LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal appeals court has upheld the 20-year prison sentence for a former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient he misdiagnosed.
The three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected arguments by Robert Levy's attorneys that the sentence was unreasonable.
Levy pleaded guilty to misdiagnosing a patient with small cell carcinoma who died after being treated for a type of cancer he didn’t have.
Levy falsified the patient’s medical record to state that another pathologist agreed with his diagnosis, according to the agreement.