United States v. Schneider

O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the United States from a pre-trial order issued in the prosecution of Stephen and Linda Schneider (the Schneiders). A thirty-four count indictment charged the Schneiders with, among other things, impermissibly dispensing controlled drugs at their family-owned clinic resulting in the deaths of numerous patients. Count 5 of the indictment charged the Schneiders with illegally distributing drugs to eighteen patients, resulting in death. The target of the government’s appeal is the district court’s order excluding evidence of all but one…