X-Message-Number: 261 Date: 16 Dec 90 00:46:27 EST From: Steve Bridge <> To: KEVIN <> Subject: Alcor update 12-15-90 Message-Id: <"901216054627 72320.1642 EHI35-1"@CompuServe.COM> TO: Kevin Another exciting bit of Alcor news that I missed in my recent update: The District Attorney in Riverside California has decided to close the investigations into the death of Dora Kent, including both the possible murder charges and the felony charge of practicing medicine without a license. Essentially, they had no case and they knew it. There is no question that Dora Kent was NOT murdered; she was merely placed into cryonic sus- pension as a neuropatient. The DA further stated that the charge of practicing medicine without a license had no hope because the prosecutors would have had to prove either that Dora Kent was alive when the procedure was done or that using medical procedures on dead people is, in fact, practicing medicine. To quote from the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Nov. 28, 1990: Had the office decided to go forward on such a murky area of law, he said, "We could have just ruined a lot of people's lives and cost everybody a lot of money and not done anything socially beneficial." NOW he figures that out. What does he think he has ALREADY done? Unfortunately, the Medical Board of California is still investigating an Alcor physician who signed Dora Kent's death certificate. He is under investigation "for possibly aiding and abetting the unlicensed practice of medicine." We think this investigation is also a crock of pretty smelly cheese, and we hope that, in the light of the recent court rulings and of the DA's decision to drop the case, the Medical Board will back off, too. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=261