At least 1 jury in Las Vegas got it right as Dr.(?) Dipak (Dipshit) Desai and a nurse anesthetist were found guilty.
From the LVRJ: A jury Monday convicted Dr. Dipak Desai and nurse anesthetist Ronald Lakeman of criminal charges stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak, one of Southern Nevada’s biggest medical calamities.
Desai was found guilty of second-degree murder and 26 other counts related to the outbreak. Lakeman was found guilty of 16 counts, but not guilty on 11 other counts, including the murder charge involving the 2012 death of infected patient Rodolfo Meana.
District Judge Valerie Adair ordered both Desai and Lakeman jailed while they await their Sept. 5 sentencing.
Marshals handcuffed the two defendants and led them out of the courtroom. Dr. Kusum Desai, Desai’s wife, and their two daughters hugged each other and wept in the first row behind the defense table.
“I love you, Daddy,” said one of the sobbing daughters as Desai walked by. “God is with you. He’s always with you.”
Desai’s family members rarely missed a moment of the high-profile trial, often escorting him in and out of the courtroom and sometimes assisting his defense lawyers from the sidelines.
Desai, as he did throughout the trial, showed no emotion when the verdict was read. He faces a prison term of 10 years to life on the second-degree murder count alone.
Jurors, who endured nearly two months of testimony, primarily from 70 prosecution witnesses, had been deliberating since Friday. They returned the verdict about 4:30 p.m. after earlier reporting being deadlocked on some of the charges.
The verdict closed the book on one of the largest and most complicated investigations undertaken by Las Vegas police.
The investigation was launched in March 2008 after health officials disclosed the outbreak and urged some 64,000 patients to get tested for blood-borne viruses. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/guilty-verdicts-delivered-hepatitis-c-outbreak-trial
Hopefully, this Dr(?) will spend the rest of his life in jail and be fined millions of dollars for all the damages he has caused.
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