A Shasta County physician who once faced multiple counts of murder and other felonies as part of an alleged drug-dealing conspiracy was found not guilty late Tuesday of the remaining charges against him, ending a high- profile case seen as a test of the ability of doctors to treat patients with chronic pain.
Dr. Frank B. Fisher, 50, was acquitted of charges that he had defrauded the state Medi-Cal system -- the only criminal charges that hadn't already been dropped -- by a Shasta County Superior Court jury after a two-week trial in Redding.
"I feel a profound sense of relief," Fisher said.
The prosecution essentially destroyed the Harvard-trained doctor's life and career and was an "unmitigated disaster" for many of his patients. And now it looks like he'd done nothing wrong. Details here from the San Francisco Chronicle.