Judge rejects Kay’s request for a new trial

A federal judge rejected Eric Kay’s request for a new trial Tuesday, more than two months after a jury found the former Angels communications director guilty of providing counterfeit oxycodone pills that led to the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

In a one-paragraph order filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, Judge Terry R. Means wrote that Kay’s motion should be denied “for the reasons urged by the government.”

After Kay’s legal team filed a motion last month for a judgment of acquittal and a new trial, prosecutors assailed the move as having “no reasoned basis” and failing to show “prejudice, let alone the kind of miscarriage of justice that would warrant a new trial.”