He said Buck's sexual abuse as a child and health problems that led to his drug addiction were mitigating factors. “No one to hold his hand or tell him good things.”ĭefense lawyer Mark Werksman sought a 10-year term - half of the mandatory minimum of 20 years Buck faced and well below the 25 years recommended by the probation department. “All I can think about is how my son died naked on a mattress with no love around him,” Nixon said. Nixon, a certified nursing assistant who said she had prayed with and comforted countless dying people, broke down as she thought of the way her oldest child died. Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, joined Cannick and several other friends and family members of the deceased to ask the judge for the maximum sentence. He donated more than $500,000 since 2000 to mainly Democratic causes. He was also convicted of four counts of meth distribution, two counts of enticing men to travel across state lines for prostitution and a count of maintaining a drug den.īuck managed to avoid arrest for more than two years after Moore's death and family and community members led by political strategist Jasmyne Cannick complained that he escaped prosecution because of wealth, political ties and race. Buck continues to pose a clear danger to society.”īuck was convicted in July of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Gemmel Moore in 2017 and Timothy Dean in 2019. “This defendant preyed upon vulnerable victims - men who were drug-dependent and often without homes - to feed an obsession that led to death and misery,” United States Attorney Tracy L.