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Last month we learned that Howard K. Stern had been arrested on charges that he and two doctors conspired to furnish drugs to the late Anna Nicole Smith before her death in 2007. Yesterday, Stern showed up in court NOT to enter a plea on the charges leveled against him but to petition the court to postpone his arraignment until next month (how very Chris Brown of him). Altho Stern had nothing to say inside the courthouse, his lawyer had much to say to the media outside on the courthouse steps:

A defense attorney used the courthouse steps Tuesday for a blistering attack against the California attorney general for bringing conspiracy charges against his client, Howard K. Stern, in the Anna Nicole Smith case. Stern, Smith’s longtime partner and attorney, appeared before a judge Tuesday on charges of conspiring with two doctors to provide drugs to Smith before her fatal overdose in 2007. He did not enter a plea but agreed to an arraignment date next month. Declaring Stern “innocent of baseless charges,” attorney Steve Sadow said after the short hearing that “no one enabled Anna.” “Anna made her own choices and decisions,” Sadow said. “No one told her what to do and when to do it.” California Attorney General Jerry Brown responded that Sadow’s “rhetoric is just smoke and mirrors, and is completely out of line.” “The fact is that the Bureau of Narcotics, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Los Angeles district attorney have all validated this prosecution,” Brown said in a statement to CNN. “These people are whistling in the dark if they think this accusatory rhetoric is going to save them.” Stern, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were charged last month in California with several felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 through January 2007, only weeks before Smith’s death. Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being discovered unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Florida. A coroner said she died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. In announcing the charges last month, Brown said the doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed “thousands of pills.” The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star was drugged “almost to the point of stupefaction,” Brown said … Sadow said Stern relied on the “good judgment” of Smith’s doctors to prescribe drugs for “valid and legitimate medical reasons.” “Howard loved Anna with all of his heart and would never have done anything intentional to harm her,” Sadow said. Officials said that both prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Smith’s system, including three antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs. Human growth hormone and chloral hydrate, a sleep medication, also were found in toxicology tests, officials said. Kapoor and Eroshevich also were charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.” And each was charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address, prosecutors said. Eroshevich, who was also in court, did not enter a plea … Kapoor was not in court, and his attorney did not speak. The case for all three defendants was set for another hearing May 13.

It is my personal belief that Anna Nicole Smith was drugged at pretty much all times … anyone who remembers what she was like EVERY SINGLE TIME she ever spoke — whether it be on her E! TV series or when she posted videos online or when she walked outside her front door — will prolly remember that she often had difficulty even speaking coherent sentences. To be honest, I was shocked that she managed to give birth to little Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead without incident. There is no way that a woman that heavily drugged could be able to procure all of the medication she needed to stay, as Brown contends, “stupefied”. I never trusted Howard K. Stern in terms of his relationship with Anna Nicole. He entered her life when she began fighting for the billions of dollars that her 89+ year old tycoon husband J. Howard Marshall (of 10 minutes) left her in his will and he stayed with her to the bitter end, IMHO, hoping to enjoy a big pay off one day. The notion that he “loved” and “cared” for Anna Nicole Smith is laughable to me … but, these are just my opinions. Sadly, I didn’t bat an eyelash when it was reported that drugs were involved at all in Anna Nicole‘s death … nor did I flinch when I learned that Howard K. Stern was with her. I sincerely hope the truth comes out and that the guilty parties are made to pay for their crimes. Karma has a funny way of working itself out.

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