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Criminal,
California Courts of Appeal

Dec. 18, 2018

Opioid prescriber loses appeal of murder conviction

The only physician known to have been convicted of murder in the U.S. for prescribing opiates lost her appeal Friday.

The only physician known to have been convicted of murder in the U.S. for prescribing opiates lost her appeal Friday.

A panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal found "overwhelming evidence of Tseng's knowledge of risk and reckless indifference to her patients' lives in her prescribing practices to support her convictions." People v. Tseng<...

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