Action Stepping Up In Cadden, Chin MI Cases

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

With all their appeals denied, action is expected to step up in Livingston County Michigan in the criminal trials of two former pharmacists charged with 13 counts of second degree murder.
A status conference before Livingston County Judge Michael P. Hatty has been scheduled for July 15 in the cases of Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin.
At that session it is likely that a rough timetable will be sketched out for further pre-trial sessions and, finally for the cases to be presented to a jury.
Cadden and Chin were charged by the Michigan Attorney General for their roles in the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. All 13 victims had been injected with steroids produced at the New England Compounding Center. Cadden was president and part owner of NECC while Chin was a supervisory pharmacist in the cleanroom where the drugs, tainted with deadly fungi, were produced.
Both Cadden and Chin filed a series of appeals arguing that the cases never should have been bound over for a jury trial due to a lack of evidence.
Both the state Court of Appeals and the state Supreme Court denied those appeals.
For victims of the outbreak and their families news that the cases are finally moving forward is very much good news.
"This trial can not get started soon enough as far as I am concerned. It has been delayed way too long and we need to have closure one way or the other," said Donna Borton, whose husband was a victim and is still recovering."
"So happy that the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled the trial can proceed," she added.
The July 15 session is scheduled for 10 a.m.in Hatty's Michigan courtroom.
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