Criminal Law/Medical Malpractice: Court Strikes down Murder Conviction of Physician Where Inappropriate Care Led to Patient's Death

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207 F.3d 1222 (10th Cir. 2000).

Id. at 1232.

Id. at 1234.

Id. at 1237, citing Fed. R. Evid. 403.

See Van Grunsven

P.R.

, “Medical Malpractice or Criminal Mistake?: An Analysis of Past and Current Criminal Prosecutions for Clinical Mistakes and Fatal Errors,” DePaul Journal of Health Care Law, Fall 1997, at 48–49.

See BNA Health Law Reporter 9 (2000) 523–524.

See, for example, BNA Health Law Reporter, id. at 523; Alpers

, “Criminal Act or Palliative Care? Prosecutions Involving the Care of the Dying,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 26 (1998) at 308.