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4 unusual facts about Anna Pou case


Anna Pou case

State Attorney General Charles Foti announced the arrests the next day, at a widely televised news conference.

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Charles Foti lost the 2007 election for state Attorney General after criticism for prosecuting Pou and the nurses.

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University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan also stated that all nine of the deaths were homicides; the administration of the drugs was "not consistent with the ethical standards of palliative care that prevail in the United States," precisely in that the death of a patient must not be the goal of a doctor's treatment; and death, in his opinion, was the goal in these in cases.

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In 2006, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti arrested Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses, publicly stating that "this is a homicide".



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