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Prosecutor Doesn’t Buy Dr. Desai’s Claimed Mental Impairment
Prosecutor says Desai’s statements, evaluations don’t add up.
By Paul Harasim
FROM THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
After Dr. Dipak Desai was found incompetent to face criminal charges stemming from a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak, the lead prosecutor again questioned whether Desai was feigning the severity of his impairment from two strokes.
Deputy District Attorney Michael Staudaher said nothing has changed since Desai entered his not guilty plea to felony charges, when he said through his attorneys that he understood the charges against him and was aware of the players in the case.
Yet two Las Vegas doctors found that Desai doesn’t understand the case against him, Staudaher said, and District Court Judge Jackie Glass delayed his March 14 trial indefinitely while he undergoes more testing in a state mental hospital.
“There has not been another medical event in his life,” Staudaher said Monday. “This doesn’t add up.”
Read the rest of the story at THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
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