By Walter F. Roche Jr.
A former druggist, charged with 11 counts of second degree murder, has filed an appeal with Michigan's highest court in a last ditch effort to have those murder charges thrown out.
The appeal to the Supreme Court seeks to have a recent decision by the state Appeals Court overturned. That court early last month once again turned down Cadden's motion to have the murder charges dismissed.
Both Cadden and Chin contend that prosecutors in the state Attorney General's office did not provide sufficient evidence to have the charges presented to a Livingston County jury.
The charges stem from Cadden and Chin's involvement in a now defunct Massachusetts drug compounding firm which shipped thousands of vials of contaminated drugs to healthcare providers across the country. Eleven of those vials were injected into the spines of Livingston County patients who subsequently died.
Cadden was president and part owner of the drug compounding firm, the New England Compounding Center. Chin was the supervising pharmacist in the company's clean room where the tainted drugs were prepared.
Today's filing is the latest development in what has become a ping pong match between the state's two highest courts.
The appeals court has now rejected Cadden's pleas for the third time.
Chin is expected to file a similar motion to the Supreme Court.
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