LOS ANGELES \u2014 A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to show some epic resilience,\u201d Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha, echoing the defendant\u2019s words earlier in the hearing about her self-improvement.<\/p>\n
Citing the unique role Sangha admitted to playing in Perry\u2019s death and her broader drug-dealing business, the judge gave the 42-year-old a sentence that will almost certainly be more than all four of her co-defendants combined.<\/p>\n
The hearing Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom was in many ways the pinnacle of the 2\u00bd-year investigation and prosecution that followed the overdose death of the 54-year-old actor, whose role as Chandler Bing on NBC\u2019s \u201cFriends\u201d in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of the era.<\/p>\n
Keith Morrison, Perry\u2019s stepfather and correspondent for NBC\u2019s \u201cDateline,\u201d told the judge that he and Perry\u2019s mother, Suzanne, feel a \u201cdaily, grinding sadness and sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a spark to that man I have never seen anywhere else,\u201d Morrison said. \u201cHe should have had another act. Two more acts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[723,724,720,48,52,51,47,50,49,46037],"class_list":{"0":"post-259208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-criminal-justice","10":"tag-criminal-law","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-matthew-perry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}