She should absolutely be put on trial for playing with people's medical diagnoses. But that's not the crime she's been found guilty of yet, right?
Hopefully screwing around with medical tests will have much more serious consequences than stealing money. Hopefully this was just the first step, and having her in jail will prevent her from tampering with the evidence for the more serious crimes. Hopefully we live in a society that values lives more than money...
Was she? I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?
Like if you order some bullets from a gun shop, and the guy delivers them by doing a drive-by on your house, surely the only legal problem for the deliveryman can't be "these bullets were a ripoff, the gunpowder is already expended!"
> I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?
The bad diagnostic test in exchange for money is the essence of the fraud she was acquitted of, not some separate harm.
I mean, it's not impossible she could face state law claims about it separate from the federal ones, but any federal criminal claims from the same set of actions would be foreclosed now by double jeopardy (besides retrial on the charges that the jury hung on.)
Hopefully screwing around with medical tests will have much more serious consequences than stealing money. Hopefully this was just the first step, and having her in jail will prevent her from tampering with the evidence for the more serious crimes. Hopefully we live in a society that values lives more than money...