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Graffiti is scrawled on a light pole near a memorial to Prince outside the First Avenue nightclub on April 22, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The pre-med student and son of an addiction specialist who found pop singer Prince dead in an elevator at Paisley Park may be subject to criminal charges, reports People magazine.
Andrew Kornfeld, whose father Dr. Howard Kornfeld was hired to treat Prince, could face charges for possession of the prescription drug, Suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate addiction. Suboxone is considered a controlled substance in the state of Minnesota.
People reports that the drugs on Kornfeld were taken into possession by the Carver County Sheriff’s office after Kornfeld found Prince dead and called 911 on April 21.
Kornfeld was apparently dispatched to treat Prince as a consultant for his father’s California outpatient addiction clinic, Recovery Without Walls. The clinic had been hired by Prince’s representatives to begin emergency treatment on the star of prescription drug addiction, according to the doctor’s lawyer, William Mauzy.
The lawyer says that Kornfeld should be granted “statutory immunity” for possessing Suboxone without a prescription under Minnesota’s Good Samaritan law, which says that a person giving aid at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages in any resulting case.
Kornfeld could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for possession. And because he brought the drugs across state lines (from California to Minnesota), he may also face federal charges.
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