By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 18 – A major opioids jury trial is set to begin on January 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Inner City Press will cover the trial.
Laurence F. Doud III, the former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-operative, was indicted in 2019, and the case was assigned to District Judge George B. Daniels, while will preside over the trial.
On January 16, two days before jury selection, Doud's lawyer Robert C. Gottlieb wrote to Judge Daniels to oppose admission of the testimony of Barbara Castro, an opioids addict.
Assistant US Attorneys Thomas Burnett, Nicolas Roos and Alexandra Rothman had indicated they intend to call Castro "as early as Tuesday, January 18, 2022, in the afternoon."
But Day 1 went long. Inner City Press live tweeted, some here:
AUSA accusing Team Doud of putting the US on trial.
First US witness against Doud is a former DEA agent, now working in a different job in Virginia. "I dealt with the registrants in the field."
Assistant US Attorney: What did you do in that role? Witness: I was the chief. I went to industry sponsored conferences
AUSA: What is Subsys? Witness: An opioid spray for break-through pain. AUSA: Fentanyl? Witness: Yes. It's very dangerous. AUSA: What's this? Witness: A bottle of Oxy.
AUSA: What's this? Witness: A chart showing the supply chain... It shows how the drug gets from the manufacturer to the user. Inner City Press
It's approaching 4:30 pm and Doud's lawyer's cross continues (still no user as Inner City Press reported on yesterday)
Defense: Do you agree that a distributor has no way to know if a pharmacy's info is accurate & has no obligation to investigate a prescription?
Defense confronts witness with prior testimony, then asks: Isn't it the case the distributors often use outside consultants to conduct investigations? Witness: Yes...
The case is US v. Doud, 19-cr-285 (Daniels)
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