The Region - News from June 23, 1987

Charges against a former Long Beach nursing home employee found guilty of abuse in a patient’s death have been dismissed because the statute of limitations has expired. Lito Aqui, 27, a former employee of the Hillcrest Convalescent Hospital, was scheduled to be sentenced in the 1984 death of patient Aubry Fanning after a jury found him guilty of the misdemeanor charge last month. However, at Aqui’s sentencing hearing before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry Nelson, Deputy Dist. Atty. Martin L. Herscovitz requested that the charge be dismissed because he recently had learned that the statute of limitations had expired.