Judge will bar link to Anna Nicole Smith death
July 30, 2010 4:37 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The judge in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith’s doctors and lawyer-boyfriend says he will bar all evidence linking the defendants to Smith’s fatal drug overdose.
Superior Court Judge Robert Perry said during a pretrial hearing Friday that he fears they cannot get a fair trial if attorneys focus on Smith’s cause of death. He also says he doesn’t understand why the case was not filed in Florida, where the former Playboy model died in 2007.
The defendants are accused of illegally providing Smith with opiates and sedatives. Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard Stern have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to illegally prescribe drugs.
