Anna Nicole Judge: Guilty Boyfriend Said Too Much in Broward Court

Seidlin revisits Smith case as Broward State Attorney's Office keeps eye on death investigation

The nutty Broward judge who presided over the circus to decide where Anna Nicole Smith's body would be buried said Smith's boyfriend doomed himself when he appeared in his courtroom in 2007.

Former judge Larry Seidlin said Smith boyfriend Howard K. Stern, who was convicted in an L.A. courtroom Thursday of conspiring to fake names on prescriptions to give drugs to the one-time supermodel, said too much during the wild proceedings three years ago in South Florida.

"I hope during the court trial I had I gave him a fair shake. He was not required to appear in my court, I invited him there and I think by him appearing in my courtroom, he hung himself," Seidlin said Friday. "He wound up testifying and he showed in my courtroom that he brought a dufflebag of drugs to Anna Nicole while she was trying to wean herself off of drugs and she was pregnant in a hospital room."

Smith's body was found in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood in February 2007, the victim of an apparent accidental overdose. Seidlin received his 15 minutes of fame as the teary-eyed judge with the difficult decision of where Smith would be buried.

Seidlin's comments came the same day the Broward State Attorney's Office said they're still reviewing the death of the former Playboy Playmate.

"We're continuing to look at it," State Attorney's Office spokesman Ron Ishoy told the Sun-Sentinel.

Though there was no criminal case in Broward, California authorities last year arrested Stern and Smith's two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, on charges they provided Smith with an excessive amount of drugs.

Stern and Eroshevich were found guilty; Kapoor was exonerated.

"They might give him some jail time but the fact that he's convicted of a felony, think of a felony as a bullet to the heart, a felony has great consequences, tremendous," said Seidlin of Stern. "You have for the rest of your life an F on your head, felon."

Whether that guilty verdict could lead to more serious charges in Broward County is yet to be seen. Ishoy said earlier this month that the State Attorney's Office was watching to see the outcome of the L.A. trial before pursuing any possible charges.

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