Jury begins deliberations in Anna Nicole case
LOS ANGELES, CA
After nine weeks of testimony and arguments, the panel of six
women and six men began considering 11 charges on Tuesday.
Jurors must decide whether the defendants provided excessive
opiates and sedatives to the former Playboy model knowing she was
an addict. Defense lawyers have said she was not an addict and the
medications were for pain.
Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich and Smith's
boyfriend Howard K. Stern have pleaded not guilty to charges
including prescribing under false names. They are not charged in
Smith's 2007 overdose death in Florida.
