News Roundup

Jasveen Sangha, dubbed the “Ketamine Queen,” pled guilty on Wednesday to selling Matthew Perry the drugs that resulted in his death, as reported by the AP and ABC news. Perry was found dead at his home in Los Angeles, California, on October 28, 2023. Prosecutors said that Perry bought ketamine from Sangha four days before his death. Sangha pled guilty to five federal charges, including one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10. Read on for more criminal law news. Flying Too High. Kenneth Jouppi, a bush pilot in Fairbanks, Alaska, filed a petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court last week, contending that the forfeiture of his airplane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine, as reported by Reason Magazine and local sources. In April 2012, Jouppi was preparing to fly a client 110 miles north to Beaver, Alaska, a dry community (with a population of about 80) that does not allow for the importation, sale, or possession of alcohol, when state troopers arrested him and seized the plane, which was found to contain beer. In April 2025, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the forfeiture. The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm that filed the petition with the Supreme Court on Jouppi’s behalf, contends that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment was built for cases like this. Stabbing Did Not Occur Inside Laundromat. James Monroe [...]