World’s First Posthumous Guilty Plea
Actually, I don’t know whether it’s the world’s first, but the situation is certainly, as this story in the Elkhart Truth put it, “unusual.” The story’s headline declares: “Embattled optometrist Gabriele did give falsified diagnoses.” The trouble is, Dr. Philip Gabriele and his wife denied any wrongdoing in a suicide note they mailed to a local TV station a couple days after they were indicted by a federal grand jury and before killing themselves. Shortly after the couple’s suicide, an ophthalmologist who was (more…)
