Judge Denies Request To Seize Licenses From Anna Nicole Smith Case

The two doctors facing trial for drug charges in association with Anna Nicole Smith's death in 2007 will not have their licenses suspended. The decision was made by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Wesley this past Friday. And the main reasoning for the decision? He said that the Medical Board of Colifornia should have not waited eight months until after the first charges were filed to ask for the suspension.````In addition to Howard K. Stern, Smith's boyfriend, Drs. khristine Eroshevich and Sandeep Kapoor face 23 felony charges, including three counts of conspiracy to dispense and administer controlled substances to a known addict. All defendants have pled not guilty and a trial date has been set for February, three years after Smith died of 'acute combined drug intoxication.'````At Friday's arraignment one of the state attorney general's lawyers, E.A. Jones III, requested the doctors be forced to stop practicing medicine, including surrendering of their prescription forms.````Judge Wesley said that they had not yet been convicted and also questioned why the medical board would wait three years to suggest that the doctors are a danger to public health. He also pointed out that the board could have taken it upon themselves to take lesser steps to monitor the doctors and their activities.