A West Virginia doctor will get a new trial on criminal charges stemming from his allegedly unlawful opioid prescribing activities because of “government overkill” in presenting witnesses who testified about uncharged crimes, the Fourth Circuit said Friday.
The witnesses’ testimony wasn’t necessary to “complete the story of the crime on trial,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in reversing Felix Brizuela’s conviction for unlawfully distributing controlled substances.
Brizuela is a board-certified neurologist who treated patients in Morgantown and Weirton, W. Va. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating him after receiving multiple complaints about his prescribing ...
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