Closing Arguments In Anna Nicole Smith Drug Trial Begin Monday
Oct. 4 2010, Published 9:05 a.m. ET
Closing arguments in the drug conspiracy trial of three associates of the late Anna Nicole Smith will be heard in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
Smith’s former attorney Howard K. Stern, psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and medical internist Sandeep Kapoor are charged with conspiring to prescribe, administer and give substances to an addict. The prosecution rested its case last week and the defense made a bold decision by not putting on one witness.
Judge Robert Perry has been very critical of the District Attorney's case, and threw out several charges against Stern (including obtaining drugs for Smith by using tactics of fraud and deceit), as well as a conspiracy charge against Stern and Kapoor.
"I think there are weaknesses in the prosecution's case," Perry, who allowed 11 other counts to stand, said. "But my inclination is to let it go to the jury.