WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Judge refuses to reduce sentence in Zoloft defense case
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(Charleston-AP) April 13, 2005 - A judge has refused to reduce the sentence for a teenager who killed his grandparents at their Chester County home in 2001.
Circuit Judge Danny Pieper says there is no constitutional violation in the 30-year sentence given 15-year-old Christopher Pittman earlier this year. Pieper says he doesn't think the standards of decency have evolved to the point that a long prison term is inappropriate.
Pittman was convicted February 15th in Charleston in the deaths of 66-year-old Joe Pittman and 62-year-old Joy Pittman. The boy was 12 at the time. The jury rejected his claim he was involuntarily intoxicated by the antidepressant Zoloft and didn't know right from wrong.
Pieper says he finds no violation of the ban against cruel and unusual punishment in the sentence.
Posted 11:43am by BrettWitt
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