Mega Predator Ed Buck Could Walk Free Today — Here’s What’s Happening
convicted on charges after he injected gay men with methamphetamine leading to two deaths and other overdoses, has asked a federal judge to overrule the jury’s guilty verdicts.On Monday in Los Angeles, U.S.
District Judge Christine A. Snyder will hear a motion for judgment of acquittal. The motion rests on the claim that the evidence at trial was insufficient for a conviction.
In other words, the defendant argues that no reasonable jury could possibly find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A defendant can ask a judge to acquit on all of the charges or just some counts.Attorneys for Ed Buck will argue that 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, who died on the floor in Buck’s West Hollywood apartment in 2017 of a methamphetamine overdose, died of AIDS.
They will also argue that 55-year-old Timothy Dean who also died on the floor in Buck’s apartment of an overdose in 2019, died of severe coronary artery disease.
