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'Preppie Killer' to use drug addiction defense

Robert Chambers will use a psychiatric "poly-substance abuse" defense, his lawyer said in court yesterday, claiming Chambers' lifelong drug addiction to heroin, cocaine and prescription drugs led to the drug dealing enterprise he operated out of a Manhattan apartment last year.

At a pre-trial hearing before Judge Edward McLaughlin in Manhattan Criminal Court, defense attorney Valerie Van...

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