Pharmacist to testify in Anna Nicole Smith case

A pharmacist who refused to fill prescriptions for Anna Nicole Smith's doctors is due to testify when a preliminary hearing resumes.

Ira Freeman, who has said he feared the drugs requested would kill Smith, is the next scheduled prosecution witness Thursday. The preliminary hearing was in recess Wednesday because of a state mandated furlough day in the courts.

The hearing, which is in its second week, will determine whether two doctors and the model's boyfriend-lawyer will stand trial. They are charged with conspiring to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances.

The Playboy model died in February 2007 of an overdose of prescription drugs.

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