Accused teen physician’s assistant impersonator Matthew Scheidt gained a small victory Wednesday when Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Jon B. Morgan acquitted him on one of his six charges.

Morgan agreed with Scheidt’s Orange-Osceola Public Defender Jamie Kane, who argued after Orange-Osceola Assistant State Attorney Sarah Freeman rested for the state for acquittal on all charges.

Morgan dropped of the four counts of practicing medicine without a license, ruling the count specifying Scheidt removed an intravenous line from an emergency department patient at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee lacked sufficient evidence.

“That’s a close call. There’s no testimony from the patient or hospital personnel who was in the room with the patient (at the time),” Morgan said.

ORMC physician’s assistant Devin Mone testified Tuesday he walked past an exam room in Aug. 2011 and saw Scheidt with gloves on and holding the IV on the side of the patient where the line had been removed. The patient had a bandage on his or her arm and a paramedic, who was not wearing gloves, was in the room.

Cane and Scheidt shook hands after Morgan’s decision and the teen, who was 17 at the time the alleged incidents took place, hugged his other attorney Migdalia Perez.

Scheidt still faces two counts of impersonating a physician’s assistant and three counts of practicing medicine without a license for allegedly lying to ORMC staff to gain access to the hospital’s emergency department and treat patients.

He could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

Scheidt maintains the hospital staff is at fault for giving him a physician’s assistant badge and claims he never told anyone he was a physician’s assistant, only a physician’s assistant student, in order to shadow doctors at the hospital.

Scheidt told Morgan Wednesday that he will not testify. However, Freeman played more than two hours of police interrogation video for the jury Wednesday in which Scheidt claimed no wrongdoing.

Witnesses for the state testified Tuesday Scheidt had masqueraded himself as a physician’s assistant, a position that requires extensive medical training and is considered the level below a medical doctor.

Scheidt was not a medical student at Nova Southeastern University, as he had claimed, according to testimony Tuesday from the school’s registrar.

The defense rested their case last Wednesday. Closing arguments are set for this morning before Morgan instructs the jury for deliberations.

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