HOORAY! CNN just announced that the doctors charged with murder of hospital patients during hurricane Katrina are exonerated. The Grand Jury has refused to indict the doctors.
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Memorial Doctor
Louisiana Attorney General's Office Still Considers Deaths To Be Homicides
POSTED: 10:36 am CDT July 24, 2007
UPDATED: 11:59 am CDT July 24, 2007
NEW ORLEANS -- An Orleans Parish grand jury has declined to indict a doctor accused of killing patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Last year, state Attorney General Charles Foti claimed Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses killed four people with a "lethal cocktail" at Memorial Medical Center. The four were among at least 34 who died at the sweltering, flooded hospital in the days following Katrina.
Jordan's office declined to prosecute nurses Lori Budo and Cheri Landry after they testified in the investigation.
Pou, who has been free on bond, was never formally charged. She's planning to hold a news conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday, which WDSU.com will carry live online.
Supporters rallied for Pou late last week, and the doctor filed suit against the Louisiana attorney general on Monday. In it, she accuses him of using her arrest to fuel his re-election bid.
After Tuesday, announcement, assistant attorney general Julie Cullen said Foti was "very proud of everyone and their efforts on behalf of the victims and their families."
Cullen also said investigators in her office still consider the deaths to be homicides.
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