From Donna Borton
A Michigan judge has ruled that two former pharmacists will be tried separatly on multiple second degree murder charges.
Following a hearing today Livingston County Circuit Judge James P. Hatty denied a motion by the state Attorney General calling for Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin to be tried together. Lawyers for both defendants opposed the motion.
The two have been charged with second degree murder in the deaths of 13 Michigan patients who had been injected with a steroid highly contaminated with deadly fungus. Those steroids came from the New England Compounding Center where both were employed.
In fact Cadden was president and part owner of NECC. Chin was a supervising pharmacist in the clean room where the deadly steroids were prepared.
Chin and Cadden's lawyers argued that a federal judge had concluded that the two had to be tried separately.
The two were ultimately acquitted by two separate federal juries of murder charges but were found guilty of racketeering and fraud charges.
Prosecutors argued that a joint trial was appropriate because many of the witnesses and much of the evidence against both defendants were the same.
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I’m sorry for the court because these trials will be a duplication of effort. However to clearly define one’s role will be imperative to a defense argument! I’m believing they will both be found guilty of their own specific roles in this medical massacre! I am in no way waiving their responsibilities for the far too numerous to mention lives they have crippled and left in ruin!
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