Some barely escaped with their lives. District Court to 30 years in federal prison for injecting two men with lethal doses of methamphetamine as part of a fetish that turned fatal. Prosecutors, who sought a life term, said Buck had such disregard for life that even after the two deaths in his apartment, he did not stop paying men to come to his home and injecting them with walloping doses of methamphetamine. One man overdosed twice in the course of a week.
Wilkison said. Buck continues to pose a clear danger to society. Buck was convicted in July of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Gemmel Moore in and Timothy Dean in He was also convicted of four counts of meth distribution, two counts of enticing men to travel across state lines for prostitution and a count of maintaining a drug den. Nixon, a certified nursing assistant who said she had prayed with and comforted countless dying people, broke down as she thought of the way her oldest child died.
Defense lawyer Mark Werksman sought a year term β half of the mandatory minimum of 20 years Buck faced and well below the 25 years recommended by the probation department. In a husky voice, he said he had not caused their deaths but expressed condolences to their families β something they said he never did after their deaths. Buck, who worked as a model and then made a small fortune selling an Arizona company he rescued from bankruptcy, said he tried to live a good life devoted to political causes that would make his world a better place.
His political activism began with efforts in to recall Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, who was ultimately convicted in an impeachment trial and kicked out of office.
Buck said he started an AIDS information organization in the s, marched for gay and human rights and championed a ban on fur sales in West Hollywood.
