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*A Los Angeles judge has set the parameters for a civil suit by Michael Jackson’s mother against concert giant AEG Live. Katherine Jackson claims the company negligently hired Dr. Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s death. The judge’s rulings Thursday anticipate a three-month trial that will revisit events preceding [...]
*Michael Jackson’s former physician Dr. Conrad Murray has lost his bid for freedom as he appeals his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Dr. Murray was sentenced to four years behind bars after a jury found him guilty of administering the fatal dose of anesthetic Propofol, which cost the King of Pop his life in 2009. He’s fighting [...]
*A lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray has blasted Los Angeles prison officials for treating Michael Jackson’s former physician “like Hannibal Lecter,” insisting it’s “offensive” to keep him in isolation and heavily shackled. The doctor has been behind bars since early November, when he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal dose of anesthetic [...]
*Even though the doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars Tuesday, Los Angeles Sheriff’s officials announced that Dr. Conrad Murray will only serve a little less than two years behind bars due to California’s Realignment Act. The Sheriffs office also said Murray will be [...]
*Dr Conrad Murray has been sentenced to the maximum four years in prison after being found guilty on a count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. But under California’s new Realignment law, the four years are reduced immediately to two years in country prison. The sentencing was handed down by Judge Michael Pastor [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray will face Michael Jackson’s family this morning when he returns to court today for sentencing in the death of the superstar from an overdose of an operating-room anesthetic he was receiving to battle insomnia. Prosecutors want a judge to sentence the 58-year-old Murray to the maximum four-year prison term. Defense attorneys counter [...]
*(Via LA Times) – While prosecutors are asking for a 4 year prison sentence, attorneys for the doctor convicted in Michael Jackson’s death asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the most lenient sentence possible — probation. In court papers filed in advance of Dr. Conrad Murray‘s sentencing Tuesday, his attorneys described the pop star’s [...]
*A judge has turned down a request Monday by lawyers for the doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson’s death to have an independent laboratory test the contents of a key vial of evidence. Just days before the scheduled Nov. 29 sentencing of Dr. Conrad Murray, Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said defense attorneys could have [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray is said to be suicidal while in jail awaiting his Nov. 29 sentencing, reports TMZ. The doctor – who was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson last week – has reportedly told visitors including former girlfriend Nicole Alvarez, his bodyguard Jeff, and his legal team, that he doesn’t want [...]
*Appearing live on the “Today” show this morning, Michael Jackson’s eldest sister, Rebbie Jackson, told Ann Curry she has little sympathy for Murray or his feelings of friendship toward her deceased brother. “I do not (feel sympathetic),” she told Curry. “I don’t, because if you love someone, you’re going to do what you think is [...]
*The documentary film that Dr. Conrad Murray’s camp was shopping way before his guilty verdict on Monday not only has a buyer, but a premiere date this week. Cable network MSNBC said Monday that it will air “Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship” at 10 p.m. ET Friday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray was placed on suicide watch at the L.A. County Jail on Monday, hours after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death and being taken into custody. As previously reported, Murray was placed in handcuffs immediately after the judge ruled he is to remain behind bars pending his Nov. 29 [...]
*Reverend Al Sharpton released a statement expressing “mixed emotions” on the guilty verdict handed to Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray this afternoon. The close friend of the Jackson family and eulogist at Michael Jackson’s funeral states: “I received the news of the guilty verdict in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray with mixed emotions [...]
After 10 days of deliberation, a jury on Monday found Dr. Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. In the six-week trial, prosecutors accused Murray, 58, of recklessly administering a lethal dose of the powerful anesthesia propofol to the King of Pop in June of 2009. Defense attorneys claimed that [...]
*As the world awaits a verdict in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michal Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, two of the singer’s former bodyguards are hoping the physician will be acquitted, believing Michael would’ve never wanted him on trial in the first place. Murray has denied allegations he administered the fatal dose of anesthetic propofol, [...]
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