Case DIH-0686
Saad Jalal
A Canadian medical student on a clinical rotation in Washington who offered to get MDMA for women he had met at a bar; in September 2019 he obtained what was actually MDA, and a 21-year-old Falls Church woman who took it died.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Virginia
- State
- Virginia
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2021
- Drugs
- MDA (sold as MDMA)
- Conduct
- Intermediary
- Relationship
- Acquaintance
- Conviction
- Distribution of MDA (death resulted)
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 12 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Virginia’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Virginia in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFormer medical student sentenced fatal party drug overdose
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