A California appellate court upheld the fraud conviction of a vocational nurse for falsely claiming he had been attacked by a prison inmate with a contaminated syringe.
Case: People v. Diop, No. E073789, 03/08/2021, unpublished.
Facts: Ndiawar Diop worked for the California Institution for Men in Chino as a licensed vocational nurse.
On June 4, 2013, Diop provided insulin to inmate George Philpott. After Philpott injected himself, he returned the needle through an opening in a window. Diop placed the used needle into a container.
Philpott saw Diop get pricked by the needle and he called ou...
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