Thursday, March 28, 2024

Accused Killer Ed Buck Hires Christopher Darden as His Defense Attorney

Ed Buck Hires Christopher Darden as His Defense Attorney

*Christopher Darden, best known for prosecuting O.J. Simpson, has taken on yet another controversial client… he’s now representing Ed Buck

Buck, 65, is the wealthy Democratic donor charged in two overdose deaths of Black males at his Los Angeles apartment. Darden will be defending him against charges from a Federal grand jury that he gave methamphetamine to Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55, that resulted in their deaths, the Daily Mail reports. 

Buck was arrested in September after a third man narrowly escaped death when he overdosed in his apartment. He is also charged with providing meth to three more men, including one who overdosed, the report states.

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Ed Buck Hires Christopher Darden as His Defense Attorney

Darden confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that he is representing Buck. Local activists are calling him ‘a traitor and sellout’.

Jasmyne Cannick, who for years pushed for prosecutors to bring charges against Buck, said Darden “won’t earn any goodwill with black people.”

“It’s no accident that Ed Buck hired a black man to represent him. Christopher Darden has chosen to represent a man accused of causing the deaths of two black men that we know of and almost killing several others by targeting them and then injecting them with one of the most deadliest drugs on the streets: crystal meth.

“This falls right in line with Darden’s history of questionable clients, most recently representing the man who killed Nipsey Hussle. Well, until he received so many death threats he quit.

“This won’t earn him any goodwill with Black people who already see him as a traitor and sellout and his client is guilty.

“However, what I’m more interested in knowing is how Ed Buck is getting his money to afford an attorney like Darden. Why haven’t the authorities been able to pinpoint Buck’s source of money? The same money that afforded him the ability to buy the drugs used to lure the men who died in his apartment and countless others who didn’t die. Let’s get an answer to that question.”

Buck has been denied bail and is being held in a Los Angeles jail. His trial has been delayed until late next summer at the earliest, court records show.

If convicted of the federal charges, Buck faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life without parole.

Darden recently represented Eric Holder, the man charged with killing rapper Nipsey Hussle. He withdrew from the case after receiving threats against him and his family.

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