Ex-Angels executive Eric Kay again appeals his conviction in Tyler Skaggs fentanyl death
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Set us as preferred Eric Kay’s scheduled release from federal prison for supplying the fentanyl-laced pill that resulted in the overdose death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs is Feb.18, 2041.
The former Angels media relations executive would be 67 years old.In his latest effort to have that sentence overturned or at least whittled down, Kay filed a 75-page appeal in Texas federal court Friday, requesting that his conviction be vacated and that judge Terry R.Means order a new trial.
Means ruled earlier this year that Kay could introduce new details pertaining to the evidence that led to his 2022 conviction.The appeal, first reported by the Athletic, centers on Kay’s contention that his trial attorney, Michael Molfetta, pressured him to turn down a plea offer from prosecutors for a 5-to-10-year sentence.
Kay, 52, has already served four years and eight months for giving Skaggs the counterfeit oxycodone pill that contained fentanyl July 1, 2019, shortly after Angels arrived in Texas ahead of a three-game series against the Rangers.The filing also alleges that detective Delaney Green lied when testifying in Kay’s criminal trial that she pulled data from Skaggs’ phone.Another detective with the Southlake (Texas) Police Department actually did so.
Kay contends that the phone could have been tampered with because it continued to receive messages for more than two weeks after Skaggs’ death.Furthermore, when Kay sought to obtain the raw data extracted from Mr.
Skaggs’ phone closest in time to his death, he was told that the police department “no longer has the external hard drive” that contained the data.“The Government’s case against Eric Kay rested on two key allegations,” Kay’s attorneys wrote in the appeal.“First, only Mr.
Kay supplied Mr.Skaggs with pills in the time leading up to his death.
Second, ...