By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Lawyers and prosecutors met today with a circuit court judge to discuss setting a schedule in the trial of two former pharmacists charged with 11 counts of second degree murder.
Judge Michael Hatty set a tentative schedule for some 60 pending motions filed by James Buttrey, the attorney for Glenn Chin, and Gerald Gleeson for Barry J. Cadden. Also at the session was Assistant Attorney General Gregory Townsend, who is prosecuting the case.
Under the tentative schedule hearings will stretch over 240 days and an actual trial could come late next year. Another status conference will be held in three months. Among the motions filed are motions to dismiss the charges altogeher or to limit the testimony that will be allowed during the actual trial.
Chin and Cadden have been charged in the deaths of 11 patients who died after being injected with contaminated drugs produced at the New England Compounding Center, the defunct company blamed for the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak.
The session was held in Hatty's chambers and was not available for viewing on the internet as had been anticipated.
Hatty is expected to issue a formal order officially setting the hearing schedule.
The two defendants were bound over for trial last month by District Court Judge Shauna Murphy following extended hearings.
The murder charges were filed by former Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.
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