Jury gets Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death case against Angels
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An attorney for the Los Angeles Angels pressed Tyler Skaggs’ wife and his mother about the pitchers’ illicit drug use and spending habits during testimony in an ongoing wrongful death trial on Monday, Dec 8, as the high-profile case entered what is expected to be the final week of testimony.
Kay is serving 22 years in federal prison for providing the fentanyl-laced pill that Skaggs ingested, leading to his death on July 1, 2019. Jurors were provided jury instructions laying out facts about Kay’s criminal conviction, including that fentanyl was a “but-for” cause of Skaggs’ death, and that Kay provided the fatal pill.
Attorneys for the Angels aimed to paint a longer arc of drug and alcohol abuse by Tyler Skaggs in the wrongful-death lawsuit against the club.