Posted on 03/11/2021 10:59:19 PM PST by Libloather
Ed Buck’s attorneys Tuesday attacked a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy’s declaration that she saw a substance appearing to be methamphetamine along with drug paraphernalia in plain view at the California political donor’s apartment when she was called to the scene of a man’s overdose death.
Buck, 66, is accused of giving drugs to the man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after allegedly being lured across state lines for prostitution. He faces nine felony counts in Los Angeles federal court, plus state charges of running a drug den. The federal case will proceed first, on April 20.
During a Zoom hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder heard from the defendant, attorneys and sheriff’s deputy Grehtel Barraza, who said she responded to a call for service at Buck’s apartment on July 27, 2017, and saw drug evidence in plain view in open drawers of a rolling tool cabinet.
The deputy told the judge that she noticed several “used syringes,” a “bulbous glass pipe” and a clear plastic bag containing a “crystal-like substance” she took to be methamphetamine in open drawers of the red tool chest. Sex toys were also exposed in another open drawer, Barraza said.
Attempting to have the judge throw out the deputy’s sworn declaration, defense attorney Ludlow Creary II questioned whether Barraza could have seen anything in a tool chest which, as Buck alleged, had no open drawers when the deputy was in the room.
Buck, appearing via Zoom from the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, testified that he called 911 that day for help with his friend, Gemmel Moore, who was unresponsive.
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Ed Buck has killed more black men than 99.9% of police officers, but he’s protected by the demonrat pols.
I was wondering if Sheff will be a character witness.
Trust a lib to queer up something like a roll-away tool box.
The Dems have to drop charges on him...it’s just a question of when.
Why do I get the feeling that this murder faggot is going to beat the rap?
That had to be a first.
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