LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing student patients can be retried on charges involving additional women, a judge ruled Friday.
A Superior Court judge granted a prosecution request to retry Dr. James Heaps on nine charges after a jury deadlocked on the counts last fall.
He was convicted last October of five counts of sexually abusing two female patients.
Los Angeles jurors found him not guilty on seven other counts and deadlocked on remaining charges involving four women.
Political Cartoons View All 1234 ImagesHeaps, a longtime UCLA campus gynecologist, was accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of patients during his 35-year career.
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