HAMILTON, Mont. — The Florence doctor convicted last year of 22 felony drug counts including two negligent homicides is back in jail.
Dr. Chris Christensen had been free pending his appeal with the Montana Supreme Court. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. But his bail has been revoked.
According to court documents, Christensen failed to file a timely appeal with the state Supreme Court.
The court report said a stay of execution was lifted and an arrest warrant issued.
Christensen has been arrested and is currently in the Ravalli County Detention Center.
The report said that it is the court’s judgment that Christensen’s stay should be “lifted immediately” and that he should begin serving his sentence “without further delay.”
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I can NOT add to the narrative Dr. Ibsen has stated. Not being a physician, only a patient that has prospered, gained ability and mobility in a responsible manner for 23 years, I as an ignorant patient can only state that the CDC :guidline: has made a grave mistake!
Not sure if this is was a screw up by the attorney for Dr Christensen
More likely a beurocratic trap.
Wow.
He Had paid bail.
His legal team indicated their intent to file appeal.
It was filed in district court.
5 deputies and the assistant county attorney (Thorin Geist) came to the Doctor’s home, where he was alone. His wife is the family’s source of income and works as a PT.
They re-arrested him and hauled him off to jail.
The
Glee with which these thugs bully and abuse Dr Christensen is appalling.
Judge Langton, AFTER the conviction called Dr Christensen a narcissist( his psychiatric training extends to his own narcissistic activities as an alcoholic)
And
William Fullbright
The county attorney
Also
AFTER the case was concluded
Stated that
“Dr Christensen gave these patients a loaded gun”
In a state where at least 1/3 of the One Million citizens have loaded guns.
These cruelly ambitious narcissists project their psychopathology onto this kind, compassionate physician who took on a tsunami of abandoned opiate patients from nearby Missoula.
Sick.
And I am sick to death at this abuse of power,
This malevolent use of our justice system to advance the careers of lawyers who know nothing about the practice of medicine.
Please
Let’s return to sanity in Medicine
And
In Justice
In Montana, and the rest of our precious country.
I stand by Dr Chris.
I hope you will too.
Mark Ibsen MD