Howard K. Stern and Kristine Eroshevich, accused of contributing to Anna Nicole Smith’s drug related death, appeared before a LA court on Tuesday with their lawyers. Photo Credit: Splash NewsApril 07, 2009, (Sawf News) - Howard K. Stern and Kristine Eroshevich, accused of contributing to Anna Nicole Smith’s drug related death, appeared before a LA court on Tuesday with their lawyers.
Stern, Smith’s partner and lawyer, and Eroshevich, her neighbor and psychiatrist, told Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau that they were not ready to enter pleas. Lousteau continued their arraignment to May 13.
Speaking to the press, Steve Sadow, one of Stern’s three attorney, accused state Attorney General Jerry Brown of making baseless allegations against his client in a "blatant attempt to advance his own political career."
Stern, 40, and Eroshevich, 61, along with Smith’s doctor Sandeep Kapoor, 40, face felony charges for conspiracy to funnel powerful drugs that fed Anna Nicole Smith's addiction.
A day after the charges were filed last month, Brown singled out Stern as the "principal enabler:"
"This was a conspiracy between three individuals," Brown said, adding that Stern was "the one that brought the drugs in many cases to Anna Nicole Smith."
Sadow defended Stern saying, “He is innocent of the baseless allegations made against him in the criminal complaint.”
“Both Anna and Howard believed in their doctors and relied in good faith on their medical judgment,” he added.
Smith was "intelligent, strong and street smart," and "no one told her what to do and when to do it. No one enabled Anna Nicole Smith. She was her own person."
"Brown, not Howard K. Stern, is the real enabler in this misguided and unprecedented prosecution."
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