Nathalie Maullin was to continue her testimony Tuesday as prosecutors sought to show that the celebrity model was addicted to painkillers supplied by defendants in a drug case. Maullin took the stand Monday after a disruption in the testimony of star witness Larry Birkhead resulted in the disappearance from the courtroom of a member of the prosecution team.
Photos: Anna Nicole Smith. District attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said the future role of Deputy District Attorney Sarah Slice was under discussion after Birkhead, the father of Smith's daughter, testified that she tried to influence his testimony.
He said the young prosecutor suggested he was "taking the side" of Smith's former boyfriend, lawyer Howard K. Birkhead said Slice also warned him his daughter might have future problems because of her mother's drug use.
Birkhead said Slice told him prosecutors were "frustrated" with his testimony in the preliminary hearing, which will decide whether Stern and two doctors stand trial. They are charged with conspiracy to illegally give controlled substances to the former Playboy Playmate, who died of an accidental overdose in She said Smith had decided to "go cold turkey" and stop all drugs when she became pregnant, resulting in withdrawal. She said Smith came to the hospital in distress, sweating, having spasms in her arms and legs and with her eyes dilated.
Maullin said she contacted Smith's physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, one of those now charged in the case, and learned he had prescribed seven different drugs to Smith during the time she was seeking relief from pain. Maullin said she suggested a new regimen including hypnosis and acupuncture but Smith wasn't interested.
She didn't make eye contact. She was very hostile," Maullin recalled. Stern "facilitated" the prescriptions, sometimes calling the doctors and picking them up from the pharmacy, Rose said. He was motivated by the millions he would gain if she won a court battle against her deceased husband's heirs, Rose said. Anna Nicole Smith's appearance on the American Music Awards telecast showed how she was affected by the drugs, she said.
Jurors watched a video clip which opened with Smith asking, "Like my body? Smith was not a drug addict, Sadow said. She sought the medications for "real pain, constant pain, chronic pain. Stern, who is a lawyer but not a doctor, "relied on the good faith of the medical judgment of the doctors," Sadow said. It could not be a conspiracy because Stern did not know it was wrong or that using false names on prescriptions was illegal, Sadow said.
But Kapoor has said he never met Eroshevich while both were treating Smith. Testimony indicated Eroshevich began her relationship with Smith as a friend and neighbor. Botello said that made it doubly important that she separate the personal and medical relationships while prescribing drugs. Testimony suggested that Eroshevich was trying to help Smith recover from the death of her son, Daniel, when she began prescribing sedatives.
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