Karin Smith
Karin Smith died on
March 8,
1995, of
cervical cancer. After her
death, a
grand jury found a
doctor and
laboratory technician to be
guilty of
negligent homicide. In
1988 and
1989, Smith had received pap smears which were argued to have "unequivocally" shown that she had cancer; however, the lab had not made the
diagnosis.