By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a former pharmacist's appeal of a 10.5 year sentence for his role in the 2012 fungal menngitis outbreak.
The high court listed Chin's appeal in a routine listing of dozens of cases being denied the right to pursue an appeal.
Chin, 54, was a supervising pharmacist at the now defunct New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts company blamed for the deadly fungal menningitis outbreak. The outbreak eventually killed over 100 people.
Chin was the supervising pharmacist in the clean room where the fungus laden steroids were prepared.
Chin had appealed charging that two so-called sentence enhancements should not have been applied to him.
Chin had originally been sentenced to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns, but the 1st Circuit Court of appeals ruled that Stearns had been too lenient.
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