Last Cadden/Chin Hearing on You-Tube

By Walter F. Roche Jr.


The public will not be allowed in the courtroom, but the final pre-trial hearing in the second degree murder trial of two former pharmacists will be broadcast on You-Tube, according to a one-page order from a Livingston County Michigan judge.
The order from District Court Judge Shauna N. Murphy sets a June 11 deadline for prosecutors and defense attorneys to agree on a date for the final pre-trial session. Under the order Murphy will decide by June 24 whether Barry J. Cadden and Glenn A. Chin will be bound over for trial on 11 counts of second degree murder.
Murphy's order limits the oral arguments in the final session to issues not already addressed in what she termed "voluminous documents" already filed by both sides.
The session had been re-scheduled for May 21 after several prior postponements but was delayed yet again due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Chin and Cadden were connected to the New England Compounding Center, a defunct drug firm blamed for the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak which ultimately killed over 100 patients. That includes the 11 patients Cadden and Chin are charged with killing. The two are now imprisoned at the Livingston County Jail.
Noting the ongoing coronavirus pangenic, Murphy said it would not be possible for the public to attend the hearing and, she said, a two-way interactive system would not be available.
According to her order the session will be available on You-Tube livestream through the court website www.livgov.com/courts.
adden was president and part-owner of NECC and Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the cleanroom where thousands of vials of a fungus laden steroid were prepared.
The two are charged in the deaths of 11 Michigan victims: Jennie Barth, Patricia Malafouris, Ruth Madouse, Donna Kruzich, Paula Brent, Lyn Laperriere, Sally Roe, Mary Plettl, Gayle Gibson, Emma Todd and Karine Baxter.
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