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Another desperate young drug addict plundering to maintain his habit? Not at all. Defense Attorney Ellis Rubin, 52, claims Ronald Zamora is hooked on something far less exotic. Rubin's unusual trial strategy: to prove that Zamora is innocent because he "was suffering from and acted under the influence of prolonged, intense, involuntary, subliminal television intoxication...
...persuade the jury that Zamora has been electronically "brainwashed," Rubin plans to introduce testimony from several psychiatrists that his client appears to be living in a "television fantasy world," diminishing his sense of right and wrong...
...Zamora, says Rubin, "the tube became his parents and his school and his church." Adds the defense attorney...
...Pulling the trigger became as common to him as killing a fly." Zamora did not realize he was committing cold-blooded murder, contends Rubin, but "was just acting out a television script." The defense has claimed that circumstances of the crime were eerily similar to two recent episodes of Kojak and a Dracula movie Zamora watched the night before the murder. For its part, the prosecution disputes the plea of insanity, pointing out, for instance, that after the murder, Zamora treated four friends to a long weekend of fun at Disney World, compliments, he told them, of his father...
...Zamora's parents believe their son has been mentally disturbed since he witnessed a close friend drown two years ago; they even sent him to a therapist ten days before the crime. The Zamoras will also testify Ronald was a confirmed TV addict who spent at least six hours a day staring at the screen; he refused to eat unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak...