Posted on 10/02/2012 2:37:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A Harlem doc who got caught writing phony prescriptions for more than 27,000 Oxycontin pills contends that an alternate personality named "Nala" was actually behind the scam.
A lawyer for Dr. Diana Williamson -- who's been acclaimed for her work with drug addicts -- said in court this morning that she suffers from multiple-personality disorder stemming from childhood sex abuse by a perverted priest.
"I am keenly aware that Nala, while in Dr. Williamson's body, committed some very serious crimes," defense lawyer Jonathan Marks said, calling it a "mitigating factor" in the case.
But Manhattan federal Chief Judge Loretta Preska appeared dubious of Williamson's "Sybil" defense, noting that no one has corroborated her self-described symptoms.
"It doesn't seem to have impaired her ability to function as a medical professional," Preska said.
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In the legal profession we have a word for people who use this defense - “convict”
There is no such thing as multiple personalities.
I agree.
So do I.
“The Devil made me do it”
The Devil made me do it.
and me too.
Even Sybil admitted she was a fraud:
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake
Does she also prescribe this?
Didn't Perry Mason have a client like that once?
I don’t see how anyone with DID could possibly make it through the pressures of medical school without having a break during that time which would have prevented her from receiving a medical license. I call BS on this defense.
Give him 2 skittles and send him to jail.
So we are supposed to believe that her other personality wrote the prescriptions?
But yet she signed them under her Dr, personality.
I guess we will see if the Judge buys that.
So we are supposed to believe that her other personality wrote the prescriptions?
But yet she signed them under her Dr, personality.
I guess we will see if the Judge buys that.
Give me a break!
You can’t make this stuff up,
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