By Walter F. Roche Jr.
A hearing is scheduled for next week in the pending criminal case against two former pharmacists charged in the deaths of 11 Michigan victims of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
Livingston County Circuit Judge Michael Hatty has scheduled a status conference at 10 a.m. on Tuesday (Sept. 15) in the cases against Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin.
The cases were sent to Circuit Court by District Court Judge Shauna Murphy on Aug. 18 who found that there was probable cause to believe the two were responsible for the 11 deaths.
Next week's conference could result in the setting of a schedule for pre-trial motions and ultimately a jury trial. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the session will not be open to the public. Officials said they don't yet know whether the session will be accessible on-line.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company that shipped thousands of vials of conntaminated steroids to health care providers across the country. Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the NECC clean room where the fungus riddled methyilprednisolone acetate was produced.
The two were convicted in U.S. District Court in Boston with racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud but were cleared of second degree murder charges.
Cadden has begun serving a nine-year federal prison sentence while Chin was sentenced to eight-years.
The two are currently being held at the Livingston County Jail.
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