SYDNEY (AP) — American surgeon Jayant Patel has been convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of three former patients in Australia.
A jury returned a guilty verdict Tuesday against the Indian-born doctor and U.S. citizen who worked in an Australian hospital between 2003 and 2005.
A U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2008 bordered that the 60-year-old Patel be sent from Oregon to Australia to stand trial.
Patel had pleaded innocent to three counts of manslaughter and one count of causing grievous bodily harm. The charges related to four patients he treated while working as director of surgery at the hospital in Queensland state.