NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A grand jury Tuesday declined to indict Dr. Anna Pou, the surgeon accused of killing four seriously ill patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Pou and two nurses were arrested last summer after Attorney General Charles Foti’s investigation concluded they killed four people with a “lethal cocktail” at Memorial Medical Center during the chaotic conditions that followed the August 2005 storm. Lawyers for the three said they acted heroically by staying to treat patients rather than evacuating.

UPDATE: I’ve gotten a number of NOLA-area e-mails saying, essentially: “Most folks down here see this case in terms less Terry Schiavo, more Mike Nifong.”