trial attorneys for the second trial were Lawrence Robbins and Richard Sauber, of Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, respectively. On July 13, 2007 Judge Brinkema sentenced Hurwitz to four years and nine months. The judge said that most of Hurwitz's practice was legitimate medicine that saved patients' lives and that medical literature increasingly supports his theories on the propriety of massive drug doses to treat patients in chronic pain. "An increasing body of respectable medical literature and expertise supports those types of high-dosage, opioid medications," the judge said. The judge added that Hurwitz had undermined his own cause by ignoring that some patients were clearly drug dealers and Hurwitz admitted before sentencing that he had deceived himself about some patients who in retrospect were clearly criminals. Hurwitz was imprisoned a total of four years and eight months. He then moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. References External links Press Release from DEA regarding Hurwitz sentencing Articles by and about Dr. Hurwitz - archived by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons The Police State of Medicine: Reflections on a Case of Regulatory Abuse - Hurwitz's 1998 article The Police State of Medicine - Part II - Hurwitz's 2002 follow up to his 1998 article Conviction Of McLean Pain Doctor Overturned Washington Post article on Fourth Circuit Court decision Physicians from Virginia American Jews Stanford University School of Medicine alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni Living people American drug traffickers Substance dependence American pain physicians People associated with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Year of birth missing (living people)