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Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:07 AM Jun 2017

Filings by physician accused in 'pill mill' case prompt government request for a hearing

A judge has rescinded permission for a physician — representing himself in a drug case that could net him hundreds of years in prison — to commute to a law library.

In a brief order Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge David J. Novak wrote that he mistakenly believed the government did not oppose a request from Dr. Clarence Scranage to travel from his mother’s King George County home, where he is confined pending trial, to the law library at the University of Richmond to perform legal research.

He vacated his earlier order pending a yet-to-be scheduled rehearing on the matter during which the government will be heard.

In a motion filed Tuesday, the U.S. attorney’s office asked that Novak’s travel order be revoked pending a rehearing or at least be modified several ways so authorities can keep better tabs on Scranage.

Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/filings-by-physician-accused-in-pill-mill-case-prompt-government/article_fcfb9326-a932-5b45-85dd-245013cc1152.html

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