Andrew Kornfeld, the pre-med student who found Prince dead in an elevator in the singer's Minnesota home, could face criminal charges for possessing Suboxone, a prescription drug used to help fight opiate addiction.

Kornfeld is the son of Dr. Howard Kornfeld, the California addiction specialist who was hired to treat Prince, and he was sent to Prince's estate as a consultant for his father's California outpatient addiction clinic, Recovery Without Walls. Recovery Without Walls had been hired by Prince's representative to begin emergency treatment on the star for prescription drug addiction, Kornfeld's attorney, William Mauzy, said during a press conference on Wednesday.

Kornfeld was carrying a starter dose of Suboxone, which is considered a controlled substance in Minnesota. Without a prescription, anyone found to be in possession of the drug faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The drugs were taken into possession by the Carver County Sheriff's office after Kornfeld found Prince's body and called 911.

Mauzy stated that Kornfeld should be granted "statutory immunity" for possessing the Suboxone without a prescription under Minnesota's Good Samaritan law. Mauzy added that Kornfeld never intended to administer the drugs to Prince; rather, he was planning on delivering them to a Minnesota doctor who Prince was scheduled to meet with on April 21, the day he was found dead.