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Indian-American doctor gets life term for bombing
Wednesday March 02, 2011 02:14:23 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington:
An Indian-American doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment
for a 2009 bombing that critically injured the chairman of the
Arkansas Medical Board against whom he held a grudge.
Randeep Mann, former physician at Russellville in Arkansas state,
was sentenced Monday in federal court in Little Rock, the Arkansas
News reported.
Mann's wife was given a year in prison for getting in the way of
the federal investigation.
Prosecutors say Mann was out for revenge after Pierce pulled
Mann's license to prescribe narcotics. Several of Mann's patients
had overdosed on drugs.
That's when Mann attached a bomb to Pierce's car, which was
sitting in the driveway of Pierce's West Memphis home. Pierce lost
some of his sight and hearing in the bombing, and was left badly
scarred.
Pierce attended the hearing, and gave a brief statement asking the
judge to send Randeep Mann to prison for life.
The Manns attorneys maintain their clients' innocence and plan to
appeal within 14 days.
"The jury just got this wrong. It's a great system we have in this
country, but it is not infallible," said defence attorney Blake
Hendrix.
"I have not a clue who did it, but we can assume that person is
still running around," Hendrix added.
Also present at Monday's sentencing was Teresa Harris, whose
daughter Ellie overdosed on prescription drugs seven years ago,
she says under the care of Randeep Mann.
The Pierce family is asking for 1.7 million dollars in
restitution. The judge left that decision open for 90 days to
further examine the Manns' finances.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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