Howard K Stern and Dr Khristine Eroshevich Arraignment Delayed

And so begins the official finger pointing and blame game regarding California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s decision to pursue felony drug charges against Howard K. Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.

Brown made the announcement on October 13th, 2007 that he would be investigating prescribing practices associated with the death of Anna Nicole Smith when he raided the doctors offices and then again raided Dr. Kapoors office in search of a Howard K. Stern connection on February 5th, 2009. Warrants for the arrest of Stern, Kapoor and Eroshevich were issued March 13th, 2009.  

Now that charges have been brought, attorneys for Stern are citing political aspirations. Brown said the accusations are “silly” and “completely out of line.”

“The fact is that the Bureau of Narcotics, the DEA, the state Board of Medical Examiners and the Los Angeles district attorney have all validated this prosecution,” Brown said in a telephone interview. “These are serious violations of the law, this is an extensive professional investigation.”

I suspect and hope this investigation will also eventually include the death of Anna Nicole’s son Daniel Smith who died in the Bahamas mere hours after he arrived there to meet his new baby sister.

Cause of death has been stated in the press as an accidental overdose of a mixture of drugs.  But according to witnesses at the coroners inquest there was compelling testimony and evidence that Daniel died from a massive methadone overdose.

Dr. W. Lee Hearn, Miami Florida Toxicology expert who examined Daniels remains said  that Daniel was not a drug user and the overdose was not an accident but intentional. However Daniel certainly did not commit suicide.

Dr Hearn said, “if not for the methadone, Daniel Smith would not have died.” The Magistrate told the jury to come back with a verdict of suicide or non-dependent drug use. Suicide was ruled out.

The death of Daniel Wayne Smith deserves a second look.

Howard K. Stern and Khristine Eroshevich appeared in a Los Angeles criminal court on Tuesday April 7th, to request their arraignment to be re-scheduled for May 13th the original date so as to have time to conduct discovery.

Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur’s attorney Neil McCabe was scheduled to appear down the street at 10:30am to argue why Bonnie Stern’s bankruptcy stay should be lifted. A maneuver that McCabe has said in court documents was orchestrated so Ms. Stern did not have to turn over her computer in Arthur’s defamation and conspiracy suit against her and other individuals including her brother Howard.

Representing his client, McCabe was able to attend what was scheduled to be the arraignment of Stern and Eroshevich. I asked Mr. McCabe what he thought about the short hearing. He said it was uneventful and pretty much what the public saw on television. He said Howard K. Sterns attorney Krista Barth and also his former PI John Nazarian were cordial and greeted him. However, McCabe took a seat behind Stern and his attorney’s before the hearing started and Stern’s criminal attorney asked McCabe to move so he would not overhear anything.

After the arraignment hearing was over, McCabe headed down the street and argued that the stay imposed on his client Virgie Arthur’s lawsuit by Bonnie Stern’s bankruptcy be lifted. The judge told Mr. McCabe that it was a close call, but ordered from the bench to lift the stay.

When asked about the possibility of an appeal McCabe said, “When we submit an order to lift the stay, Ms. Stern has 7 days to object to the form. When it is signed, she has 10 days to file a notice of appeal.”

Now that the stay has been lifted, a hearing on Howard K. Sterns motion to recuse the judge in Arthur’s defamation case can go forward.
Arthur_vs_Stern_etal_Recusal_Hearing_Notice.pdf

Defendant Art Harris has joined with Howard K. Stern to recuse the judge in Arthur vs Stern et al.

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