A sentencing hearing scheduled this week for nurse anesthetist Paul Patrick Serdula has been postponed to Oct. 26-27.

Serdula faces a possible life sentence and up to $1.8 million in fines after being convicted in April in Cobb County of molesting female patients after he drugged them.

The delay is necessary to allow Serdula’s attorney, Jimmy Berry, to handle a death penalty case, court representatives said.

Serdula was found guilty of 34 charges. Most of his 19 victims were unconscious at the time of the incidents, and several were less than 16 years old.

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