The lawyer for a surgeon charged with prescribing excessive drugs to a disabled patient to speed up his death and harvest his organs says his client has been the subject of a "witch hunt."
Prosecutors in San Luis Obispo County said Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of San Francisco, gave a harmful drug and prescribed excessive doses of morphine and a sedative to 25-year-old Ruben Navarro, who died in 2006.
Prosecutors and a lawyer for Navarro's family contend Roozrokh told hospital staff, "Let's give him more candy," when referring to the drugs, reports CBS News correspondent Sandra Hughes....
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