Some items seized in raids of Smith docs turned over to LA court
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ Associated Press Writer
Article Launched: 10/17/2007 04:21:10 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES—California authorities have turned over to a court some of the items seized from Anna Nicole Smith’s former doctors in raids last week.
Wednesday’s handover is standard procedure following searches involving doctors and others with privileged information, said Sandi Gibbons, a district attorney spokeswoman.
After a medical professional’s office is searched, a special master appointed by the court reviews the items and helps ensure authorities didn’t seize materials, privileged or otherwise, not covered by the warrant. The doctors’ attorneys will have the opportunity to challenge the seizure of these items.
California Department of Justice agents brought boxes containing some of the items to the Los Angeles court of Judge Larry Paul Fidler, a court official said. A hearing in the matter was tentatively scheduled Dec. 5.
On Friday state agents raided the office of Smith’s psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, as well as the home and office of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who prescribed the painkiller methadone to Smith shortly before her February death from an overdose. She was 39.
Messages left with attorneys for Eroshevich and Kapoor and with a Justice Department spokesman were not immediately returned.
State Attorney General Jerry Brown has said his office began investigating Kapoor and Eroshevich after he discovered the two combined to prescribe more than a dozen drugs in the days before Smith’s died in a Florida hotel.
He has declined to speculate on what charges the doctors might face if it is determined they improperly prescribed drugs.
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Yes, trash is treasure to cunning celebrity sellers. After seeing Anna Nicole Smith throw memorabilia out as trash, a quick-thinking neighbour swooped in and snapped up two diaries the deceased celeb wrote in during 1992 and 1994.
In April of 2007, just weeks after a German businessman paid US$500,000 at auction for the journals, an unnamed buyer picked up the items for an undisclosed price on eBay. His goal: to resell the items in Dallas, Texas, Smith’s native state, and spin even more cash out of the tragic woman’s belongings.