Six days have gone by and the jury is still deliberating in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case. According to the Associated Press, there are 21 separate decisions the panel is evaluating regarding Smith’s former lawyer/lover Stern and Drs. Kapoor and Eroshevich. Because there are multiple charges against each defendant, the jury will answer a list of questions as to why the defendants are found guilty, if convicted. For instance, the jurors will be asked “to answer true or not true to whether the defendants conspired to unlawfully prescribe, administer or dispense a controlled substance to an addict.” The jury must reach a unanimous decision on each charge and with the complex instructions given by Judge Perry, this lengthy trial may drag on. As of now the jury talked for over 30 hours about the outcome – an outcome which is expected to “reverberate among doctors and pain management patients whose need for drugs is at the heart of California laws.” Stay tuned for the latest trial updates!
4 thoughts on “Criminal Trial of Co-Defendants Stern, Kapoor & Eroshevich: Jury Update”
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One can only hope that guilty verdicts accross the board DO “reverberate among doctors and pain management patients whose need for drugs is at the heart of California laws”!
Doctors have nothing to worry about as long as they follow standard of care and order tests and keep medical records!!
This jury has a gut wrenching job to decipher and interpret all the evidence and testimony they have received…What makes it especialy hard is that they have to answer a questionaire from the judge. interesting…i hever heard of that before….
I will be glad when the jury DOES find the defendants GUILTY as charged…and
hopefully this will send a powerful message to those physicians who want to use their influence to peddle drugs to those who are famous and can afford the
money to keep them complicit.