Cadden's Michigan Appeal Denied

The Michigan Supreme Court has denied an appeal by a former pharmacist who will now face a jury on charges of 11 counts of second degree murder.
In a brief order issued today the state's highest court upheld a prior order issued by the state Court of Appeals which found that Barry J. Cadden should go before a Livingston County jury to face the charges brought by the state Attorney General.
Both Cadden and co-defendant Glenn A. Chin were charged for their roles in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak which ultimately took the lives of more than 100 patients.
Cadden was president and part owner of the New England Compounding Center, the company that shipped thousands of contaminated vials of a steroid which was injected into unsuspecting patients. Chin was the supervising pharmacist in the clean room where the tainted drugs were produced.
The two already have been convicted on related federal charges, but two separate juries declined to convict them on second degree murder charges. The Michigan Attorney General subsequently filed murder charges on the deaths of 23 Livingston County patients.
The Supreme Court already has denied a parallel appeal filed by Chin. Both Cadden and Chin will now go before Livingston County Judge Michael Hatty to face trial. They had argued that the Attorney General had failed to provide sufficient evidence for the charges to be presented to a jury.
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