DR CONRAD MURRAY, GUILTY! JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL JACKSON

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IN THE MANSLAUGHTER OF MICHAEL JACKSON!

• Jury deliberated for just ten hours over the course of two days
• Trial featured 50 witnesses and 22 days of testimony
• Conrad Murray denied bail and left court in handcuffs

Dr. Conrad Murray, the former personal physician of Michael Jackson, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the King of Pop's 2009 death.

California jurors delivered their verdict to a stone-faced Murray on Monday after deliberating for ten hours.

The jury of seven men and five women concluded that the evidence was sufficient beyond any reasonable doubt that Murray caused the sleep-deprived singer's death.

On the ground, John Smith, 60, followed the trial for 33 days outside. "I never thought he would go on to be this huge," he said. "Mike was loved for his human rights, charity and music. Conrad Murray is going to be found guilty."

Kimberly Binion stood outside the courthouse holding a photo of herself and Michael Jackson from when they were both teens. She has been following the trial since it began and this is her first day outside to hear the verdict. "I think that Conrad Murray should get second-degree murder. Manslaughter is not enough," she told reporters.

The judge has ordered jurors' personal information sealed.

Before the verdict was read, crowds outside the courthouse were chanting "Guilty, guilty, guilty" and "This is it, this is it" -- not only signaling the resolution of a lengthy investigation, but recalling the name of the tour Jackson was working on at the time of his death.

THE JUDGE OF THE CASE!
The Judge: Michael E. Pastor

A renowned and respected LA Superior Court Judge for 27 years, the New Yorker has made sure that evidence in the trial was limited to Michael Jackson’s final days and hours.
He has presided strictly over the case, trying prevent it from turning into a lengthy media circus. Over the years Judge Pastor has handled a significant number of very serious and complicated felony matters, including charges of multiple murder, sex offenses, and fraud.
In addition, he was also assigned to handle the case involving the photographer charged with attempted grand theft and forgery against Cameron Diaz.
He graduated from Cornell University in 1971 and worked in New York City for a year before beginning law school.

Murray has been remanded without bail, and scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 29.

IT IS DONE!!! JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL HAS BEEN SERVED!

THE MICHAEL JACKSON MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL OF CONRAD MURRAY DAYS 8 & 9

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OMG! MJ’s Naked Autopsy Pic Shown in Court

 

Plus, autopsy doc says MJ could not have given himself propofol

 

*Prosecutors in Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial showed an image of Michael Jackson’s dead, naked body on a gurney in the hospital — taken moments after the singer died, reports TMZ.
The date shown near his hand reads August 25th, 2009 — but the autopsy doctor Christopher Rogers claims the date was wrong … it should have read June 25th.

Also, Rogers, who declared Michael Jackson’s death a homicide, claims it’s extremely unlikely the singer killed himself with a deadly dose of Propofol — insisting Dr. Conrad Murray is more likely to blame.

He said Murray’s description of the final moments leading up to Michael’s cardiac arrest just doesn’t add up.
Murray claims he left for two minutes to go to the bathroom — and when he returned, Michael wasn’t breathing. The defense will argue MJ self-administered a deadly dose of Propofol in that time.
But Rogers insists … Murray’s scenario is nearly impossible — because in that two minute window, MJ would have had to wake up (under the influence of several powerful sedatives) and skillfully administer the deadly dose … which would then have had to travel to his brain, causing him to stop breathing.

What’s more likely, according to Rogers — Murray administered several doses of Propofol in the hours leading to Michael’s death without properly measuring them out, resulting in an overdose.

Also today in court Dr. Murray’s Team Drops Claim MJ Swallowed PropofolAttorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray told the judge in his manslaughter trial that they were dropping their claim that Michael Jackson swallowed propofol when Murray was out of the room. However, the defense is still arguing that the singer could have injected himself with an extra, fatal dose on June 25, 2009.

With the jury out of the courtroom on Wednesday, Murray’s attorneys and prosecutors presented medical studies to the judge that have shown propofol has no major effects on a person when swallowed.
“We are not going to assert at any point in time in this trial that Michael Jackson orally ingested propofol,” Murray’s attorney J. Michael Flanagan told the judge.
Murray has admitted giving the 50-year-old Jackson 25 milligrams of propofol.
Also this morning, a cardiologist testified that Dr. Murray made major mistakes in giving the singer the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep.

Dr. Alon Steinberg, a cardiologist who reviewed Murray’s treatment of Jackson for the California medical board, said even if the singer administered propofol to himself, the physician still would be responsible for his death.
“It’s like leaving a baby that’s sleeping on your kitchen countertop,” Steinberg said. “You look at it and it’s probably going to be OK and you’re just going to go grab some diapers or go to the bathroom but you would never do it.”
Steinberg said Murray displayed six “extreme deviations” from the generally accepted standard of care.

Those were:
Administering propofol for sleep when it is meant for anesthesia
Administering the propofol at a home instead of a medical facility
Not being prepared for an emergency with enough staff and equipment on hand
Not taking the proper measures to revive Jackson when the singer stopped breathing
Not immediately calling for an ambulance
Not keeping proper records

“If these deviations hadn’t happened, Mr. Jackson would have been alive,” Steinberg said.
Murray, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter, faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

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Bedside Lined with Pill Bottles. Michael Jackson trial: Second tape of singer's slurred speech is played

Six weeks before Michael Jackson died, his doctor recorded the semi-comatose superstar mumbling what might have been his farewell address to the world

In a slow, slurred voice, clearly under the influence of sedatives, Jackson spoke about leaving a performance legacy bigger than Elvis or The Beatles, and building a fabulous hospital for children with proceeds from his highly anticipated "This Is It" comeback concerts.

"Elvis didn't do it. Beatles didn't do it. We have to be phenomenal." Jackson is heard saying on the tape.

Jackson, known for donating huge amounts to children's charities, said his vision was driven by his love of children. In his ramblings, he envisioned the hospital would be big enough to aid a million children, with a movie theater and game room.
"That will be remembered more than my performances," he says. "My performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream. I love them. I love them because I didn't have a childhood ... I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it."
The full tape of the May 10, 2009, soliloquy by Jackson was played for the first time Wednesday during the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. A portion of the recording was played last week during the prosecution's opening statement.

The more than four-minute audio recording was found on Murray's cell phone by forensic digital expert Stephen Marx. There was no indication why Murray made the recording. 

With Murray murmuring agreement, Jackson referred to the children of the world as "angels" and said, "God wants me to do it. I'm gonna do it, Conrad."

Murray replied, "I know you would."
And, as he had done long ago with his Neverland ranch, he spoke of a place to raise children's spirits. "They're sick because they're depressed," he said.

The tape was played by prosecutors to show that Murray knew for weeks how Jackson was reacting to heavy sedatives the doctor was administering to help his patient sleep.

Toward the end of the recording, there is a period of silence before Murray asks, "You OK?"
Eight seconds pass then Jackson mumbles, "I am asleep."
Marx, an investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified Wednesday that he retrieved another recording from Murray's phone and other files that showed he was busy emailing, texting and handling messages about insurance for Jackson's concerts during the time the singer was believed to be under the influence of the powerful anesthetic propofol.

Authorities contend Murray gave Jackson a lethal dose of the drug and other sedatives in Jackson's bedroom on June 25, 2009. Murray's attorneys say Jackson gave himself the fatal dose.
Prosecutors claim the doctor was too distracted to give his patient adequate care and allowed him to die on his watch.
Murray has pleaded not guilty. He could face up to four years behind bars and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

One voicemail message left for Murray came from Jackson's late manager, Frank Dileo. 

"Dr. Murray, it's Frank Dileo," he was heard saying on the June 20, 2009, voicemail. "I'm Michael's manager. I'm the short guy with no hair.

"He had an episode last night. He's sick," Dileo says. "I think you need to get a blood test on him. We've got to see what he's doing."
In the days ahead, the jury will hear from Murray himself, though it will be through a more than two-hour interview that police conducted with the doctor two days after Jackson's death. The defense has not said whether Murray will take the stand.

In later testimony Wednesday, coroner's investigator Elissa Fleak described what she found in Jackson's bedroom hours after the singer's death. The items included prescription medications and a small, empty vial of propofol discovered by the singer's bedside.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren held the vial between his thumb and pinky finger before showing it to Fleak and jurors on a projector.
Fleak said she and other investigators returned to Jackson's home four days later and recovered several bags from his closet that contained other bottles of propofol, including one that had been placed inside an IV bag. Some bottles were full, others were partially empty.

Authorities say the return trip was prompted by details Murray offered to detectives during the interview on June 27, 2009, that will be played for jurors in the coming days. 

Walgren removed 37 bottles of propofol and other medications from evidence bags, labeled them with exhibit numbers, and placed them on the edge of the table where prosecutors sit.

By the end of the afternoon, the bottles formed two long rows on the table directly in front of jurors.
Fleak also identified a graphic photo of Jackson's lifeless body in a hospital gown that was shown on a large courtroom screen.
His brother, Jermaine Jackson, broke down and wept quietly, wiping his eyes with tissues. At the afternoon break, he left court and didn't return.

Walgren, his hands swathed in latex gloves, showed the witness and jurors 63 separate pieces of evidence from the bedroom, including what was described as medical debris stashed in three separate bags in a closet.
The items included torn packaging from IV bags, syringes and needles, catheter tubing and bloody pieces of gauze.
One small duffel bag decorated with a polka dot bow was marked, "Baby Essentials." It contained propofol, the drug Jackson referred to as his "milk."

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Michael Jackson's doctor's girlfriend mentions packages, pharmacist cites propofol orders…

Alvarez, a 29-year-old actress, spoke at Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial on October 4. The doctor served as Jackson's personal physician in the months prior to his death on June 25, 2009. At that time, he was also married to another woman.

Meanwhile, a pharmacist in Las Vegas, where the doctor kept a clinic, said Murray had ordered from him 255 vials of propofol, anti-anxiety drugs, tubes of the skin whitening cream Benoquin and saline IV bags, but did not disclose Jackson's name or the identities of any other patients to him.

Autopsy results have shown that Jackson died at age 50 on June 25, 2009 from an overdose of propofol, an anesthetic that he called his "milk," and other sedatives. Murray, 58, has said he gave the singer a dose of propofol as a sleeping aid on the day he died. He has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Murray faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted. The doctor's lawyers maintain that Jackson drank propofol and consumed other medications on his own while the doctor was away from his bedside at the singer's Los Angeles home, that the dose of propofol Murray had administered was too low to be fatal and that he was trying to wean him off the drug.

Alvarez said the doctor lived with her in Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, and paid her rent. She said he often traveled to work at his medical offices in Houston and Texas and never mentioned treating patients in California, other than Jackson. Prosecutors say Murray did not maintain an office in the state.

Alvarez confirmed that between April and June 2009, packages addressed to Murray were delivered to her address. She said she never asked him what was inside the boxes, which were usually taken to her apartment. She said she would typically have to sign for them, but that they were sometimes left in the lobby.

"(Murray said he) was going to be receiving something, that if there was a knock at the door there was going to be a delivery, that I could retrieve it for him," Alvarez said. "I would always check the lobby to see if there was anything for myself or Conrad. I do recall picking up a package in the lobby area."

Tim Lopez, who owned and managed a "specialty" pharmacy in Las Vegas, testified that Murray contacted him for the first time in November 2008 about acquiring tubes of the skin whitening cream Benoquin. He said the doctor said the medication was for his "many African American patients" who suffered from vitiligo. Lopez said Murray did not mention any names. He said the doctor placed an order for 40 30g tubes of the cream in March 2009.

Lopez said Murray picked them up in person at the pharmacy and then inquired about having them delivered to his Las Vegas office. He said that on April 3, 2009, the doctor called and said he was "happy" with the results of the cream and also "asked me specifically to find pricing and availability of propofol and normal saline IV bags."

Lopez said that to his knowledge, his pharmacy had never sold propofol before. He said that three days later, Murray made his first order of the drug - requesting 35 vials, - including 10 containing 100 ml and 25 containing 20 ml, more tubes of Benoquin and 9 saline IV bags and had the products delivered overnight via Federal Express. They arrived at his Las Vegas office the following day.

Lopez said that when the courier arrived there, Murray took him to a back room and removed several propofol vials from the box. The doctor, Lopez said, "had the courier call me at my office. Dr. Murray, speaking through the courier to me, (asked) if we can mail the rest of the shipment to his other office in Los Angeles. He read the address through my courier and it was an address in Santa Monica."

The place in question was Alvarez's apartment, prosecutors say. One of Murray's lawyers asked him if medications must be shipped to a clinic or an office, to which Lopez said he knew of no such official regulation, but that due to the "nature of the medicine," he would sent such drugs only to such locations.

Jackson, who was born to a black family but has appeared white since the mid-1980s, suffered from vitiligo, which causes parts of the skin to appear discolored.

The singer's assistant, Michael Amir Williams, had testified on September 28 that while he was waiting at the hospital before Jackson was pronounced dead, Murray asked that he be driven to Jackson's home to retrieve a "cream" in the singer's room "that he wouldn't want the world to know about." Search warrants have showed that 30 tubes of skin whitening cream were found at Jackson's home after his death.

Jackson had confirmed that he had vitiligo but has never talked about using such products.

Receipts from similar orders made by Murray, sent to the Santa Monica address, were shown, ranging from April to June 15, 2009. Along with additional vials of propofol, the doctor also ordered containers of the injectable anti-anxiety drugs Lorazepam and Midazolam, as well as Lidocaine cream, an anesthetic and antiarrhythmic drug often used to numb an injection area, to be sent there as well.

Prosecutors say that between April and June 2009, Conrad Murray ordered 255 vials of propofol, equalling 155,000 total mg, or 15.5 litres or 4.09 gallons. Lopez confirmed the number of vials ordered. He also confirmed that Murray ordered from him 20 vials of Lorazepam and 60 vials of Midazolam.

MURRAY CALLED GIRLFRIEND FROM AMBULANCE!!

Alvarez said that beginning in about March 2009, months before the singer's death, Murray left almost every night around 9 p.m. to treat the singer at his house and return in the morning, between 6 and 8 a.m. The doctor has said he would administer drugs to help the singer, who suffered from insomnia, sleep and added that he was exhausted from his rehearsals for his upcoming London tour.

Prior to his death, the singer was preparing for a 50-show residency at the city's O2 arena. Murray was set to be paid $150,000 a month to become his doctor and accompany him on the tour. Alvarez said she was preparing to travel with the doctor.

She said she did not recall saying in a previous testimony that Murray's contract was faxed to her home, adding: "If it was in the fax machine it was in the fax machine. "I'm not his secretary or his assistant."

Alvarez said Murray sometimes brought her to Jackson's home, adding: "Michael Jackson was very interested in the baby. He saw my stomach grow with the pregnancy and he wanted to schedule visits so he could see my son."

Sources close to the investigation of the singer's death say that none of the fingerprints found in the bedroom or in Murray's possession belonged to Jackson, which may deal a blow to the doctor's lawyers' theory about the singer consumed extra propofol secretly, ABC News reported on Tuesday, October 4.

Associates of the singer have testified that on the day of Jackson's death, they saw Murray attempting to revive the singer in a bedroom in his home before paramedics arrived. Two EMTS and two doctors have testified that Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest and showed no signs of life.

Murray insisted that Jackson be taken to UCLA Medical Center, even after one of the paramedics was told over the phone by one of the facility's doctors to pronounce the singer dead at his home. Jackson arrived at the hospital 1:13 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. on June 25, 2009.

"Mr. Jackson was my patient and I didn't really have an explanation for why he was dead," emergency room doctor Richelle Cooper said on Monday. "In my mind it was a coroner's case."

Thao Nguyen, a cardiologist, said Murray asked doctors to "not give up easily" in their attempts to revive the singer. She also said Murray was unable to tell her much time had passed between the moment he discovered Jackson in a bedroom in his home, not breathing, and the time 911 was called, adding: "He said he did not have any concept of time, he did not have a watch."

Murray rode in the ambulance that carried Jackson to the hospital and a paramedic had said that he made a cell phone call. Phone records shown to the jury on Tuesday showed that Murray called Alvarez's home number at 1:08 p.m. that day.

"I remember him telling me that he was on the way to the hospital in the ambulance with Mr. Jackson and for me not to be alarmed," she said.

She said she made attempts to reach Murray by phone throughout the day but that she could not recall if they spoke. The doctor, Alvarez said, showed up at her apartment that afternoon. She said she did not know how got there..

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Doctor at Murray trial: Jackson couldn't have been revived in ER

NEW: First of three Murray girlfriends takes the witness stand Monday

Doctor testifies Jackson couldn't have been saved even if Dr. Murray had told about propofol
Balloon in Jackson's heart was "to prepare Dr. Murray mentally to accept" his death, doctor says

The emergency room doctor who declared Michael Jackson dead testified Monday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray that there was no way doctors could have revived the pop icon after he arrived at the hospital.
Dr. Richelle Cooper testified Friday that Murray never told her that he had given Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol before he stopped breathing, but she said Monday 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.

Doctor: Jackson was 'clinically dead' Murray patient not referred to new doctor Nguyen: 'Murray had no concept of time' Nguyen: Murray told doctors of pulse

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.
Monday was the fifth day of testimony in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, which is expected to last at least four more weeks.
The trial resumed without Jackson's mother. Katherine Jackson left Los Angeles for Canada with her son's three children during the weekend to attend Sunday's premiere of Cirque du Soleil's "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" in Montreal. A source close to the Jackson family said she would not return to the trial at least until October 10, since she will also travel to Cardiff, Wales, for a tribute concert for her late son.

Jackson family members in court Monday morning included siblings Janet, Rebbie, Randy and Jermaine.

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.
Dr. 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 them 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.
A Houston, Texas, doctor called by the prosecution Monday paid Dr. Murray a compliment Monday afternoon, saying she was "impressed" with Murray's ability to remember a patient and that patient's treatment when she called him "out of the blue."
Dr. Joanne Bednarz-Prashad's testimony was important for the prosecution because she is one of the several people who spoke to Dr. Murray on the phone the morning Jackson died. Prosecutors say he effectively abandoned Jackson by leaving his bedroom to talk on the phone that morning.
Dr. Bednarz-Prashad called Murray's cell phone to get his advice on a patient he had treated who was about to undergo surgery at a Houston hospital. Most doctors she calls in such circumstances have to call back after consulting medical charts, she said, but Murray recalled the correct information immediately.

Prosecutors also called the first of three of Murray's girlfriends to the witness stand to talk about their conversations with the doctor just before he realized Jackson had stopped breathing
The judge prevented the prosecution from digging into the personal relationship between Murray and Bridgette Morgan, who previously testified at Murray's preliminary hearing about meeting the married doctor in a Las Vegas night club in 2003.

Morgan's call to Murray came about 30 minutes before Murray apparently discovered there was a problem with his patient.
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 in January that she was on the phone with Murray when he suddenly stopped responding to her just before noon the day Jackson died.

That is the moment 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.
The timing of the phone call is key to the prosecution's time line of when Murray realized his famous patient was dying. Based on testimony so far, the moment came at 11:57 p.m.

Nicole Alvarez, the mother of Murray's youngest child, may follow them on the witness stand. Her testimony is especially 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.
Representatives from two cell phone companies testified Monday morning about records of calls to and from Murray's cell phones the morning Jackson died. The call times play a key role in determining the time line of what Murray was doing in the hours before Jackson's death.

The judge instructed lawyers not to disclose their witness list ahead of time. However, the prosecution has been following the same order of witnesses used in Murray's preliminary hearing in January.

Los Angeles Police homicide Detective Dan Myers, who led the Los Angeles Police Department investigation of Jackson's death, is likely to testify Tuesday or Wednesday.
Los Angeles County Coroner Investigator Elissa Fleak will probably testify within the next two days about searching Jackson's home after his death. She said at the preliminary hearing that she found seven pill bottles on the nightstand next to Jackson's bed and an empty bottle of propofol on the floor near his bed.
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.
The judge imposed a gag order Friday, preventing lawyers for Murray from talking to reporters about the case. His order came after he learned Matt Alford, a law partner to lead defense lawyer Ed Chernoff, gave a television interview to NBC's Ann Curry on Friday morning.

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

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ER Physician Says Murray Didn't Mention Propofol

During the fourth day of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of Michael Jackson, Murray didn't come off looking particularly good. One paramedic who responded to the 911 call said that the story Murray told him at the scene "did not add up," adding that Murray didn't mention Propofol among the drugs that Jackson had taken. (He also brought into question the timeline that Murray presented when asked how long Jackson had been down.)

Another paramedic, describing Murray as "flustered" and "sweating profusely," told the court that Murray scooped up three bottles of lidocaine from the floor and stashed them in a bag while Jackson was about to be transported to the hospital.
And the attending physician at the hospital on the day of Jackson's death also noted that Murray failed to mention Propofol when the singer was brought to the emergency room.

And somehow in all this, the world found out that Michael Jackson was taking Flomax.

It's still too early to say how this is all shaping up for Murray -- his defense team is expected to claim that Jackson administered the fatal dose of Propofol to himself, while Murray was trying to wean him off of it. However, read on for a comprehensive review of today's events in the trial of Conrad Murray.
The attending physician at UCLA Medical Center emergency room on the day of Michael Jackson's death testified Friday that Conrad Murray, Jackson's private physician, didn't indicate that the singer had taken Propofol at the hospital.

Dr. Richelle Cooper (pictured) testified at Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial that Murray made no mention of Propofol -- which contributed to Jackson's death -- when quizzed about medications that the singer had taken.

Cooper testified that Murray said he had merely given Jackson the anti-anxiety medication Lorazepam -- a two-milligram dose via IV, followed by a second two-milligram dose -- after which Jackson went into arrest.
Asked what medications Murray took regularly, Murray told Cooper that he took the anti-anxiety medication Valium, and Flomax, which treats symptoms related to an enlarged prostate.
According to Cooper, Murray told her that Jackson had no history of cardiac trouble, blood clots or drug use, and hadn't complained of chest pain or exhibited seizure activity. Cooper further told the court that she witnessed no signs of physical trauma on Jackson's body.

Murray told Cooper he had been treating Jackson for dehydration, as he had been working long hours, according to the physician's testimony.
Asked by prosecutors what Jackson's condition was when he arrived at the hospital, Cooper concurred with what emergency responders had testified earlier in the day -- that Jackson was already gone.
"His condition was as described by the paramedics -- he was clinically dead," Cooper testified. "He did not have a pulse … his eyes were fixed and dilated."
According to Cooper, Jackson's heart rhythm was "was slow and wide with no palpable pulses" -- what Cooper called the "sign of a dying heart."

Los Angeles paramedic Martin Blount -- who was among the responders to the 9/11 call on the day of Michael Jackson's death -- testified at the involuntary manslaughter of Dr. Conrad Murray on Friday that there were three open vials of the anesthetic lidocaine in Michael Jackson's bedroom when they arrived at the scene.
Blount (pictured) described how the vials were scattered on the floor of the room. He also testified that, when asked by fellow paramedic Richard Senneff about drugs that he administered to Jackson, he made mo mention of lidocaine.
Blount also testified that he saw Murray scoop up three of the bottles and put them into a black bag as they prepared to transport to the hospital.
According to Blount's testimony, Murray was in a hectic state as emergency responders arrived in the bedroom.

"He was a little flustered; he was sweating profusely and he was agitated," Blount told the court.
Blount described Jackson's eyes as "fixed and dilated" when paramedics arrived.
"I felt he was dead, ma'am," Blount told the prosecutor.
According to Blount, Murray made a phone call in the ambulance as they transported Jackson to the hospital at UCLA.
"It's about Michael, and it doesn't look good," Blount recalled Murray saying.

Richard Senneff, a paramedic who answered the 911 call at Michael Jackson's home on the day of the singer's death, told the court during Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial Friday that the situation "did not seem normal" when he arrived at the scene.

Senneff (pictured), of the Los Angeles Fire Department, detailed multiple red flags that he noticed on the June 25, 2009 call, including Murray's responses to his questions.
Senneff testified that, when he asked Murray what Jackson's underlying heath issue was, Murray failed to respond the first two times he asked, and eventually responded that there was no underlying issue.

"Simply, that did not add up to me -- doctors in the house, IV pole, IV hooked up to the patient -- it simply did not seem normal" that there would be no underlying condition, Senneff testified.

As expected, Senneff also testified that, when he asked Murray what medications Jackson had been taking, he he didn't mention Propofol, which was found to contribute to the singer's death.
"He said, 'No he's not taking anything,' then he followed that up by saying, 'I just gave him a little bit of Lorazepam to help him sleep," Senneff told the court.
Eventually, Murray told Senneff that he'd been treating Jackson for dehydration and exhaustion.

Senneff also noted that, when he asked when Jackson went down, Murray told him that it had occurred just as he had placed the 911 call -- which gave Senneff the impression that "we had a good chance of saving" Jackson. However, when paramedics hooked up an EKG, he was flatlining, and the drugs paramedics gave Jackson in order to re-start his heart had no effect.

According to Senneff, Murray also told responders that he had felt a pulse in Jackson's right femoral region, though when Senneff checked the heart monitor, it only indicated signs that Jackson had been given CPR.

Senneff also told the court that, the second time that paramedics attempted to administer starter drugs to Jackson, they weren't able to find a vein -- which suggested that blood circulation might have stopped earlier than expected.
Said Senneff of Jackson's condition, "When I first moved the patient, his skin was very cool to the touch."

Senneff further testified that, when he contacted the hospital at UCLA, they were prepared to call time of death at 12:57 p.m., due to the two unsuccessful efforts to resuscitate him with starter drugs. However, Jackson was still being ventilated as they transported him downstairs to the ambulance.
Asked if he noticed any sign of life in Jackson the entire time he was with him, Senneff said, "No, I did not."

Murray's defense team is likely to use the fact that Chase didn't take the initiative to call 911 to cast the blame for Jackson's death away from Murray.

CNN reports that the defense team will also try to direct some of the responsibility for Jackson's overdose on another doctor, Dr. Arnold Klein, the Beverly Hills dermatologist who reportedly gave Jackson frequent doses of Demerol in the weeks leading up to his June 2009 death.

The defense claims Murray didn't know Jackson was taking Demerol at the same time Murray was treating him with propofol.

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Jackson doctor's trial: More witnesses to tragedy

Day Three of the Michael Jackson death trial wrapped up Thursday after lengthy testimony about what Conrad Murray, the doctor on trial for involuntary manslaughter, did in the moments before and after paramedics were called for the unresponsive singer.

Most of the testimony was by security guard Alberto Alvarez, an eyewitness to Murray's frantic attempts to revive the singer in his bedroom on June 25, 2009.
Prosecutors say Murray had negligently administered a fatal overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. Murray has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers contend Jackson self-administered the drug.

Alvarez said he saw Jackson on the bed, arms outstretched, eyes and mouth open. Murray told him Jackson had had a "bad reaction." Murray was giving Jackson chest compressions with one hand and said they had to get Jackson to a hospital. Jackson was wearing a penis catheter to carry urine away, Alvarez said.
Daughter Paris Jackson followed Alvarez in, crying and screaming "Daddy!" Alvarez said. He got Paris and her brother, Prince, out of the room at Murray's request, the witness said.

Murray scooped some vials off a nightstand and placed them in a bag Alvarez held open for him at the doctor's instruction. Murray then asked him to remove a clear saline bag from an IV stand and place it in another bag, Alvarez said.

That bag and a 100-milliliter bottle of propofol that Alvarez said he saw in the bag were shown to the jury.
Alvarez said he thought Murray was packing the material to take it to a hospital.
"I believed Dr. Murray had the best intentions toward Michael Jackson. So I didn't question his authority at the time," he told prosecutor David Walgren.

Later, defense attorney Ed Chernoff asked him, "Do you have any reason to think that Dr. Murray would want to conspire with you to hide evidence?"

Walgren objected to the question, the judge sustained the objection, and Alvarez did not answer.
Alvarez testified that at the bottom of the saline bag was "what appeared to me like a milky-white substance." Propofol is milky white and Jackson referred to it as his milk, witnesses have said.
Alvarez said that after he had placed vials and the IV bag in bags for Murray, the doctor asked him to call 911.

The call was played in court. In it jurors heard Alvarez tell fire department staffers that a 50-year-old man on the bed is not breathing and not responding to chest pumping.
"We have a personal doctor with him, sir," Alvarez reported.
"Oh, you have a doctor there?" the emergency tech asked. "Yes, but he's not responding," Alvarez said.
The 911 tech instructed Alvarez to move Jackson from the bed to the floor and said an ambulance was on the way.
Alvarez said he saw Murray clip a pulse oximeter to Jackson's index finger before they jointly placed Jackson on the floor.

He said Murray was giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After breathing into the singer's mouth a few times, Alvarez said, "he came up and he said, 'This is the first time I do mouth-to-mouth. But I have to, because he's my friend.'"

Chernoff cross-examined Alvarez, asking if he could have been "confused" and misstated the timeline, and that Murray could have asked him to place the vials and saline bag into other bags after the 911 call, not before. Alvarez insisted that it was before he called 911 and that he had time to do it all.

Chernoff suggested that not enough time had elapsed between when Alvarez was phoned to enter the residence from the security trailer at 12:18 p.m. and the call to 911 at 12:20 p.m., based on telephone records, for all the events Alvarez recounted — including ushering Prince and Paris from the bedroom — for him to have handled the vials and bag.

Beefy and crew-cut, Alvarez told prosecutor Walgren that he has turned down offers of as much as $500,000 for his story. He said his involvement in the tragedy has financially ruined him. His Jackson salary is gone and he gets only sporadic one-day security work for celebrities, he said.

Alvarez was followed to the witness stand by Jackson's Paris-trained personal chef, Kai Chase.
She testified that between 12:05 and 12:10 p.m., a distraught Murray ran partway down the back stairs to the kitchen screaming. "His energy was very nervous and frantic," she said, "and he was shouting, 'Get help! Get security! Get Prince!'"
She said, "He was very flustered, his eyes were big, he was screaming."

She summoned Prince from the den, she said, and did not call security.

Later, she said, she saw the three children and housekeepers in the foyer, "crying and screaming."
"We started hugging and we came together. We all joined hands in a circle and said a prayer."
"My heart is still broken," she said. "It was a very devastating day."
Tday, prosecutors are expected to call the two Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics who responded to the 911 call, Richard Senneff and Martin Blount.

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Guard describes scene in room where Jackson found

The last days of Michael Jackson's life were filled with the adulation of fans, a rehearsal performance onlookers described as amazing and intense preparations for his big comeback in London.
In good spirits, Jackson chatted with well-wishers outside his home and at the Staples Center where he practiced songs and dance routines before he returned home. Then, things took a tragic turn, according to Jackson's personal assistant, Michael Amir Williams, who testified Wednesday in the trial of the doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the superstar's death.

Williams, who had gone with him to the rehearsal and had dropped Jackson at home, said he got a frantic call the next day from Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray. "He said, 'Get here right away. Mr. Jackson had a bad reaction.' He said, 'Get someone up here right away,'" Williams told the jury.

A security guard, Faheem Muhammad, testified that he arrived at Jackson's bedroom to find Murray sweating and nervous, leaning over Jackson and trying to revive him. He said that Jackson's two older children, Paris and Prince, were in shock, and that Paris fell to the ground, curled up and weeping.

Moments later, Muhammad said, he heard Murray ask if anyone knew CPR.

The testimony on the second day of the trial helped shed light on what Murray did and didn't do after he found Jackson unconscious in June 2009. Murray, 58, has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could face up to four years in prison and would have to relinquish his medical license.

On June 24, 2009, the day before Jackson's death, Murray was in negotiations to join Jackson on his tour as his personal physician, testified lawyer Kathy Jorrie of concert giant AEG Live. She said she was gathering information for an insurance company to make sure Jackson was in good health and could be insured.
"Dr. Murray told me repeatedly that Michael Jackson was perfectly healthy, in excellent condition. Don't worry about it. He's great," she recalled.

Jorrie said Murray had added to his contract a provision for a CPR machine when they got to London for the highly touted show that would include 50 concerts over nine months. "He needed to be sure if something went wrong he would have such a machine available," she said. "He also told me it was customary."
Murray signed the contract, which would give him $150,000 a month, and faxed it to her that night, she said. Jackson, however, would never get to sign it.
In the late afternoon of June 24, Williams said he arranged for a car and accompanied his boss to Staples Center for a key rehearsal. He said Jackson was in good spirits and had the car stop at the gate so he could roll down the window and chat with fans who were always camped there.

"He would make sure we stopped, stick out his hand, anything to show his fans he loved them," he said.
Williams managed to watch Jackson on stage. "I was an employee but I was a fan first," he said. "I would try to sneak in to watch him. I was working constantly, but I was able to see him perform a little."

How was his performance, asked Deputy District Attorney David Walgren."Personally, I thought it was amazing," Williams said. "I thought it was the best thing in the world. He had told me he didn't go 100 percent for the rehearsal. It was about 40 percent. But I thought it was great."

They returned to Jackson's rented Holmby Hills mansion after that, stopping at the gate again. "He was in good spirits," Williams said. "He wanted to stop and say, 'Hi.' He even had some conversation with the fans."

Outside the house, parked in its usual spot, was Murray's car.
Williams brought in gifts that had been given to Jackson and said good night. Williams checked out with the security staff and went home. The next day at 12:13 p.m. his cell phone rang. There was a message from Murray.

"Were you asked to call 911?" Walgren asked.
"No sir," Williams said.

He remembered reaching Jackson security guard Alberto Alvarez. "I said, 'I don't know what's going on but you have to get in the house' ... I said, 'Run. Hurry.'"
Williams said he rushed from his downtown home and arrived just as Jackson's body was being loaded into an ambulance. He helped to gather Jackson's three children and put them in a car to follow the ambulance."What was Dr. Murray's appearance?" Walgren asked.
"Frantic," he said. "I knew it was serious."

Williams said he was standing outside the emergency room area when Dr. Murray and a group of doctors emerged. "He walked out and closed the curtains," he said softly. "He said, 'He passed.'"
At one point, Walgren had Williams identify a photograph of Jackson's children. The famous photo was taken at a memorial service shortly after Jackson's death was projected on a large courtroom screen.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Ed Chernoff questioned Williams about Murray's actions at the hospital. He said Murray asked to be taken back to Jackson's home to collect some cream he believed Jackson would not want the public to know about. It was later found to be skin whitening cream that is used in the treatment of vitiligo, a skin condition that the singer had.
Williams said he felt police would not want anyone returning to the home and he did not take Murray there. He then said the doctor said he was hungry and asked for food.
Chernoff suggested that Williams should have known from Murray's call that there was an emergency.

Williams disagreed.
"When I hear someone had a bad reaction, I don't think anything fatal," he said. "He didn't tell me to call 911."

Under questioning from Chernoff, Muhammad revealed that Jackson had asked Williams to contact a nurse four days before his death because he was experiencing "weird symptoms."
"One of his hands was hot and his feet were cold," Muhammad said. He told Chernoff that he did not reveal that he had contacted the nurse, Cherilyn Lee, during interviews with police. He said he wasn't asked about it and didn't think it was relevant.

Chernoff has been questioning witnesses about Jackson's interactions with other physicians, including dermatologist Arnold Klein. Muhammad said at times, Jackson visited Klein's office almost daily. A judge has blocked Klein from testifying in the case.

Jackson died on June 25, 2009 of acute propophyl intoxication. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter for having administered drugs illegally, and having allegedly abandoned basic principles of medical care.

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