Judge to Rule in New Adam Rich Case
A San Fernando Municipal Court judge is to rule Monday whether former child actor Adam Rich violated his probation by allegedly staging an accident in order to obtain painkillers.
Rich, who played Nicholas Bradford on television’s “Eight Is Enough,” is accused by officials of a Pasadena drug rehabilitation center of deliberately throwing himself down a flight of stairs, then asking for some painkiller.
Rich, 23, was ordered into the program by Judge Nora M. Manella after he pleaded no contest to shoplifting from a Northridge department store. He also is facing a charge of burglarizing a West Hills pharmacy to obtain painkillers and of stealing a drug-filled syringe from a Marina del Rey hospital.
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