Kristen Diane Parker Charges Dropped: Judge Drops 20 Charges As Part Of Plea Deal

DENVER — A federal judge has dismissed 28 charges against a surgery technician as part of an agreement with prosecutors in the case where the woman admitting to tampering with medications that resulted in three dozen people contracting hepatitis C.

Kristen Diane Parker was to be sentenced to 20 years in prison last month in a plea deal with prosecutors but a judge said it was not enough time. Parker renewed her guilty plea Feb. 5 and is expected to be sentenced Feb. 24 on five counts of tampering with a consumer product and five counts of obtaining a controlled substance by deceit or subterfuge.

A judge dismissed several related charges Thursday at the request of prosecutors.

Parker, who has hepatitis C, says she injected herself with painkiller-filled syringes and replaced them with ones filled with saline while she worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver and the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs.

Comments

[Jazz88105]

03:50 PM on 02/14/2010

how much time will she get?

[Mrs Norman]

01:12 AM on 02/14/2010

This woman should get the book thrown at her. Why in the world would prosecutors recommend or offer a plea in a case such as this...so now everyone who's mad at the world can resort to anous, vile,premeditated methods of lashing out at innocent people, now that they know they can surface from the corruption of the judicial system with just a slap on the wrist. Mouth wide open W O W. Makes me wonder...who "does" she know....S.M.H.