Suspect in AIDS Death Ordered to Stand Trial
A nurse suspected of posing as a doctor and telephoning a Santa Monica hospital with a potentially lethal prescription for an AIDS patient was ordered to stand trial for attempted murder Wednesday.
Hal Speers Rachman will be arraigned in Santa Monica Superior Court next week on 17 felony counts.
Charges against him include telephoning the phony prescription for Edward Lebowitz, who died Sept. 24 of complications from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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