A throng of pro-Dr. Anna Pou friends and family members gathered in City Park, Tuesday night, to support Pou who is fighting for her own legal life as she battles the risks of prosecution.

Pou is involved in a high-stakes legal match with DA Eddie Jordan who is considering whether to prosecute her for post-Katrina deaths of patients.  The case is in front of a grand jury. 

The gathering occurred one year from the date of the arrest by Attorney General Charles Foti who accused Pou of killing four patients at a New Orleans hospital a difficult time post Katrina. 

The case has made national news including Sixty Minutes.  In the Sixty Minutes program, Pou said she did not commit euthanasia.  Pou and her colleagues stayed in the hospital in extremely difficult conditions.

Complicating matters is the fact that civil lawsuits have been filed in the case and some believe those lawsuits and also politics is motivating prosecutors to take legal action.  On Monday, Pou filed suit against the State for the arrest claiming the arrest was politically generated.  Others feel that prosecutors are  simply following the law.

According to Bayoubuzz Medical consultant, Lorrie Metzler, M.D., who is President of the FBI Citizens' Academy, New Orleans Division, and Chief Medical Consultant for Texas State University and University of New Orleans' Center for Society, Law and Justice, ”it appears a much more prudent choice to utilize the resources of the New Orleans District Attorney's Office and Louisiana's Attorney General's office to combat the abysmal failures of the New Orleans Criminal Justice System, rather than use such offices to tenuously single out a lone physician scapegoat in Katrina's aftermath."

Dr. Metzler who is a practicing emergency room physician in the New Orleans area further commented that "all factors should be considered and no rash judgments should be made about any medical personnel in an unprecedented catastrophic medical emergency.   Citizens were dying in the streets without food and water while dedicated medical professional's lives were on the line with suffocating heat, stench, and sniper attacks to the supply helicopters on hospital roofs."

In addition, many individuals have expressed concern that further proceedings against Pou would only contribute to the concerns that medical providers would not return to New Orleans out of fear of prosecution in a similar situation.