Stan Lee’s Ex-Manager Vindicated in Court

Late Marvel legend Stan Lee’s former supervisor Keya Morgan, who was accused of stealing simply over $200,000 from his former employer’s property, has had the accusations towards him dismissed by a choose, according to Variety.

The jurors had been divided 11-1 in favor of acquitting Morgan, and Judge George Lomeli stepped in and declared a mistrial. He excused the jury and dismissed the case, saying that he did so “in the interests of justice.” Morgan was additionally accused of elder abuse in the direction of the tip of Lee’s life, although as Variety reviews, these “charges of elder abuse and false imprisonment were dismissed before the trial.”

Alex Kessel, Morgan’s protection lawyer, said that “the defense showed somebody else beside my client got the cash… I think the judge made the right call so my client can go on with his life.” As the commerce notes, J. C. Lee—Stan Lee’s daughter, who has had her personal authorized points concerning her father’s property—was known as by Kessel to testify on this trial as a part of the protection’s argument that “J.C. got the money,” not Morgan.

The battles over Stan Lee’s property, cash, and mental property—which started even earlier than the comics titan’s loss of life in 2018—have been fraught and deeply unhappy to observe from the sidelines; hopefully, because the authorized points get resolved, his lasting popular culture legacy will probably be what folks discuss as an alternative.

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