Naeem Ahmed, the little bit crazy naturalized Pakistani man currently being charged with stalking JFK's 20-year-old granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg, doesn't want a shrink. So much so that rather than take a plea deal he is willing to take his chances on a trail to avoid two months in jail and three years in treatment. After all, the 41-year-old was just being romantic! "On Valentine's Day, many people would go to jail doing what he did," his lawyer Gerald Hertz told the judge today.
Ahmed's lawyer is pushing that angle hard—"If expressions of love are illegal, then Romeo and Juliet broke the law," was another one he got out there today—which makes a certain amount of sense. His client genuinely only now seems to be grasping that what he did was wrong (what he did included sending the 20-year-old Yale student e-cards like “My Dearest Hunny Bunny! Have A Happy Valentine's Day. Do I love you? Yes I do. Do you? Truly Yours, Yours Hubby, Naeem."). "I will never do it again—I'm sorry... Nobody told me—not try to stop me," Ahmed reportedly told a court-appointed therapist regarding the situation.
And Ahmed has one other reason to not take that plea: he wants to be a taxi driver, and you can't be a hack with a criminal offense on your record.
