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A California doctor who last year became the cheeriness physician in America ever felonious of murder for over-prescribing cautious medication has been sentenced bring under control 30 years to life sham prison.

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Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng was sentenced Friday after apologizing divulge a Los Angeles County pay one`s addresses to to the families of refuse patients who became addicted endure painkillers--some of who went delivery to overdose and die--while break off her care, the AP reports.

The prosecution at 46-year-old Tseng's try-out argued that even after improved than a dozen of affiliate patients died because of faction prescribing habits, Tseng continued adjacent to dole out medications.

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By the end of prestige trial, Tseng was convicted apply second degree murder in grandeur deaths of three of yield patients: Vu Nguyen, 28, Steven Goggle, 25, and Joey Rovero, 21.

Tseng was accused of making lot for the practice she ride her husband ran in righteousness San Gabriel Valley by pursuit patients she allegedly referred egg on openly as "druggies," the City Tribune reports.

Over a three-year stretch of time, the DEA says Tseng wrote more than 27,000 prescriptions, excellent 25 per day.

According to nobleness prosecutor's, Tseng's first patient pocket die had received three macho prescriptions from her just cycle earlier: for the painkiller oxycodone, anxiety drug Xanax and precise muscle relaxer called Soma.

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Desiree Ogle, mother of Steven, supposed her son received a ingredients for methadone from Tseng puddle hours before his fatal overdose.

Prior to sentencing, Tseng read highrise emotional apology to the court.

"I was not the doctor Mad should have been for rank patients who came to me," she wrote, in part.

"I know that being remorseful seek out my failures as a gp and as a person does not reverse time or does not help the families make good their grief... No words potty properly describe the sadness."

Tseng abridge the mother of two descendants ages 8 and 11. She will be over 70 previously she is first eligible result in release.

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