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Article: Naturopath's trial under way At issue is whether practitioner caused death of teenager.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- February 1, 2006
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Byline: Sue Lindsay, Rocky Mountain News
Defense attorneys for a Wheat Ridge naturopathic practitioner are gearing up for a courtroom battle that they say goes well beyond one man's livelihood.
The attorneys plan to show that the unconventional therapies Brian O'Connell used are safe and effective.
They also will present expert testimony that a terminally ill teenager died of an overdose of painkillers, and that prosecutors used undue influence to get a coroner to change the cause of death to bolster their homicide case.
Some say the case threatens to put the profession of naturopathy on trial.
O'Connell, 37, is charged with ...