Michael Jackson’s personal physician on trail for involuntary manslaughter

Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician is  facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death, He defense will suggest the singer actually killed himself, a prosecutor said during a hearing today.”I do think it’s clear the defense is operating under the theory that the victim, Michael Jackson, killed himself,” said Deputy District Attorney David Walgren.”They don’t want to say it but that’s the course in which they are going.” The statement came at a hearing where a lawyer for Murray collided  with the prosecutor over who should test remnants  from two syringes found in Jackson’s bedroom.Defense attorneys  refrained   from commenting  on any theories of defense outside court and said lawyers were still investigating the case. Attorneys said, A preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin January  4, 2010, after which Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor will decide if there is enough evidence to hold Dr. Conrad Murray for trial. The issue of remnants in the syringes is unlikely to be brought up in that hearing. Michael  Jackson died on June 25, 2009, of acute Propofol intoxication,along with other sedatives found to have been a contributing factor. Flanagan told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor that a huge amount of the anesthetic Propofol ,possibly 150 milligrams would have had to be present in Jackson’s body to reach the level that killed him. He noted that Dr. Murray has said he gave him only 25 milligrams of the drug along with small amounts of benzodiazopines , a sedative drugs to help him sleep.

Flanagan said a broken syringe was found on the bedroom floor in addition to a syringe in an intravenous medication bag. He said a fingerprint found on the broken syringe hasn’t been identified.

There has been suggestions that during a short period when Murray left Jackson room , possibly desperate for sleep, could have injected himself with more of the Propofol.One of the hardest factors for Murray’s defense team is the fact that the doctor spoke to investigators several times in the days after Jackson’s death, a move Chapman Holley said might have been ill-conceived. “You usually don’t want your client to talk to the police in order to not be locked into a time line,” she said, suggesting that by giving investigators a minute by minute account of what he was doing prior to Jackson’s death, Murray might have committed himself to an account of events that he will not be able to deviate from. “People who feel like they didn’t do anything wrong naturally want to talk to the police, but it’s almost always not a good idea from a criminal law standpoint. You lock yourself into that time line, and the police are trying to build a case against you, so they act real nice, but really they just want to hear what happened as they’re gathering evidence against you.”