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Charges In Anna Nicole’s Death
Several years after Anna Nicole’s death, charges are still pending against those who gave her the medication that allegedly lead to her death.
More than two-and-a-half years after the death of model and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith, the courts are still trying to determine if anyone will serve time for their roles in her death by accidental drug overdose.
Howard K. Stern, Smith’s lawyer and companion, and two doctors are charged with conspiracy to provide the drugs that led to Smith's February 2007 death. In early October 2009, special agent Danny Santiago of the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement testified at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles. Stern faces 11 felony counts while the doctors are charged with six each. Charges include an illegal conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense controlled substances to an addict.
Smith died in Florida from what the medical examiner ruled "acute combined drug intoxication." Investigators found 12 types of prescription drugs, including dangerous opiates, in the hotel room, Santiago said, adding that seven of them were prescribed to Stern.
A string of pharmacists provided statements that they had warned the doctors who are currently charged that the drugs they were prescribing were dangerous in those amounts or combinations. One even refused to fill an order. Whether the charges will result in any jail time for Stern and the two doctors remains to be seen.
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