LOS ANGELES (AP) — A girl charged with promoting Matthew Perry the dose of ketamine that killed him is headed for a September trial.
Jasveen Sangha’s trial — the one one forthcoming within the demise of the “Friends” star after 4 different defendants reached plea agreements with prosecutors — is now set to start Sept. 23 after an order Tuesday from a federal choose in Los Angeles.
The 42-year-old Sangha, who prosecutors say was recognized to her prospects as “The Ketamine Queen,” is charged with 5 counts of ketamine distribution, together with one rely of distribution leading to demise. She has pleaded not responsible and has been held in federal custody since her arrest final 12 months.
Her trial had been scheduled to begin Aug. 19, however the choose postponed it for the fourth time since her April 2024 indictment after each side agreed it must be moved.
Sangha’s attorneys mentioned they wanted the time to undergo the massive quantity of proof they’ve obtained from the prosecution and to complete their very own investigation.
Sangha was one of many two greatest targets within the investigation of Perry’s demise, together with Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who pleaded responsible to ketamine distribution final month. Perry’s private assistant, his buddy and one other physician additionally entered responsible pleas and are cooperating with prosecutors. All are awaiting sentencing.
Perry, who was discovered lifeless at age 54 at his house on Oct. 23, 2023, had been getting ketamine from his common physician for therapy of despair, an more and more frequent off-label use for the surgical anesthetic.
However prosecutors say when the physician would not give Perry as a lot as he wished, he illegally sought extra from Plasencia, then nonetheless extra from Sangha, who they are saying offered herself as “a star drug seller with top quality items.”
Perry’s assistant and buddy mentioned of their plea agreements that they acted as middlemen to purchase giant quantities of ketamine for Perry from Sangha, together with 25 vials for $6,000 in money just a few days earlier than his demise. Prosecutors allege that included the doses that killed Perry.
