Matthew Perrys 'Dr. P' faces sentencing for supplying actor with ketamine before death

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A physician who supplied ketamine to “Friends” star Matthew Perry in the weeks leading up to the actor’s death is scheduled to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a sentencing hearing.Salvador Plasencia, known to Perry as “Dr.

P,” according to court filings, pleaded guilty to four felony counts of ketamine distribution in July.He was one of five people charged last year in connection with Perry’s death in October 2023.Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence Plasencia to three years, acknowledging that Plasencia did not provide the ketamine that killed the actor.

But, the prosecutors said in a sentencing memo, the doctor’s “egregious breaches of trust and abandonment of his oath to ‘do no harm’ undoubtedly contributed to the harm that Mr.Perry suffered.”Plasencia’s attorneys asked that he be placed on three years of supervised release.“Given the punishment Mr.

Plasencia has already experienced, and will continue to experience for many years to come, a sentence of imprisonment is neither necessary nor warranted,” his lawyers wrote in a sentencing memo.“He has already lost his medical license, his clinic, and his career.”Perry’s parents detailed their grief in emotional victim impact statements submitted ahead of sentencing.

Suzanne and Keith Morrison, Perry’s mother and stepfather, wrote that they believed Plasencia “is among the most culpable of all.”“Sometimes it’s a little easier to understand when a person commits a terrible crime.Maybe in the heat of passion, or because that person makes one very bad decision.

Or some drug dealer, bad to the bone, who takes the calculated risk of getting caught and spending many years in prison.But … a doctor? Who trades on respect, and trust?” they wrote.

“No one alive and in touch with the world at all could have been unaware of Matthew’s struggles.But this ...