Los Angeles:
Convictions were handed out Thursday to Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern and her psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich. Smith's doctor, Sandeep Kapoor was acquitted on all charges.
Stern was convicted on one count for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was convicted conspiracy and for unlawfully prescribing Vicodin by fraud.
The defendants were charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict, and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names.
The jury was asked to decide if the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith's emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.
They were not charged in Smith's 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida
Stern was convicted on one count for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was convicted conspiracy and for unlawfully prescribing Vicodin by fraud.
The defendants were charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict, and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names.
The jury was asked to decide if the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith's emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs.
They were not charged in Smith's 2007 accidental overdose death in Florida
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