The drugs made me do it.
It’s an interesting defense — especially in a drug sale case — but Preppy Killer Robert Chambers plans to give it a whirl, his lawyer said yesterday.
“The defense here is going to be diminished capacity, predicated upon chronic substance abuse — among other defenses,” Chambers’ lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg told a judge.
Chambers — still notorious for the “rough sex” strangling of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park two decades ago — is facing a possible life in prison on charges he sold a half pound of coke to undercover cops over the course of seven drug deals this past summer.
Under the “diminished capacity” defense, Chambers can try to convince jurors that he was too fried by years of drug abuse to have been responsible for his actions.
He can also try to convince jurors that his hunger for drugs was so uncontrollable, it compelled him to sell drugs as an only means of affording more for himself.
Also yesterday, Chambers pleaded not guilty to additional charges of resisting arrest and assaulting cops — breaking one of their wrists — during his arrest last month at he and his girlfriend’s E. 57th Street apartment.
He and the girlfriend, Shawn Kovell, remain in separate cells at Rikers; her next date is Nov. 21 and he’s due back Dec. 18.