Los Angeles District Attorney Renee Rose asserted, “There was a sexual relationship that happened in the past and possibly carrying into the future. It was the motive for Dr. Eroshevich to provide excessive medication to Anna Nicole Smith. There are ulterior motives for Dr. Eroshevich’s actions.”
According to his own statements, Louisiana psychologist and retired U.S. Army colonel Dr. Larry C. James played an influential role in both the policy and day-to-day operations of interrogations and detention at the prison camps. Publicly-available information shows that while Dr. James was at Guantanamo, abuse in interrogations was widespread, and cruel and inhuman treatment was official policy. Allegations of abuse during Dr. James’s January to May 2003 deployment include beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions.
Karadzic, who was captured in Belgrade last year after more than a decade on the run, faces 11 charges including two counts of genocide for allegedly masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the conflict from 1992 to 1995, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and slaughtered by Serb forces.
Psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin, both of the University of Arkansas, examined the evidence of any alleged role of psychologists in “creating, teaching and implementing torture practices.” They found psychologists did more than just develop and train others in “enhanced interrogation methods.”
It’s the first time a jury has considered claims that Glaxo, the U.K.’s largest drugmaker, knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid the risk to increase profits. Jurors in state court in Philadelphia deliberated about seven hours over two days before finding Glaxo failed to properly warn doctors and pregnant users of Paxil’s risk.
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