The doctor accused of giving Matthew Perry Ketamine in the weeks leading up to his death from an overdose of a “friend” star, is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday.
Dr. Salvador Placencia will be the fourth of five people charged in connection with Perry's death to plead guilty.
Placencia was supposed to be on trial last month until last month when doctors agreed to plead guilty to the distribution of four counts of ketamine.
He had previously pleaded not guilty, but in exchange for a guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three additional distributions of ketamine and two forged records.
Placencia's lawyers emphasized in an email, “After reaching an agreement that Matthew Perry had not been treated at the time of his death, the ketamine that caused Perry's death was not provided by Dr. Placencia.”
The remaining charges can be sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison, and there is no guarantee that he will be less, but he may do so. Placencia was free soon after his arrest in August. He will not be declared until a future hearing.
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The only defendant who has not reached an agreement with the US lawyers' firm is Jasveen Sangha, a drug dealer known as the “queen of ketamine” who claims that the prosecutor is selling Perry at a deadly dose. Her trial is scheduled to begin next month. She pleaded not guilty.
According to the prosecutor and co-defendant who reached his deal, Placencia illegally supplied Perry to him on October 28, 2023, about a month before his death.
According to the co-defendants, Placencia could be exploited for money in a text message called Actor A “Silly”.
Perry's personal assistant, his friend, and another doctor all agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation as the government tried to make their claims against the bigger targets, Placencia and Sanga. It has not been declared yet.
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Perry is found dead by his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa. Prosecutors determined that ketamine, which is usually used as a surgical anesthetic, is the main cause of death.
The actor used the medication through his regular doctors in legal but off-label treatment for depression, which is becoming more and more common. Perry, 54, began looking for more ketamine than the doctors gave him.
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Placencia admitted that in a plea agreement that another patient had linked him with Perry and connected him about a month before Perry's death, he illegally supplied the actor with a vial of ketamine totaling 100 mg of ketamine and a lozengen and syringe of ketamine.
He has allowed another doctor, Mark Chavez, to enlist in the military to supply him with medicine, according to court filings.
According to Chavez's legal agreement, Placencia texted Chavez.
After selling Perry for $4,500, Placencia reportedly asked Chavez if he could continue to supply Perry as “good” to him.
Perry has been suffering from addiction for years, when he went back to “friend” and became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bin. He starred with Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Cudlow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons on NBC's Megahut from 1994 to 2004.
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