the trial of michael jackson's doctor

[Lady Cop]

very cool Futile and Tiki...i am very fond of the film noir days of LA, the Black Dahlia and all that. you know, the atmosphere.



lots of photos from today at trial start--->

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ts-LA.html

[BlueTiki]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ts-LA.html

Great article.

Brits must use 'American' as code for "White".

If not, the jury is comprised mostly of foreign nationals.

[ZEROSPHERES]

[username]

O.M.G. The defense did say he didn't even have time to close his eyes.

[ZEROSPHERES]

O.M.G. The defense did say he didn't even have time to close his eyes.

[kitty1]

Is anybody watching the trial right now? Dr. Murray's ex-girlfriend is on the stand. It is so funny. She can't focus on the questions because she keeps twirling around in her chair, flirting with the jury and trying to look pretty. She is an aspiring actress ya know!

[Lady Cop]

hahahaha rain causes court delay in LA?

they should get a foot of snow!

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rain on the normally dry Los Angeles roads delayed the start of day six in Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial by a half-hour Tuesday, but it began with an employee of Murray's Houston clinic briefly testifying about a phone call with her boss the morning Michael Jackson died.

A second of three Murray girlfriends took the stand next, but the judge limited what prosecutors could ask about their personal relationships with Murray.

The women's testimony is important, since their phone calls to Murray help establish the time line of what he was doing before Jackson's death, and because the surgical anesthetic propofol the prosecution says killed him was shipped to one of their homes.

Las Vegas pharmacist Tim Lopez, who sold and shipped more than four gallons of propofol to the apartment of Murray's girlfriend, is also expected to testify Tuesday.

The only Jackson siblings in court Tuesday morning are Randy and Rebe Jackson. Katherine Jackson left the country last weekend to attend a Cirque du Soleil premiere in Montreal, Canada, and she is not expected to return until after this weekend's "Michael Forever" tribute in Cardiff, Wales.

Prosecutors argue that Murray, who was Jackson's personal physician as he prepared for planned comeback concerts, is criminally responsible for the singer's death because of medical negligence and his reckless use of propofol to help Jackson sleep.

The coroner ruled that Jackson's June 25, 2009, death was the result of "acute propofol intoxication" in combination with sedatives.

Murray's defense lawyers contend Jackson caused his own death by swallowing eight lorazepam pills and orally ingesting propofol while Murray was out of the room.

Bridgette Morgan, who met Murray in a Las Vegas night club eight years ago, testified Monday that she placed an unanswered phone call to Murray about 30 minutes before the time prosecutors suggest Murray realized there was a problem with Jackson.
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Sade Anding, a cocktail waitress who met Murray when she was working at a Houston steakhouse, is likely to be one of the first witnesses Tuesday. Anding testified at the preliminary hearing in January that she was on the phone with Murray when he suddenly stopped responding to her.

That moment, 11:57 a.m., is when prosecutors contend Murray first realized that Jackson had stopped breathing.

"I didn't hear him on the phone any more," Anding said. "I heard commotion as if the phone was in a pocket and I heard coughing and I heard a mumbling of voices."

Anding said she stayed on the phone for another five minutes, listening and wondering why the man she sometimes dated wasn't responding.

"Hello, hello, are you there?" she testified she said.

Testimony from Nicole Alvarez, the mother of Murray's youngest child, is important because the propofol Murray used on Jackson was shipped to her Santa Monica, California, apartment.

Alvarez, 29, who met Murray around 2005 in a Las Vegas gentlemen's club, made it clear when she previously testified that she knew little about the doctor's activities.

"Dr. Murray and I were on a need-to-know basis, and I just know my place and my position in his life," Alvarez said.

Murray called Alvarez from the ambulance as he accompanied Jackson to the hospital, according to testimony in the preliminary hearing.

The judge ordered lawyers not to disclose to reporters ahead of time who they will call as witnesses, but they've been closely following the order used in the preliminary hearing.

Los Angeles Police Homicide Detective Dan Myers, who led the Los Angeles Police Department investigation of Jackson's death, and Coroner Investigator Elissa Fleak will probably testify Tuesday or Wednesday, based on that pattern.

On Monday, the emergency room doctor who declared Jackson dead testified that there was no way doctors could have revived the pop icon after he arrived at the hospital.

Dr. Richelle Cooper said Murray never told her that he had given Jackson propofol before he stopped breathing, but it would not have made a difference if he had because Jackson "had died long before."

"It is unlikely with that information that I would have been able to do something different that would have changed the outcome," Cooper said.

Prosecutors argue that Murray's failure to tell paramedics and doctors trying to resuscitate Jackson about the propofol is one of the negligent acts that make him criminally responsible for Jackson's death.

Another doctor testified Monday that the decision to place an aortic balloon pump in Jackson's heart was "a desperate attempt, even though very much futile" effort intended "to prepare Dr. Murray mentally to accept the fact that Mr. Jackson could not be rescued and would allow Mr. Jackson to depart in peace and dignity."

Dr. Thao Nguyen said Murray asked that "we not to give up easily and try to save Mr. Michael Jackson's life," Nguyen said, even though it seemed hopeless.

They placed a balloon pump in Jackson's aorta in an unsuccessful effort to restart his heart, she said. "It's not a case of too little, too late, but a case of too late," Nguyen said.

Cooper had recommended at 12:57 p.m., when Jackson was still at his home, that paramedics stop resuscitation efforts and declare him dead. Jackson was the first patient she had ever treated in the emergency room after having made such a recommendation to paramedics in the field, she said.

"I have never given a time of death in the field and then have that patient brought to me," she said.

She said this exception was not because Jackson was a celebrity, but because the patient had a physician with him who did not want them to give up.

Prosecutors have criticized Murray, who is a cardiologist, for using propofol on Jackson, contending it should be used only by anesthesiologists who have proper monitoring equipment.

Cooper, a prosecution witness, acknowledged under questioning by defense lawyer Michael Flanagan that she uses it regularly as an emergency room doctor.

If convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Murray could spend four years in a California prison and lose his medical license.

[trixie]

They showed an autopsy photo today in court. Where is his belly button?






http://www.tmz.com/2011/10/11/michael-ja...pSZJZsUqso

[Lady Cop]

did he have a dick?

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Is that the infamous "Black Box"?

[Lady Cop]

i'm pretty surprised Judge let that photo be released. his family will be very upset and angry.

[Lady Cop]

jury will have it today.

LATimes

A prosecutor in the trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician told jurors on Thursday that the testimony a renowned anesthesiologist gave in Dr. Conrad Murray's defense was "junk science."

The harsh rebuke of the testimony of Dr. Paul White, a leading expert on the surgical anesthetic propofol, came near the conclusion of the prosecution's closing argument. A defense attorney for Dr. Conrad Murray was expected to begin arguing before the jury in the afternoon.

White, who was among the first scientists in the U.S. to study the drug, testified over four days in Murray's defense and said Jackson probably injected himself with the drug and caused his own death.

Pointing out an early opinion White gave in the case that the pop star may have drunk the propofol that killed him, something he later conceded was impossible, Walgren said the expert, a retired University of Texas professor who wrote textbooks on the subject, should not be believed.

"It was garbage science," the prosecutor said. "What Dr. White came in [to court] and did was sad for science, and sad for truth-seeking."

Walgren said White, whom he called "a very notable person in the field of anesthetics," appeared to be consistent only in making one point: that Jackson died by his own hand.

"However he stretches the science ... he's going to find a way to blame this on Michael Jackson," he said.

Walgren told jurors that they should instead rely on the scientific opinions of the government's medical expert, Dr. Steven Shafer, a longtime colleague and friend of White's. Shafer testified that the most plausible scenario was that Murray gave Jackson 40 times more of the drug than he admitted to police.

edit to add:
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The evidence is "overwhelming" and "it's abundantly clear" that Dr. Conrad Murray caused the death of Michael Jackson, the lead prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Jackson's doctor Thursday.

Defense lawyer Ed Chernoff argued there was no crime committed and it's a negligence case that should instead be heard by the state medical board.

"If it were anybody else but Michael Jackson, would this doctor be here today?" Chernoff asked.

The jury heard several hours of arguments from both sides Thursday and will begin deliberations on Murray's fate Friday morning.

[Lady Cop]

verdict reached. waiting. will be read 4 PM eastern.

[Duchess]

I feel sorry for him. I know, I know...just sayin'.

[ZEROSPHERES]

I vote guilty

How about you?

[Lady Cop]

THE CHARGE: involuntary manslaughter. 1 count. GUILTY

sentencing 11/29.

cuffed and remanded into custody. w/o bail.

[Lady Cop]

lots of photos at link




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...death.html

[chinchillas2cool]

I'm sorry but I think it is crazy that they are charging him. If this was anyone else, I don't think it would have gone this far. Yes, I think they should take his Med liscense away, but charges? I just think this is only happening because it was Michael Jackson. I don't want to offend anyone, but this was just another publicity hype on his death. I think he would have overdosed know matter who the doctor was. Conrad was just the one he died under the care of. He was very ill from his addiction to these drugs. Just like any other drug addict that use to much. Sorry just my opinion.

[Adub]

I think he would have overdosed know matter who the doctor was. Conrad was just the one he died under the care of.

Sucks to be Conrad

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[username]

I think he would have overdosed know matter who the doctor was. Conrad was just the one he died under the care of. He was very ill from his addiction to these drugs. Just like any other drug addict that use to much. Sorry just my opinion.

The difference being, most normal addicts wouldn't be under the "care" of a doctor. They'd get their meds from various sources etc. There was a clear trail between Michael and Conrad Murray that you wouldn't typically get with a street addict. CM supplied the drugs and totally violated his oaths as a doctor. Guilty.

I hated watching the trial though. Conrad had a perpetual and pathetic
:( on his face.