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Prescription forger seeks sentencing delay with forged doctor's note

By Douglas A. Berman

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From the "you can't make this stuff up" file come this local sentencing story from California, headlined "Woman in court for sentencing allegedly presents forged doctor's note, then collapses." Here are the particulars: A 41-year-old woman who was in court this morning to be sentenced for prescription drug forgery allegedly presented a forged doctor?s note in an attempt to delay the proceedings, and then collapsed when the judge ordered her back into custody, according to a prosecutor. Michelle Elaine Astumian, who had been out of jail after posting $45,000 bail, was scheduled to be sentenced today by Judge Barry LaBarbera to four years and eight months in state prison. She had pleaded no contest in January to two counts of forging a drug prescription and one count of using a fraudulent check...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).

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