Posted on 07/26/2021 2:25:12 AM PDT by Libloather
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (CNS) -- Jury deliberations are expected to begin in the federal trial of former political donor Ed Buck, who is accused of providing methamphetamine to two men who died in his West Hollywood apartment.
A prosecutor told jurors Friday that Buck caused the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean as a result of his "fetish" for injecting men with increasing doses of methamphetamine until they became comatose, but the defense countered that the victims had underlying medical conditions that ended their lives.
"He would find desolate, vulnerable victims and push meth on them over and over ... until they went unconscious,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsay Bailey said in her closing argument.
"That's what he liked about it -- the power gave him sexual gratification. ... Every time he stuck a needle in someone's arm, he was playing God. And he never stopped -- not even after two men died,'' Bailey added.
However, Ludlow Creary II, one of Buck's attorneys, argued that his client actually did nothing more than enjoy party-and-play sessions involving drugs and sex with men he met online. It had nothing to do with Buck that two men who suffered from serious medical conditions would die at his apartment 18 months apart, the attorney said.
"This is a subculture, a lifestyle that may be shocking to some of us,'' Creary said during his summation. Everyone involved was there voluntarily.''
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>>but the defense countered that the victims had underlying medical conditions that ended their lives
How’d that defense work in the case of the death of George Floyd?
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