Howard K. Stern and two doctors pleaded not guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide the drugs that killed Anna Nicole Smith in 2007.
Stern, Smith’s reported boyfriend and lawyer, her physician Sandeep Kapoor, and her neighbor/psychiatrist Kristine Eroshevich entered the pleas in Los Angeles Superior. Defense attorneys believe the preliminary hearing will last at least two weeks, and they have filed a motion asking the case be dismissed. (Two weeks is long for a criminal trial, never mind a simple preliminary hearing…)
Prosecutors claim that the three conspired to use fake names to prescribe huge amounts of prescription drugs, including methadone, clonazepam and chloral hydrate, to an addict.
