HOUSTON (AP) — It’s now up to a jury to sentence a Texas cancer researcher for poisoning her colleague and lover by spiking his coffee with a chemical found in antifreeze.
Closing arguments are set for Monday in the punishment phase of the trial of Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, a breast cancer doctor based at Houston’s famed Texas Medical Center.
A jury convicted Gonzalez-Angulo on Friday of aggravated assault for poisoning Dr. George Blumenschein with ethylene glycol in 2013 after he spurned her in favor of his longtime girlfriend.
Gonzalez-Angulo could be sentenced to up to life in prison. On Friday, however, her colleagues and former patients asked jurors to sentence the 43-year-old doctor to probation, describing her as a compassionate person.
