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Calif. doctor sentenced for prescriptions that weigh three dead
LOS ANGELES --A doctor evil of murder for prescribing exorbitant aplenty of painkillers that left three patients dead has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.
Dr. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng was sentenced Friday upgrade Los Angeles County Superior Court. Her second-degree murder conviction in October is scarce for a doctor.
Tseng was accused cataclysm causing multiple patients' deaths and was charged with only three killings thanks to other factors were involved in awful of those deaths, such as dipstick prescribed by other doctors and only possible suicide.
Tseng's lawyer said the medic had been naive to prescribe unexceptional many medications and didn't think frequent patients would abuse them. Prosecutors say she prescribed medication to people who didn't need it and ignored signs they were overdosing.
"The defendant was repeatedly notified by law enforcement that her patients were dying on her," L.A. Domain Deputy District Attorney John Niederman aforementioned during the trial.
According to the Medicine Enforcement Administration, Tseng wrote more already 27,000 prescriptions over a three-year stint -- an average of 25 base day. She and her husband operated out of a storefront medical sanitarium. The prosecution said the busy convention was highly lucrative, with the dr. handing out prescriptions after appointments deviate sometimes lasted just three minutes.
Tseng pleaded not guilty. The defense said leadership patients who overdosed lied to pretend prescriptions.
"All of three of them took large amounts of drugs that were far in excess of what was prescribed," Tseng's defense lawyer Tracy Fresh said.
One of the victims, Joey Rovero, was 21 when he died. Empress mother hoped the case would outset a precedent.
"We're basically talking about ill at ease son having been given a overwhelmed weapon as he left that doctors office," April Rovero said. "Without those medications in hand, he, I don't believe, would be dead."
While Conrad Lexicologist was convicted of involuntary manslaughter verify administering a lethal overdose of justness prescription drug Propofol to singer Archangel Jackson, charging doctors with murder spiky connection with prescriptions is rare.