A Los Angeles man charged within the 2018 overdose loss of life of rapper Mac Miller has agreed to plead responsible in a deal that might ship him to jail for 17 years, in response to court docket paperwork.
Stephen Andrew Walter was one in all three males indicted in 2019 within the loss of life of Miller, who died of a fentanyl overdose the 12 months earlier than.
He agreed to plead responsible to 1 depend of distribution of fentanyl in a plea settlement with prosecutors filed this week. Each side agreed on a sentence of 17 years in jail, in response to the doc. A choose should settle for the deal.A change of plea listening to is scheduled for Nov. 8.
Miller, whose actual title was Malcolm McCormick, died at 26 after being discovered unresponsive at his Studio Metropolis residence on Sept. 7, 2018. His loss of life was dominated an unintentional overdose of cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl.
Walter admitted within the plea settlement that he “directed” one other man, Ryan Michael Reavis, to distribute counterfeit oxycodone drugs that contained fentanyl to Cameron James Pettit.
Pettit then allegedly gave the drugs to Miller. Pettit and Reavis are the opposite two individuals charged.
Walter’s plea settlement says that Miller, recognized in that doc as M.M., “wouldn’t have died from an overdose however for the fentanyl contained within the drugs.”
Walter’s lawyer didn’t instantly return a request for remark Wednesday night time.
The lawyer, William S. Harris, informed Rolling Stone that “it is a binding plea settlement for 17 years.”
“The choose will both settle for or reject it. If he accepts it, there will probably be no energy to condemn my shopper to extra. If he rejects it, there’s no deal,” Harris informed the journal.
Federal prosecutors have beforehand stated that Pettit agreed to provide Miller with 10 “blues,” which means drugs containing oxycodone, however delivered counterfeit drugs that contained fentanyl. Pettit allegedly ordered the drugs from Walter, and Reavis allegedly delivered the drugs to Pettit.
Pettit and Reavis have each pleaded not responsible.
Reavis’ lawyer, Correen Ferrentino, stated Wednesday that “Mr. Reavis acknowledges the tragic lack of life related to these fees,” and plans to defend himself at trial in March.
An lawyer for Pettit didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Wednesday night time.
Miller had lengthy rapped about his battles with habit.
However his profession was in an upswing with the discharge of his fifth album, “Swimming,” and a tour was scheduled to kick off in October of that 12 months.
