SAN LUIS OBISPO (AP) — A disabled patient was prepared for organ donation even though his doctor believed he wasn't a good candidate for donation, according to a police report filed in the criminal case against a transplant surgeon.

Dr. Eric Schultz noted in Ruben Navarro's medical chart and told a transplant nurse that weaning him off the respirator would be counterproductive because his "drive to breathe was still intact, his heartbeat was still intact," the police report said.

The doctor recounted the time he took the 25-year-old Navarro off the ventilator so that the patient could breathe on his own, and did not believe the patient would immediately die in time for his organs to be recovered.

The statement and other witness accounts by doctors and nurses at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center detail allegations in the botched organ recovery last year in which Navarro died.

The documents were filed in county Superior Court last month, the same time prosecutors accused Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a 33-year-old San Francisco transplant surgeon, of trying to hasten Navarro's death by ordering excessive painkillers and sedatives.

Roozrokh was working at the time on behalf of a group that procures and distributes organs.

Navarro's mother, Rosa, of Oxnard has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Roozrokh, Lubarsky and others, claiming she consented to organ donation without knowing all the facts.

The hospital has denied wrongdoing and said it has since retrained its staff.

Roozrokh, who is charged with three felonies, will be arraigned Aug. 14. Defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who has maintained his client's innocence, said he had no comment because he hadn't seen the report yet.

According to the report, several nurses told police Roozrokh and another transplant team member examined Navarro in intensive care and were present in the operating room in violation of state law that bars transplant doctors from being involved in the treatment of potential organ donors before they are declared dead.

Navarro, who was born with a neurological disorder, was taken off his breathing tube and prepped for organ donation. A nurse alleged Roozrokh ordered another nurse to give massive doses of morphine and the sedative Ativan intravenously.

She also said the attending physician, Dr. Laura Lubarsky, who signed the death certificate, did not object and deferred to the transplant team. Lubarsky's attorney has said she did nothing wrong.

Navarro did not die within the time frame when his organs would be viable for transplantation.

He was taken back to intensive care, where he died several hours later.