Posted on 08/05/2021 2:06:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Defense attorneys have filed a motion to have Ed Buck’s convictions for providing the drugs that killed two men in his West Hollywood apartment overturned, arguing that the government “utterly failed” to prove any of the federal charges beyond a reasonable doubt, according to court papers obtained Wednesday morning.
An attorney for Buck wrote in the motion for acquittal that the two men, Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, suffered multiple underlying medical conditions that caused their deaths, not the methamphetamine they ingested, the document filed Tuesday contends.
“There is no interpretation of the evidence that overcomes reasonable doubt,” defense attorney Ludlow Creary wrote.
After just 4 1/2 hours of deliberations on July 27 - the four-year anniversary of Moore’s death - a federal jury in downtown Los Angeles found Buck guilty of the nine felony counts he faced.
Buck, the former WeHo political player - who donated more than $500,000 to mostly Democratic causes and served in 2016 as one of California’s electoral college members - was convicted of two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death, stemming from the deaths of Moore in July 2017 and Dean in January 2019. Those charges both carry 20-year mandatory minimums.
Buck was also convicted of enticing Moore and another man to travel to Los Angeles to engage in prostitution; knowingly and intentionally distributing methamphetamine; and using his West Hollywood apartment for the purpose of distributing narcotics such as methamphetamine, and the sedatives gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and clonazepam.
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They just thought of it. Should've had a V-8.
It’s like, no one ever thought to use this argument before. What a putz.
It’s like, no one ever thought to use this argument before. What a putz.
Adam Shiff and Ted Lieu should be character witnesses.
Need to turn over one more leaf and find the Shifty one.
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