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A California transplant surgeon is accused of hastening a patient's death via a lethal dose of drugs so his organs could be harvested.

Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on charges he ordered that excessive doses of drugs be given to a brain-damaged patient who was near death.

After suffering cardiac arrest, says Whitaker, the profoundly disabled 25-year-old was removed from life support systems at the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Rose Navarro says it's what happened next that moved the situation from the hospital to the courtroom. The San Luis Obispo prosecutor says Roozrokh tried to hasten Navarro's death with a massive, lethal cocktail of morphine, sedative, and the antiseptic Betadine, a poison.

Why?

"To harvest his organs," she replied through tears. "I will never be the same, because of what they did to my boy."

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