Stern & doctors slapped with felony charges - bail is 20 000
By now everyone has heard the news that long time Anna Nicole Smith 'companion' Howard K Stern has turned himself in, and is under arrest. Stern, along with a pair of ANS doctors (Dr Khristine Eroshevich and Dr Sandeep Kapoor are accused of illegally supplying the troubled starlet with a plethora of prescription medications. At the time people believed he may have deliberately offed his companion. Though they did have a rocky relationship, they had just had a 'commitment ceremony', and Stern had been named guardian of her infant daughter Dannilynn. Smith was also still quarrelling fort about 500 million from her late husband - the 90 year old oil billionaire. So the was plenty of motive for Stern to do something nasty.
Who's your daddy?
When Anna Nicole Smith died unexpectedly just shy of her 40th birthday, the finger of suspicion pointed fairly directly at Stern. Smith's son Daniel had died only months before at he age of 19. An autopsy indicated that he'd died from a prescription medication reaction - excepted some of those meds were believed to have been supplied by Stern. Stern was even witnessed flushing pills down the toilet while young Daniel was in hospital. Even Smith her self at one point accused Stern of 'killing' her son. He was now next in line to the loot, after Anna herself and the girl who Anna herself had legally declared his daughter. Although she may have meant accidentally. Stern could be pretty free with the pills.
That's what's led him in to trouble this time. The question isn't whether Stern wanted her dead, but whether he is legally responsible for her death through illegal activities. The exact nature of the charges is that the pair of doctors - who are also under arrest - knowingly misprescribed meds for Anna Nicole, and that Stern procured them illegally, under his own name, and then passed them on to Smith (Many of the pills found after her death were actually prescribed in his name). Since this is illegal, and resulted in Smith's death, Stern is facing some pretty heavy charges. Those charges may have nothing to do with whether Stern deliberately killed her to get the loot - although their are many people who believe that her helped her on her way with money in mind. They seem merely based on the fact that Smith died as a result of Stern's illegal actions. That can lead to a range of charges like manslaughter, criminal negligence, and one of the lesser homicide charges. Depending what kind of a package prosecutors put together against him, and what they can make stick, that can result in just as much time behind bars as if he held a gun to her head, while holding her check book in the other hand. Of course we know that the doctors will provide some very cooperative testimony, to get themselves off the hook. That further points the finger of culpability at Mr Stern. It looks like that fellow is in a world of trouble.
Now for Howard K, Adnan Ghalib, Bernie Madoff, and all those other hi profile lawbreakers - whether accused or convicted, here's a little music video dedication done on location at San Quentin Prison.
... and here's another litle one, a true classic.
Some bad news and some good news for our little jail birds: I hear that prison's are switching back to black and white stripes for their uniforms (see CBS 48 Hours' "Picture Perfect" episode), the good news, the art of the escape tunnel is coming back with a vengeance.
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