Celebrity Legal Cases

Dr. Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in June to four counts of unlawful ketamine distribution in connection with actor Matthew Perry’s death; he has agreed to surrender his medical license and had faced exposure of up to 40 years. Perry’s family urged the maximum sentence—with stepfather Keith Morrison calling Plasencia the “most culpable”—while Plasencia said he accepts the court’s sentence “with humility and deep remorse,” and his defense said the clinic “filled a void” in the community.