Though prosecutors said sentencing guidelines called for Mr. Fleming to be given 46 to 57 months, they argued for a \u201cdownward departure,\u201d saying in court papers that he had quickly accepted responsibility for his crimes and had agreed to cooperate with the government\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors wrote that Mr. Fleming had \u201cprovided information to law enforcement, including identifying Sangha as the source of the ketamine that defendant supplied to Mr. Perry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Fleming is the fourth of five people charged in connection with Mr. Perry\u2019s death to be sentenced. Ms. Sangha, whom prosecutors called \u201ca more culpable defendant,\u201d was sentenced in April to 15 years in prison<\/a>. Two former doctors, Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, were each sentenced in December. Mr. Plasencia received 30 months in prison<\/a> and Mr. Chavez received three years of supervised release<\/a>, including eight months of home detention.<\/p>\n Mr. Iwamasa is scheduled to be sentenced this month.<\/p>\n Mr. Fleming\u2019s lawyers had asked for a \u201csplit sentence\u201d of 12 months: three months in prison and nine months in a residential drug treatment facility, where they said he could \u201ccontinue the hard work he has put into maintaining his sobriety.\u201d<\/p>\n In the lawyers\u2019 sentencing memorandum, they said the death of Mr. Fleming\u2019s stepmother had sent him into a \u201ctailspin,\u201d causing him to relapse into heavy drug use and fall into a depression. He ended up \u201cjobless and penniless, living on the couch of his younger sister\u2019s home, feeling worthless, despondent and alone,\u201d according to the memorandum.<\/p>\n It was then, in early October 2023, that Mr. Fleming got a phone call and a text message from a close friend, who told him that, while she had been helping obtain ketamine for Mr. Perry, she could no longer do so because she was \u201cstuck in a drug treatment program,\u201d the sentencing memo said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe asked Mr. Fleming to help her out by finding the ketamine Mr. Perry wanted,\u201d the lawyers wrote, adding later that \u201cin a moment he will regret forever, Mr. Fleming agreed to help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though prosecutors said sentencing guidelines called for Mr. Fleming to be given 46 to 57 months, they argued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14898,5230,17354,17353,8,17355,17361,17356,17351,11904,17357,17352,9,9869,17358,17359,17360,1529,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-28473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-actors-and-actresses","9":"tag-chavez","10":"tag-erik-film-director","11":"tag-fleming","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-iwamasa","14":"tag-jasveen","15":"tag-kenneth","16":"tag-ketamine-drug","17":"tag-los-angeles-calif","18":"tag-mark-doctor","19":"tag-matthew","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-perry","22":"tag-plasencia","23":"tag-salvador","24":"tag-sangha","25":"tag-television","26":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116570188866712255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}