Despite a prior agreement between her counsel and Attorney General Foti that she would be allowed the dignity of a self-surrender should an arrest be a reality, Dr. Pou was arrested and handcuffed at her home after a long day of surgery at a Baton Rouge Hospital.

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The day after her arrest, Foti held a widely-publicized press conference where he declared that Dr. Pou and the two nurses “pretended they were God” and gave “lethal cocktail” injections of morphine and Versed to at least four patients at Memorial Hospital. While the Foti prosecution team members who lied to the defense about Dr. Pou's imminent arrest, and through whose eyes the latter part of Fink's book is told, now disavow the circus arrest, both Butch Schaefer and Virginia Rider stood beside Foti at this press conference. Two days after the arrest, Foti, who was running for re-election, held a political fundraiser at a premier hotel in New Orleans.

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