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CRNA Defense Lawyer Seeks Delay In Nevada Hep C Propofol Trial
The attorney for 74 y/o CRNA Keith H. Mathahs wants more time to obtain discovery before trial…which is currently scheduled for March 14th. The Judge is not amused.
Lawyer presses for delay in trial of nurses connected to hepatitis C outbreak
By Jeff German
FROM THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
A courtroom tongue-lashing from a district judge has not stopped defense attorney Michael Cristalli from seeking to delay the March 14 trial of two nurse anesthetists charged in the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
Cristalli, who represents one of the nurses, Keith Mathahs, filed a motion Friday to continue the trial, arguing that District Judge Donald Mosley was wrong to deny his request at a stormy hearing two days earlier.
Mosley accused Cristalli at the hearing of not being prepared and trying to “manufacture” a delay in the long-scheduled trial, which the judge ordered to move forward without the lead defendant, Dr. Dipak Desai, who has been found incompetent.
But in his court papers, Cristalli said Mosley was under the “mistaken belief” that the lawyer had not been diligently reviewing the tens of thousands of pages of evidence previously handed over in the case.
Read the rest of the story here: THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Lawyer presses for delay in trial of nurses connected to hepatitis C outbreak
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By Jeff German
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
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