Gregory Chandler - United States v. Brown

An interesting case from the Fifth Circuit. In United States v. Brown, 553 F. 3d 768 (5th Cir. 2008) two pharmacists were convicted of conspiring with physicians to distribute large quantities of pain medications under cover of false prescriptions written by the physicians. Affirming, the Court found no abuse of discretion in the admission of a state trooper's testimony that he had pulled over a motorist who was under the influence of drugs, and found 39 bottles of pain medications (none bearing the motorist's name) that had labels from a defendant's pharmacy and listed one of the conspiring physicians as the prescriber. The bottles, their labels, and the circumstances of their discovery spoke to the defendant pharmacist's prescription-filling practices.


GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law