The case against Ohio doctor charged with killing 25 patients may hinge on his colleagues if he invokes the Fifth Amendment
One of the largest murder cases in Ohio history, involving a doctor accused of killing 25 patients, will hinge on his colleagues' cooperation and what they can offer up at trial, legal experts say.
Many of those patients were in failing health and not alert when they came under Husel's care, so"there would be no legitimate medical reason to administer" powerful painkillers, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said Wednesday.
O'Brien said Wednesday that he did not expect others to be criminally charged in the case, and that there was a clear chain of command in which the doctor"issues an order, a nurse takes medicine from a machine, and either that nurse or another administers" the drug on the doctor's behalf.
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