A Louisiana man who injected his fiancée — both were addicted, his lawyer said — got life without parole. In Pennsylvania two years ago, Caleb Smith, an aspiring doctor who had just completed a master’s degree in biomedical sciences, gave his girlfriend what he thought was Adderall, purchased on the internet, but was actually fentanyl.
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A Louisiana man who injected his fiancée — both were addicted, his lawyer said — got life without parole. In Pennsylvania two years ago, Caleb Smith, an …
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The funeral of Len Bias in Washington, D.C., in 1986. Mr. Bias's cocaine-related death led some states to begin passing laws that classified providing drugs that caused a fatal overdose as murder.CreditTom Reed/Associated Press
Detective Jared Istre of the Lafayette Police Department, who investigated the case, found video of Mr. Handley planning the kidnapping as well as checklists that he had made and evidence showing that he rented the van and bought the handcuffs used by the two kidnappers, prosecutors said.
The men, Sylvester Bracey and Arsenio Haynes, drove off the interstate, turned down a dead-end gravel road, and were penned in by the police, prosecutors said. Both men tried to escape by swimming through a canal, prosecutors said. They drowned.
Handley had run software and vitamin businesses and had been the chief executive of a series of drug treatment centers that sold in 2015 in a deal worth about $21 million, Ms. Handley said.
Schanda Handley was at home with her daughter and a neighbor when two men showed up at the door, dressed in what looked like blue uniforms from an appliance store.
Mr. Stockstill said the case presented a “tough set of facts” for his client, and he didn’t want to risk a life sentence for Mr. Handley.
Lawrence Handley, 53, a business executive from Lafayette, La., pleaded guilty this week to three criminal charges after a plot to kidnap his estranged wife went badly awry.
For two months, she said, she had live-in security at her house.
Castle's secretary said the judge "can't comment because the Code of Judicial Conduct prohibits her from commenting on ongoing proceedings."
After requesting twice for Duhon to remain silent, Castle finally had enough and ordered his mouth shut.
Defense attorney Adams objected to the use of duct tape on his client, which was removed following his request. The minutes didn't say how long the duct tape stayed on Duhon's mouth, although he did ask the judge to remove Duhon from the courtroom instead of using the primitive method.