Cadden, Chin Apppeals Denied Again

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

For the second time the Michigan Court of Appeals has denied the petitions of Glenn Chin and Barry Cadden to have their 13 second degree murder charges efectively thrown out.
In a one paragraph order issued Wednesday the court ruled that the appeals lacked merit "on the grounds presented".
The two are facing the charges brought by the Michigan Attorney General for their roles in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak which ultimately took the lives of 100 patients.
The two worked for the New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts company that shipped thousands of vials of contaminated steroids to health facilities across the country.
The case was sent back to the Appeals Court for reconsideration last month by the state Supreme Court. The brief decision cited a 2003 case in which a mother faced murder charges in the death of her child. The appeals panel had already rejected the appeal in a terse one paragraph decision.
Lawyers for Cadden and Chin had argued that there was insufficient evidence for the charges to be sent to a jury.
Chin's lawyers had argued that prosecutors had failed to identify a single act by Chin that caused the deaths of 13 Michigan residents, who died after being injected with fungus laden preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate.
Cadden was president and part owner of the the now defunct NECC. Chin was the pharmacist in charge of the clean room where the contaminated drugs were prepared.
Barring another appeal to the Supreme Court, the case will now go back to Livingston County for trial. Contact: wfrochejr999@gmail.com