Jurors deliberating fate of Texas cancer doctor accused of poisoning lover-colleague

Rusty Hardin & Associates partners Derek Hollingsworth and Andy Drumheller defended Dr. Ana Gonzalez.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas cancer researcher accused of poisoning a colleague who was also her lover was described by prosecutors on Wednesday as a devious and manipulative person who took extreme action when the man she’d become obsessed with rejected her.

Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo’s attorneys countered that there was no direct evidence against their client in the poisoning — which fellow researcher George Blumenschein survived — and that the prosecution’s case was “nothing but speculation and guesswork.”
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