Fall trial set for pharmacist in 11 Michigan meningitis deaths after plea deal talks fizzle
A fall trial has been set for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A judge set a fall trial Friday for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents who died in a 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroids from a Massachusetts lab.
Efforts by Glenn Chin and state prosecutors to reach a plea bargain “have been unsuccessful,” said Livingston County Judge Matthew McGivney, who set jury selection for Nov. 4.
Michigan is the only state to charge Chin and Barry Cadden, an executive at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, for deaths related to the outbreak.
More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other debilitating illnesses, and dozens died as a result of tainted steroids shipped to pain clinics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
