died there in January 2019. Prosecutors say Buck had a fetish for drugging Black men with whom he had sexual encounters, and that Moore and Dean were among many with whom he engaged.Buck was “obsessed” with the practice of “party and play,” which involves drugs and sex, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Chelsea Norell told jurors in the trial, which opened this week in Los Angeles.“The party is the drugs, the play is the sex,” she said in her opening statement Wednesday, according to City News Service. “If they didn’t party, he wasn't interested.”But one of Buck’s lawyers, Christopher Darden, said this is “conduct millions of people engage in” and that the men who died in Buck’s apartment had underlying medical conditions that led to their deaths..