The acquittal of former neurologist Ernst Jansen Steur is justified. The Supreme Court does not annul the verdict on appeal last year. Writing the Advocate General Tuesday in its opinion to the Supreme Court. Probably mid-May following the ruling.
The Prosecution was June last year brought an appeal against the acquittal of the former neurologist. On appeal, he was acquitted after he was sentenced to three years in prison in the first instance.
Jansen had to be legally accountable for medical errors late nineties. The location of drugs addicted doctor declared globally between 1998 and 2004 many patients wrongly terminally ill. They would suffer from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or MS. For those diagnoses often lacked proper medical examination.
Because of guilt by the elapsed time has now expired, the court could not examine it. He asked deliberate misdiagnosis of serious diseases, according to the court could not be proven.
Gross negligence
The Court said in its judgment Nor does the doctor nothing to blame. The Court states that there is 'gross negligence'. There is only a difference in the legal assessment of the concept design.
An acquittal given because the judge is not convinced, can be annulled by the Supreme Court only in exceptional cases. According to the Advocate General is that in this case not so and therefore he rejects the argument of the prosecutor to Jones 'supposed' because of the duty of care imposed on it must be to have acted intentionally.
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