Mass. Man Pleads Guilty In 'best Man' Overdose

The Massachusetts man accused of providing the prescription drugs that led to the 2010 overdose death of the best man at a Stamford wedding, pleaded guilty Thursday to reduced charges that will land him two years in jail. When police and medics arrived at 10:30 a.m., they found Poti unconscious with numerous empty liquor bottles around the room, as well as a tray used to crush up cocaine, as well as the prescription painkiller Percocet and a straw used to inhale the narcotics, Papagni's arrest warrant states. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death an accident caused by an overdose of cocaine, oxycodone and alcohol. Papagni's attorney Eugene Riccio said after Thursday's hearing that the case was too risky to take to trial with the state willing to drop the manslaughter charge and put a two-year jail sentence on the table. Riccio said the state had its work cut out for it to prove the manslaughter charge, but there was a real risk a jury could have come back with a guilty verdict on the drug sales charges, which each carry a maximum 15-year jail sentence.

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