Saturday, February 19, 2005
Another Hollyweird Court Case
This case is getting to look just like a movie of the week. Here is some of the latest happenings. See what I mean?
Blake Defense Attacks Witness Credibility- By The Associated Press
Expert describes effects of cocaine and methamphetamine -- the drugs which two retired stuntmen who testified against Blake admitted they had used.
Robert Blake's defense, attacking the credibility of drug users as key witnesses in the murder case against the actor, presented testimony today from a drug expert who said that cocaine and methamphetamines alter perception and cause paranoia.
Ronald Keith Siegel, a psychopharmacologist on the faculty of UCLA medical school, described for jurors the effects of cocaine and methamphetamine -- the drugs which two retired stuntmen who testified against Blake admitted they had used.
Siegel said the drugs caused hallucinations which are so real that they persist in the minds of users for many years and that users remain convinced that what they perceived was real.
"You can't win an argument with a paranoid," he said. "They are so convinced of the reality."
Siegel, who said he has studied hallucinatory drugs since the 1960s, told of trying the drugs himself to experience the effects and said he once crawled into the cages of monkeys who were smoking cocaine. But he said he has not tried the drugs in more than 25 years.
Blake Defense Attacks Witness Credibility- By The Associated Press
Expert describes effects of cocaine and methamphetamine -- the drugs which two retired stuntmen who testified against Blake admitted they had used.
Robert Blake's defense, attacking the credibility of drug users as key witnesses in the murder case against the actor, presented testimony today from a drug expert who said that cocaine and methamphetamines alter perception and cause paranoia.
Ronald Keith Siegel, a psychopharmacologist on the faculty of UCLA medical school, described for jurors the effects of cocaine and methamphetamine -- the drugs which two retired stuntmen who testified against Blake admitted they had used.
Siegel said the drugs caused hallucinations which are so real that they persist in the minds of users for many years and that users remain convinced that what they perceived was real.
"You can't win an argument with a paranoid," he said. "They are so convinced of the reality."
Siegel, who said he has studied hallucinatory drugs since the 1960s, told of trying the drugs himself to experience the effects and said he once crawled into the cages of monkeys who were smoking cocaine. But he said he has not tried the drugs in more than 25 years.
