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Attorneys for the two doctors--Arif Hussain and Alan Lefkowitz--filed an appeal with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the next highest court, shortly after the emergency stay was denied...
Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Walter I Steele originally sentenced Hussain. Lefkowitz and Sherry to three to five years in Walpole State Prison, with all but six months of the sentence suspended. He stayed the sentences until an appeal was heard in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
...state's high court unanimously upheld the doctor's convictions eight days ago, and Suffolk Justice James P. McGuire revoked the stays on their sentences Wednesday and ordered Hussain and Lefkowitz to begin serving time at Walpole...
District Court Judge A David Mazzone '50 rejected the appeal for an emergency stay because defense attorneys failed to demonstrate a clear miscarriage of justice of exceptional circumstances necessary to prevent Hussain and Lefkowtz from beginning the sentences they received in June 1981 for raping a BWH nurse at a beach house in Rockport, Mass...
...bestow on the medical community a special prestige, and with that goes a public trust--in certain types of behavior and self-regulation. That trust was violated several times during the Hussain affair and related events. Guilt or innocence in specific cases is fun stuff for trial watchers, but the issue of professional responsibility will remain after the visage of Arif Hussain has faded from the front pages...