. “Proverbs,” directed by local ...
A teenager who unsuccessfully blamed Zoloft after slaying his grandparents never should have been tried as an adult and should have his 30-year prison sentence cut to probation, his lawyers argued.
At first, Zoloft seemed like “manna from heaven,” says the 53-year-old teacher from Watertown, Mass. It was the summer of 1999 and, for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand, she had slipped into ...
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Pfizer Inc. isn’t liable to the family of a man who committed suicide. The family claimed that Pfizer’s alleged failure to warn physicians and patients that ...
A South Carolina jury will decide whether a slightly built 15-year-old is a vicious killer or was turned into one by a prescription drug. Christopher Pittman is charged with the November 2001 shooting ...
The defense team for 15-year-old Christopher Pittman recently argued that the prescription drug Zoloft caused violent behavior and ultimately led to his 2001 murder of both of his grandparents in ...
Charleston, SC -- Attorneys for Christopher Pittman asked a state judge to reduce the 15-year-old's sentence for murder from 30 years in prison to time served and probation until he is 21. Pittman was ...
After spending close to half his life behind bars, 20-year-old Christopher Pittman finally made it into the witness chair to testify in a South Carolina courtroom. He never took the stand at his trial ...