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*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 [...]
*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 [...]
*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 [...]
*A defense witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor was fined $250 on Wednesday, but was spared payment of an expected $1000 for calling another witness a “scumbag,” reports Reuters. Propofol expert Dr. Paul White was ordered to pay $250 for repeatedly introducing information in his testimony based on his private conversations [...]
*An expert currently testifying for the defense in Dr. Conrad Murray’s trial is suggesting that Michael Jackson could have risen from his bed, taken a syringe left by the physician and injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol. The testimony of Dr. Paul White has slowly been picked apart and at times [...]
*Patients of Michael Jackson’s doctor described the physician on Wednesday as generous and kind as the defense sought to humanize the man charged in the singer’s 2009 death. Dr. Conrad Murray has admitted giving Jackson the anesthetic propofol — the drug deemed the chief cause of his death — as a sleep aid but he [...]
*Michael Jackson was unconscious backstage before a London news conference for his “This Is It” concert series, and he appeared drunk during the announcement itself, an attorney said in court on Monday. [Scroll down to watch.] The revelation came during a hearing in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Jackson’s former physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, a [...]
*A 12-person jury was selected on Friday to hear the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s former doctor. The panel of seven men and five women includes one man who said he briefly met Jackson when he worked at Walt Disney Co in the 1980s when the singer was starring in the “Captain EO” film that [...]
*Michael Jackson’s longtime dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein will not testify in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, a judge ruled on Monday, in a blow to defense plans to portray the singer as a drug addict who may have given himself the substance that caused his death. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor also [...]
*The jury in the upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor will not be sequestered, despite a request by defense lawyers who expect the case to be “the most publicized in history.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor ruled against removing the jurors from their homes during the four- to six-week trial starting [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray’s legal team filed legal papers claiming sequestering the jury during the Michael Jackson manslaughter trial is the only way to protect him and the system from Nancy Grace type “character assassinations,” reports TMZ. In legal papers obtained by the website, Dr. Murray’s lawyers argue the only reason the Anthony jurors were untainted [...]
*With lawyers raising a new theory involving money and its role in Michael Jackson’s death, a judge is summoning a third panel of prospective jurors for the involuntary manslaughter case against Dr. Conrad Murray, reports the AP. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor, who has already screened 340 prospects and cleared 147 of those for availability, [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray, charged in the death of Michael Jackson will have to wait a while longer for his trial after a judge on Wednesday postponed opening statements until May. Dr. Murray consented to the postponement after his attorneys and prosecutors said they could be ready for his involuntary manslaughter trial by then, a transcript [...]
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