The fate of a doctor accused of secretly putting poison into IV bags is now in the hands of a jury.
The jury began deliberations at noon Thursday. The government closed its case by telling the jury Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz turned IV bags into poison bombs that exploded on unsuspecting patients.The 61-year-old is charged with five counts of tampering with a consumer product causing serious bodily injury and five counts of adulterating a drug.
"The government made it crystal clear they tied the counts charged with best video evidence of Dr. Ortiz handling the IV Bags," he said.The government said one of the poison bombs exploded on Dr. Melanie Kaspar. She was an anesthesiologist who worked at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare and took one of the IV bags home to treat herself after an illness. Her husband, John Kaspar, gave emotional testimony of how he was unable to revive her with CPR before paramedics arrived.
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