Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy yesterday for his role in illegally obtaining the prescription meds that ultimately killed her. People Magazine says:

Stern was convicted of a count of conspiring to prescribe prescription drugs using fraudulent means and a count of conspiring to furnish prescription drugs to an addict.

He was acquitted of seven other charges, including another conspiracy charge and charges of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining a prescription for an opiate using false information.

[Smith's psychiatrist Khristine] Eroshevich was convicted of four charges, including the same two conspiracy charges that Stern was convicted of, as well as two counts of obtaining a prescription for opiates using a false name.

Each of them face three or more years in prison at their Jan. 6 sentencing, says a spokeswoman for the DA’s office.

I bet you were just as shocked as I was when you read this. Anna Nicole Smith had a psychiatrist all those years? Yet she never spent any time in a straight jacket or locked in a room with padded walls or shaved down and covered with electrodes. My therapist must be doing it all kinds of wrong, then.

Hello poppets, it’s Sonya with you today. The big news this morning is that Howard K. Stern, along with two others, have been charged with illegally prescribing drugs to Anna Nicole Smith. People reports,

Stern, 40, a fixture at Smith’s side for years who once claimed to be the father of her daughter Dannielynn, has been formally charged with conspiring to furnish drugs to Smith prior to her death, prosecutors said Thursday.

Also charged with felonies were two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor, 40, and Khristine Eroshevich, 61, who allegedly prescribed medication unlawfully to Smith, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office.

The conspiracy counts allege the three defendants conspired to provide controlled substances to Smith from between June 2004 and January 2007. They also were charged with “prescribing, administering or dispensing a controlled substance to an addict,” among other charges.

Iiiiinteresting. Sounds like a classic case of a tag team. Get Anna high on opiates and tell her that she’s been chosen to carry the seed of Starflight, the Magical Unicorn. Sounds like good, clean fun to me. The courts have no imagination!

Howard K. Stern and Sandeep Kapoor, who were bailed out this morning: