Legal Opinion
United States v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 18, 2008No. 05-20997PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
The appellants were pharmacists who were convicted of illegally conspiring with doctors to distribute large quantities of medicines under cover of false prescriptions written by the doctors.
A hung jury ended their first trial. In a second trial the appellants were convicted of the charged crimes. All defendants timely appealed.
I. BACKGROUND AND FACTS
In 2002, a Texas doctor, Dr. Callie Her-pin, then working at a pediatrics clinic, met Isaac Achobe, who owned and operated a pharmacy in her building. Herpin had grown tired of the rigors of practice, and…
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