Dr. Sandeep Kapoor thought he would lend his support during the (non) sentencing of his co-defendants Howard K. Stern and (hand tap) Khristine Eroshevich in the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial. Surprise, he was served with a subpoena for a separate case.

Eroshevich next? I certainly hope so and then the California Bar Association needs to take a look at ethical issues concerning Stern.  Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry’s reasoning for dismissing charges against Stern is shocking. Perry dismissed the felony charges against Howard K. Stern saying,

“I don’t think there’s evidence that a layperson knows it’s illegal to write a prescription in another name for a celebrity,” the judge said, noting that Stern is not a doctor..

Puhlease! He is a lawyer. He has a law degree. Add to that, how many criminals say, “I didn’t know that I was doing anything wrong.” As far as I know, ignorance is not an acceptable defense in a REAL courtroom.

Judge Perry was not scheduled to try this case but somehow he ended up with it. Seeing that he expressed his personal opinion and support for the defendants about the case during the preliminary hearing, he should have recused himself before the trial even started. He did not allow important evidence and refused the victim and her family a fair trial. I am told Anna Nicole’s mother was not consulted about the final outcome as she should have been under California’s Marsy’s Law, The Victim’s Bill of Rights Act of 2008.

Perry also said he did not agree that Smith was an addict. Yes, Anna Nicole Smith was a SELF ADMITTED ADDICT.

As far as celebrities being above the law, Judge Perry obviously agrees. What a good judge would do is encourage stiff penalties for any HIPAA medical privacy violations. Judge Perry should encourage that laws be upheld and not the violation of laws as he is condoning in this case.

Judge Perry overstepped. He ignored advice to trust the jury and made a sham of their good work and lengthy deliberations. There is more to come on this. As has been said before, Perry threw out a lot of damning evidence that should have been allowed to be presented to the jury. Details about some of this behavior is in the pipeline to be revealed and hopefully can be published in the not so distant future.

Now, the California Medical Board is coming after Sandeep Kapoor. What a lot of people may not know is that Kapoor, who once placed an advertisement boasting that he practices, “Entertainment Medicine”, was under investigation for prescribing practices with other patients. When the California Department of Justice looked into the Anna Nicole case they found that Kapoor excessively prescribing controlled substances for other than a legitimate medical purpose to nine other patients. The details can be found in this document and starting on page 36. A companion document can be found at this link.

Here is a taste of what Kapoor over prescribed in the opinion of doctors and investigators with some of the amounts being labeled as “massive”. There are least a couple of celebrity names in the document as well.

Patient #1
Patient’s mother, a registered nurse filed a complaint with the CA medical board against Kapoor for what she thought was excessive and dangerous prescribing practices with her daughter.
Phentermine (Schedule IV weight loss)
Clonazepam (Schedule IV sedative)
Oxycodone (Schedule II narcotic)
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)

Patient #2
Dextrostat (Schedule II amphetamine)
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)
Morphine Sulfate (Schedule II narcotic)
Endocet (Schedule II  narcotic)

Patient #3
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)
Hydrocodone (Schedule III narcotic)

Patient #4
Hydrocodone Bitartrate (Schedule III narcotic)

Patient #5
This person has a criminal record as a controlled substance offender.
Hydromorphone (Schedule II narcotic)
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)
Oxycontin (Schedule II narcotic)

Patient #6
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)
Adderall (Schedule II stimulant)

Patient #7
Ritalin (Schedule II stimulant)
Adderall (Schedule II stimulant)

Patient #8
Oxycontin (Schedule II narcotic)
Oxycodone (Schedule II narcotic)
Hydrocodone (Schedule II narcotic)

Patient #9
Methadone (Schedule II narcotic)
Oxycontin (Schedule II narcotic)

With the publication of Khristine Eroshevich snorting a white power substance from a straw and the bath tub pictures of the psychiatrist and Anna Nicole, her patient,  I expect the CA Medical Board has a surprise for her too.

I also want to mention as I watched the post “sentencing” interviews, I saw two lawyers either lying or they were misinformed by their clients.

Stern attorney Steve Sadow has said repeatedly that Anna Nicole Smith has suffered from chronic pain her whole life. Not true. A source close to the family denies that claim. Also offered is that Smith did not suffer seizures as a child or young woman. Robert S. Fisher, M.D of epilepsy.com has published a partial list of drugs that will actually cause seizures. Just a glance at his list shows that Smith was on some of the drugs that will cause seizures. Was she ever tested to see why she suffered seizures?

Eroshevich’s attorney Brad Brunon said Eroshevich acknowledges that “she could have done things differently and perhaps better.”

“Dr. Eroshevich accepts this and would rewrite history if she could,” said the motion, calling it her only inappropriate action in a 30-year medical career.

Either she lied to her attorney or he is lying. In 2007 columnist Roger Freidman was the first to expose the fact that Eroshevich had been fired from her job with a medical group because she farmed out the work instead of doing it herself.

Freidman also said,

We told you “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” paid her for interviews as part of a complex deal cooked up by Howard K. Stern. And then, on one of those shows, Eroshevich showed off another drug memo for Anna Nicole and bragged that she had administered all the drugs to the late Playboy Playmate herself.

If that was not an admission of guilt, I don’t know what is…

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