http://www.rosespeaks.com/rose-blog/2009/10/20/is-slice-diced-drugs-money-and-sex-day-six-of-the-anna-nicole-smith-preliminary-hearing/

I just went in and corrected the name on those 2 post but they showed the name like that because you typed it in there. Next time if you aren’t logged in just type the first name and that should take care of the problem.

Looking at the time of those post…. I was sound asleep by then and not anywhere near a computer. Sorry it took so long to get it corrected.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6675609.html
LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor who was accused of trying to intimidate one of the star witnesses in the Anna Nicole Smith drug case was absent from the courtroom Monday afternoon, and the district attorney’s office said her further role in the case was under discussion.
Larry Birkhead, father of the celebrity model’s daughter, disclosed from the witness stand that Sarah Slice, the young prosecutor who had been escorting him to and from court, had given him advice about his testimony and warned that his daughter might have problems in later life because of her late mother’s drug use.
“I felt I personally did my best and I was being chastised,” he said under questioning by defense attorney Ellyn Garofalo.
Birkhead said Slice told him prosecutors were “frustrated” because he appeared to be taking the side of Howard K. Stern in the preliminary hearing which will decide whether Stern and two doctors stand trial.
Stern — Smith’s former boyfriend — and two doctors are charged with conspiracy to illegally give controlled substances to the former Playboy Playmate, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007.
Birkhead, who ended his two-day stay on the witness stand, said he felt he was being pressured by Slice to “ramp up” his testimony against the defendants.
He said the prosecutor’s remarks — followed by a text message after he got home — made him upset, but the judge permitted him to continue his testimony when he said the exchange would not affect his account. He said he was being truthful.
Outside court, Garofalo said, “We’re distressed to learn of this attempt at witness intimidation.”
When court resumed after lunch, Slice was absent. At the end of the day, an employee of the district attorney’s office collected Slice’s briefcase from under the counsel table.
Asked if Slice had been removed from the prosecution team, district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said, “The matter is being discussed, and no decision has been made as to her further role in this case.”
A state bar database shows that Slice was admitted to the bar last February.
In subsequent examination by the head of the prosecution team, Renee Rose, Birkhead acknowledged that shortly after Smith gave birth to their daughter, he filed a paternity suit and included a declaration asking that the child be tested for drugs because of Smith’s prescription drug usage. Birkhead also said he felt Smith was grief-stricken at the time because of the death of her son, Daniel, and might not be capable of caring for the baby.
Birkhead earlier said Smith took more drugs than he had ever seen anyone take. But he also said she suffered from a wide array of ailments.
Birkhead said Slice talked about his daughter after he testified Friday and suggested he was taking Stern’s side in the case.
“I felt the district attorney was frustrated,” Birkhead said under questioning by Garofalo, who represents Dr. Sandeep Kapoor. “She said I should bite my tongue. She then went into a long speech about my daughter, and how there was going to be something wrong with her.
“She said my daughter is going to be frustrated in learning and I should find something she excels in. She said she had studied the way the brain was made up.”
Birkhead said that after he left court, Slice text-messaged him, suggesting he should read to his daughter to help her development. Birkhead said he had not noticed any signs of physical or mental disability in 3-year-old Dannielynn Hope.
Garofalo asked Birkhead how he felt about the prosecutor’s remarks.
“I didn’t banter about it because I felt she had crossed the line about my daughter’s health,” Birkhead said. “It upset me.”
Asked by Superior Court Judge Robert Perry if he took this as a negative comment on his testimony, Birkhead replied that he did.
On Monday, as the same prosecutor was escorting him up in the elevator before the hearing resumed, “it was suggested to me it appeared I was taking up for Mr. Stern and Anna couldn’t speak for herself,” Birkhead said.
He added that Slice said “she probably shouldn’t have this conversation” but then remarked that “Anna could not speak for herself and the doctors had exploited her.”
Rose later got Birkhead to describe media deals he made after Smith’s death. He said he was paid a total of more than $2 million for interviews.
The next witness, Dr. Nathalie Maullin, a psychiatrist who treated Smith at Cedars Sinai Medical Center while she was pregnant, described her as a difficult patient who was obviously going through withdrawal from multiple medications when she was admitted.
“When I asked her what she had been taking, she blew me off,” said Maullin, who recalled that Smith referred all questions to Stern, who was in the hospital room with her.
She said she telephoned Kapoor, and he gave her a long list of drugs he had tried on Smith including Dilaudid, which she said surprised her because it is a powerful drug used in cancer patients and has addictive potential. She said Kapoor also said Smith had problems with alcohol.
Among the allegations against the defendants are dispensing controlled substances to an addict and dispensing them by fraud by using false names.
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Anna Nicole to IRS — Like My Money?

Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:15AM by TMZ Staff

Anna Nicole SmithThe IRS takes no prisoners — and even though Anna Nicole Smith’s been dead for over two and a half years, they’re still coming after her estate for a hefty chunk of change.

Records obtained by TMZ show the Internal Revenue Service filed a $125,112.86 federal tax lien against the Vickie Lynn Marshall Estate in Los Angeles County earlier this month.

The tax assessment took place in December 2008 — Anna died in February 2007.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0UTs1RlxY

http://blog.taragana.com/n/psychiatrist-testifies-about-anna-nicole-smiths-withdrawal-from-drugs-200588/ note the Judge told prosecutor she was done

Psychiatrist testifies about Anna Nicole Smith’s withdrawal from drugs
By Linda Deutsch, AP
October 20th, 2009

Psychiatrist details Anna Nicole’s drug addiction

LOS ANGELES — A psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith for drug dependency during her pregnancy said she tried to set up a program to wean her off prescription painkillers but found the celebrity model uncooperative and hostile during her stay in the hospital.

Dr. Nathalie Maullin was to continue her testimony Tuesday as prosecutors sought to show that the celebrity model was addicted to painkillers supplied by defendants in a drug case.

Maullin took the stand Monday after a disruption in the testimony of star witness Larry Birkhead resulted in the disappearance from the courtroom of a member of the prosecution team.

District attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said the future role of Deputy District Attorney Sarah Slice was under discussion after Birkhead, the father of Smith’s daughter, testified that she tried to influence his testimony. He said the young prosecutor suggested he was “taking the side” of Smith’s former boyfriend, lawyer Howard K. Stern.

Birkhead said Slice also warned him his daughter might have future problems because of her mother’s drug use.

“I felt I personally did my best and I was being chastised,” Birkhead said under questioning by defense attorney Ellyn Garofalo.

Birkhead said Slice told him prosecutors were “frustrated” with his testimony in the preliminary hearing, which will decide whether Stern and two doctors stand trial. They are charged with conspiracy to illegally give controlled substances to the former Playboy Playmate, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007.

When court resumed after lunch, Slice was absent. An after-hours call to her office was not answered.

After the upheaval, Deputy District attorney Renee Rose kept Birkhead on the stand talking about Smith’s drug use and tried to get him to say she was an addict.

He said he thought she took too many medications but that she told him: “I’m not a drug addict.”

Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry asked if he ever had a conversation with Stern in which he used the word “addiction.”

“No,” said the witness.

Rose continued to press Birkhead on multiple issues, including the fact that he made $2 million from TV interviews after Smith’s death, until the judge told her he had heard enough.

“I think you’re done,” he said as she continued to raise new issues.

In her testimony Monday, Maullin described her contact with Smith when she checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in April 2006, pregnant and in apparent withdrawal from pain and anti-anxiety medications. She said Smith had decided to “go cold turkey” and stop all drugs when she became pregnant, resulting in withdrawal.

She said Smith came to the hospital in distress, sweating, having spasms in her arms and legs and with her eyes dilated.

Maullin said she contacted Smith’s physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, one of those now charged in the case, and learned he had prescribed seven different drugs to Smith during the time she was seeking relief from pain.

Maullin said she suggested a new regimen including hypnosis and acupuncture but Smith wasn’t interested.

“She wouldn’t engage. She didn’t make eye contact. She was very hostile,” Maullin recalled. “It was, ‘Give me my medication and leave me alone.’”

Maullin said that when Smith was asked questions, she would reply: “Ask Howard.”

She said she told Stern that Smith should be in a structured rehab program and discussed with him and Kapoor her belief that Smith was addicted. Maullin said that during Smith’s hospital stay, she tried to regulate the former model’s use of methadone for pain and remove her from a number of drugs known as benzodiazepans.

Rose suggested that after Smith’s release, Kapoor continued to prescribe one of those medications.

Kapoor’s attorney, Ellyn Garofalo, has said the doctor gave Smith “sound and appropriate” treatment. Attorney Steve Sadow, representing Stern, has said his client shouldn’t be blamed for Smith’s death because he was relying on the doctors to treat her.

http://www.tmz.com/

Anna Nicole to IRS — Like My Money?

Posted Oct 20th 2009 12:15AM by TMZ Staff

Anna Nicole SmithThe IRS takes no prisoners — and even though Anna Nicole Smith’s been dead for over two and a half years, they’re still coming after her estate for a hefty chunk of change.

Records obtained by TMZ show the Internal Revenue Service filed a $125,112.86 federal tax lien against the Vickie Lynn Marshall Estate in Los Angeles County earlier this month.

The tax assessment took place in December 2008 — Anna died in February 2007.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0US4RZowP

Is it because she might have owed before her death? if so then interest and stuff but funny how all this Anna stuff is coming out now at once, (FBI files and IRS) Makes one wonder what the State of California is up to and the smear campaign is so rampant now, Hummmmm I say court of public opinion is who they are pandering to now imo and I am guessing the AG’s office does not like to be shown as a ass they are imo, imo a little to late for that and JB as on Garaldo it seems he is distancing himself, hell he would not even wait around for Moe, But JB was gung ho hot after Howard and the Doc’s. now it seems like they are dung ho, it is looking to me that soon enough they are going to be SOL and made the fall guys again by the TX cabal, I saw Harvey live today and I can’t wait to know what he says he knows, he was sounding like he was trying to hold his tongue imo, JB imo is and always has been a baffoon this waste of tax payers monies is just another example imo.

Li

IRS coming after Anna’s estate.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/16/larry-birkhead-anna-nicole-smith-howard-k-stern-drugs-sandeep-kapoor-khristine-eroshevich/8#comments

108. I am talking about what Sarah Slice said about Dannielynn–the judge knows she tried to intimidate a witness about his testimony, which is bad enough. However, nagging him personally about his child is over the top, and is extraneous commentary from an opinionated idiot. I am not talking about the redirect by Renee Rose and the issues from the paternity suit, other than to mention the originally sealed doc uments from it that Cosby had and Rose has now.

If a witness was tampered with by a prosecutor during an actual trial, it would be grounds for mis-trial. I’ve seen less than that halt a trial and/or end it.

Judge Perry didn’t seem to be the least bit shocked by Sarah Slice’s actions. The reporting doesn’t suggest it.

Posted at 11:41PM on Oct 19th 2009 by Howard Supporter
*****
Oh, I get you. I agree, if this was a criminal trial underway, a mistrial would have been declared. The ‘mafia style’ persuasion of a witness to say the ‘right’ thing by going after the baby is sick stuff.

I’m sure the junior member of the team got her head handed to her in private. Slice’s ignorant remarks and behaviors does shed light on the weakness of the case and the desperation of the prosecutors.

Posted at 12:31AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean

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http://blog.taragana.com/law/2009/10/19/father-of-anna-nicole-smiths-daughter-says-prosecutor-chastised-his-testimony-14677/

Father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter says prosecutor chastised his testimony
By Linda Deutsch, Ap
October 19th, 2009

Birkhead: Prosecutor chastised my testimony

LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor who was accused of trying to intimidate one of the star witnesses in the Anna Nicole Smith drug case was absent from the courtroom Monday afternoon, and the district attorney’s office said her further role in the case was under discussion.

Larry Birkhead, father of the celebrity model’s daughter, disclosed from the witness stand that Sarah Slice, the young prosecutor who had been escorting him to and from court, had given him advice about his testimony and warned that his daughter might have problems in later life because of her late mother’s drug use.

“I felt I personally did my best and I was being chastised,” he said under questioning by defense attorney Ellyn Garofalo.

Birkhead said Slice told him prosecutors were “frustrated” because he appeared to be taking the side of Howard K. Stern in the preliminary hearing which will decide whether Stern and two doctors stand trial.

Stern — Smith’s former boyfriend — and two doctors are charged with conspiracy to illegally give controlled substances to the former Playboy Playmate, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007.

Birkhead, who ended his two-day stay on the witness stand, said he felt he was being pressured by Slice to “ramp up” his testimony against the defendants.

He said the prosecutor’s remarks — followed by a text message after he got home — made him upset, but the judge permitted him to continue his testimony when he said the exchange would not affect his account. He said he was being truthful.

Outside court, Garofalo said, “We’re distressed to learn of this attempt at witness intimidation.”

When court resumed after lunch, Slice was absent. At the end of the day, an employee of the district attorney’s office collected Slice’s briefcase from under the counsel table.

Asked if Slice had been removed from the prosecution team, district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said, “The matter is being discussed, and no decision has been made as to her further role in this case.”

A state bar database shows that Slice was admitted to the bar last February.

In subsequent examination by the head of the prosecution team, Renee Rose, Birkhead acknowledged that shortly after Smith gave birth to their daughter, he filed a paternity suit and included a declaration asking that the child be tested for drugs because of Smith’s prescription drug usage. Birkhead also said he felt Smith was grief-stricken at the time because of the death of her son, Daniel, and might not be capable of caring for the baby.

Birkhead earlier said Smith took more drugs than he had ever seen anyone take. But he also said she suffered from a wide array of ailments.

Birkhead said Slice talked about his daughter after he testified Friday and suggested he was taking Stern’s side in the case.

“I felt the district attorney was frustrated,” Birkhead said under questioning by Garofalo, who represents Dr. Sandeep Kapoor. “She said I should bite my tongue. She then went into a long speech about my daughter, and how there was going to be something wrong with her.

“She said my daughter is going to be frustrated in learning and I should find something she excels in. She said she had studied the way the brain was made up.”

Birkhead said that after he left court, Slice text-messaged him, suggesting he should read to his daughter to help her development. Birkhead said he had not noticed any signs of physical or mental disability in 3-year-old Dannielynn Hope.

Garofalo asked Birkhead how he felt about the prosecutor’s remarks.

“I didn’t banter about it because I felt she had crossed the line about my daughter’s health,” Birkhead said. “It upset me.”

Asked by Superior Court Judge Robert Perry if he took this as a negative comment on his testimony, Birkhead replied that he did.

On Monday, as the same prosecutor was escorting him up in the elevator before the hearing resumed, “it was suggested to me it appeared I was taking up for Mr. Stern and Anna couldn’t speak for herself,” Birkhead said.

He added that Slice said “she probably shouldn’t have this conversation” but then remarked that “Anna could not speak for herself and the doctors had exploited her.”

Rose later got Birkhead to describe media deals he made after Smith’s death. He said he was paid a total of more than $2 million for interviews.

The next witness, Dr. Nathalie Maullin, a psychiatrist who treated Smith at Cedars Sinai Medical Center while she was pregnant, described her as a difficult patient who was obviously going through withdrawal from multiple medications when she was admitted.

“When I asked her what she had been taking, she blew me off,” said Maullin, who recalled that Smith referred all questions to Stern, who was in the hospital room with her.

She said she telephoned Kapoor, and he gave her a long list of drugs he had tried on Smith including Dilaudid, which she said surprised her because it is a powerful drug used in cancer patients and has addictive potential. She said Kapoor also said Smith had problems with alcohol.

Among the allegations against the defendants are dispensing controlled substances to an addict and dispensing them by fraud by using false names.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/a-psychiatrist-who-treated-a-pregnant-anna-nicole-smith-for-drug-withdrawal-testified-monday-that-the-model-said-she-was-will.html

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Anna Nicole Smith walked away from drug intervention, psychiatrist testifies
October 19, 2009 | 6:49 pm

A psychiatrist who treated a pregnant Anna Nicole Smith for drug withdrawal in 2006 testified today that the model said she was willing to “do anything” for her unborn daughter, but ultimately walked away from a program to break her dependence on prescription medication.

The 39-year-old former Playboy playmate died from a drug overdose 10 months after the hospitalization described by Dr. Nathalie Maullin.

Prosecutors are pursuing charges against Smith’s boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and two physicians accused of conspiring to illegally provide Smith with prescription medication.

At a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try the defendants, Maullin recalled Smith’s weeklong stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in April 2006.

Smith, 15 weeks into her pregnancy, had symptoms of acute drug withdrawal following what she told doctors was an attempt to go “cold turkey,” Maullin said.

“She said, ‘I’ll do anything for my baby,’ ” recalled Maullin, an addiction specialist. The hospital staff gave Smith methadone and the sedative Ativan to ease her symptoms and start the process of weaning her off the drugs, Maullin said.

Several days into her stay, Smith angrily rejected a treatment program that included a psychologist and a complete cessation of sedatives and methadone.

“She was very hostile. It was, ‘Give me my medications and leave me alone,’ ” Maullin testified.

The psychiatrist said she told Smith and Stern that if she wouldn’t comply with the hospital’s outpatient program, she needed to check into a rehab center. Smith’s reply was a stony glare and Stern questioned whether that was truly necessary, Maullin testified.

The father of the baby, Larry Birkhead, previously testified that Smith smuggled a bottle of methadone into the hospital and was using it with Stern’s knowledge to supplement the gradually smaller amounts given by the hospital.

Maullin said she never knew about the bottle. She also said she was unaware that Smith’s primary physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, wrote her a prescription for Ativan the day after her discharge.

Stern, Kapoor and a third doctor, Khristine Eroshevich, have pleaded not guilty.

– Harriet Ryan

When court resumed after lunch, Slice was absent. At the end of the day, an employee of the district attorney’s office collected Slice’s briefcase from under the counsel table.

Asked if Slice had been removed from the prosecution team, district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said, “The matter is being discussed, and no decision has been made as to her further role in this case.”

A state bar database shows that Slice was admitted to the bar last February.

Posted at 8:48PM on Oct 19th 2009 by Howard Supporter

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This link won’t stay up long so please watch as soon as possible.

http://www.tmz.com/tmzlive?autoplay=true&mediaKey=dc9cb262-a7bf-44b4-b247-e20d5b578fee

” HKS Prelim Day 5 – 10-19-09 – Bombshell

• Prosecutors attempting to intimidate LB and willing to suborn perjury if necessary

• Toss this phony case and file charges against the DA’s Office.

And many of us thought JB was a low-life and political opportunist using the taxpayers’ dollars to finance his campaign
indirectly with a ‘celebrity’ criminal trial. The DA’s Office has sunk even lower.
Renee isn’t just another ‘Marsha Clark’; she is another ‘Nifong’!

And insinuating DL is ‘damaged’ in some way has got to be one of the sickest parts of the prosecutors’ attempt to
have LB testify to the State’s ‘story’ (aka the TX cabal’s story for years) despite the truth.

How witnesses in how many other criminal cases have been encouraged to ‘ramp up’ their testimony?
How many false (coerced) guilty pleas and how many false convictions has this DA’s Office finessed?
Unless you have plenty of money and top-flight legal representation
you could be (or have been) victimized in LA. Posted on Oct 19th 2009 by Only swim in the Ocean”

* JUST LOVE THIS LINE! >> “Renee isn’t just another ‘Marsha Clark’; she is another ‘Nifong’!” >> HOW VERY, VERY TRUE!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

hehehehe

So willy is annoyed… stiff

The stuff with Larry is interesting, why would they feel they had to suggest at this late stage any health related things about Dannielynn??? Is it a way to get it in the court?? Let Larry bring it up then use it?

Why aren’t the HIPPA laws protecting Anna’s health records? I would have thought this was a given.

Psychiatrist
Female – 6 years experience
Kaiser – Mental Health Center

765 W College St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Difficult could mean in control and demanding???

The next witness, Dr. Nathalie Maullin, a pscyhiatrist who treated Smith at Cedars Sinai Medical Center while she was pregnant, described her as a difficult patient who was obviously going through withdrawal from multiple medications when she was admitted.

“When I asked her what she had been taking, she blew me off,” said Maullin, who recalled that Smith referred all questions to Stern who was in the hospital room with her.

She said she telephoned Kapoor, and he gave her a long list of drugs he had tried on Smith including Dilaudid, which she said surprised her because it is a powerful drug used in cancer patients and has addictive potential. She said Kapoor also said Smith had problems with alcohol.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6675177.html

Will be interesting to see when DC and WV testify and what to since they have NO first hand information do they?

No worries about Vice, she’s with her FBI man. He can protect her. I’m enjoying the comments about HKS being cheap. Would some rather he spent “precious DL’s inheritance” and provide luxury accommodations instead?