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Cancer patient testifies against KC pharmacist
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ovarian cancer patient Georgia Hayes wants former pharmacists Robert R. Courtney to have to look at her for a very long time.
Hayes testified yesterday in her lawsuit against Courtney, who has acknowledged watering down her chemotherapy drugs. He faces a possible 30-year prison sentence.
"If I had my wish, they would paint all of our faces on his cell block wall so that when he goes to sleep at night, we are the last thing he sees and when he wakes up in
the morning, we are the first thing he sees." Hayes said.
Hayes sometimes cried during her 53 minutes of testimony. She described her fight with the disease from her first diagnosis of cancer in 1996 until today.
Hayes was the last witness for the plaintiffs.
Hayes' lawsuit is the first of more than 400 filed in Jackson County Circuit Court against Courtney to go to trial. About 300 lawsuits that also named drug-makers Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb were settled Monday.
During yesterday's testimony.
prominent cancer doctor Robert K. Oldham testified that Hayes probably missed her best chance to cure the disease because she received diluted medicine from the pharmacy Courtney operated.
Oldham, founder of the oncology department at Vanderbilt University, said that Hayes was in a good position to fight her cancer before she got Courtney's diluted medications.
But instead, the cancer cells in her body may have become more resistant to treatment because Hayes' medication was only partial strength.
Survivor of killings talks
The Associated Press
WICHITA — The sole survivor of a quadruple killing identified in court yesterday brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr as the armed intruders who terrorized the five friends in December 2000.
The courtroom identification was a major setback for the defense of Reginald Carr because the woman had been able to identify only his brother during a preliminary hearing last year.
She told jurors she had been unable at that time to identify Reginald Carr because he had changed his appearance since the attacks.
He had shaved his head and intermittently wore glasses at the hearing.
But in photos shown to her at the hospital just hours after the shootings, the woman picked out both men as the intruders who
drove the group to a soccer field on Dec. 15, 2000 and shot them all, according to testimony and evidence presented yesterday.
The Cars are on trial in Sedgwick County District Court charged with 113 criminal acts stemming from a nine-day crime spree that left five people dead. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
In the most notorious of the crimes, the brothers are accused of abducting the five people from a Wichita home the night of Dec. 14, 2000, forcing them to withdraw money from automated teller machines and forcing them to have sex before shooting them in a soccer field early the next morning. Killed were Aaron Sander, 29; Heather Muller, 25; Brad Heyka, 27; and Jason Befort, 26.
One woman, then a 25-year-
old teacher, survived.
The Carrs also are accused in the Dec. 11, 2000, shooting of Ann Walenta, 55, who later died. The case also includes a Dec. 7, 2000 robbery.
During that robbery, Andrew Schreiber was abducted and forced to withdraw cash from an ATM machine.
yesterday, jurors heard for the first time the emotional testimony of the survivor as she recounted how the friends were forced to kneel in the snow-covered field.
She was at one end next to her boyfriend, Befort.
"As I was kneeling, there was a shot. And I don't remember, we were all screaming, but I can remember hearing Aaron say, 'please no.'
"There was another one, and another one, and then another one."
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