Michael Jackson‘s family and executors have called on US news channel MSNBC to cancel its documentary involving Dr Conrad Murray that is scheduled for broadcast on Friday. It is “morally reprehensible to cloak a murderer and convicted felon with celebrity status”, the singer’s sister LaToya Jackson wrote in a letter to network president Phil Griffin. [...]
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November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011
Channel 4 shows Murray interview
11 November 2011 Last updated at 10:01 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Murray was speaking to Steve Hewlett for a Channel 4 documentary, The Man Who Killed Michael Jackson, which aired on Thursday night Dr Conrad Murray, who was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, has defended [...]
November 8, 2011
Jury Finds Dr. Conrad Murray Guilty in Michael Jackson Death Trial
A Los Angeles jury on Monday found Michael Jackson’s physician, Conrad Murray, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of the pop singer. The decision came after a six week trial. It took jurors less than nine hours to convict Dr. Murray. “We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant Conrad [...]
November 8, 2011
Michael Jackson fans applaud Conrad Murray verdict – in pictures
Dr Conrad Murray, the Texas physician who administered a powerful surgical anaesthetic to Michael Jackson hours before the pop singer’s death in 2009, has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter
November 8, 2011
Dr Conrad Murray found guilty in Michael Jackson death case
Michael Jackson’s Texan physician who administered a powerful surgical anaesthetic to the singer hours before his death in 2009, has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The verdict came at the end of a six-week trial in which Murray was slammed for his ‘unconscionable’ professional behaviour and neglect of his celebrity patient. He now faces up [...]
November 8, 2011
Doctor guilty over Jackson death
7 November 2011 Last updated at 23:03 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The judge told the court he was remanding Conrad Murray in custody without bail because he was a convicted felon and a flight risk Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, has been found guilty of the involuntary [...]
November 5, 2011
No quick verdict in Murray trial
4 November 2011 Last updated at 23:54 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Prosecutors ended their case by saying Dr Conrad Murray’s care of Jackson had been “bizarre”, while the defence said the singer had caused his own death. The jury has ended its first day of deliberation in the trial [...]
November 4, 2011
Jackson doctor case goes to jury
3 November 2011 Last updated at 23:24 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Deputy District Attorney David Walgren: “Conrad Murray caused the death of Michael Jackson” The case against the physician charged with the death of the pop star Michael Jackson has gone to the jury, following closing statements. Prosecutors concluded [...]
November 2, 2011
Conrad Murray will not face jury
1 November 2011 Last updated at 19:04 GMT Defence lawyers for Dr Conrad Murray say they will call no further witnesses Dr Conrad Murray has told a judge he will not testify in his own defence in the trial over Michael Jackson’s death. He denies involuntary manslaughter but could face a prison term and the [...]
November 1, 2011
‘Improper care’ given to Jackson
31 October 2011 Last updated at 23:08 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Paul White said during cross-examination that he had never heard of propofol being used in a bedroom Dr Conrad Murray deviated from accepted medical standards in his care for Michael Jackson, a medical expert said. Dr Paul [...]
October 28, 2011
Jackson trial told of ‘addiction’
28 October 2011 Last updated at 02:29 GMT Dr Robert Waldman testified about records from Jackson’s dermatologist Singer Michael Jackson was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol, a witness for the defence in the trial of his doctor, Conrad Murray, has said. Dr Robert Waldman testified that records from Jackson’s dermatologist show the singer was [...]
October 28, 2011
Expert: Michael Jackson likely addicted to pain medication
An addiction expert testifying for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson‘s death told jurors Thursday he believes the singer developed an addiction to a powerful pain medicine in the months before his death. Dr Robert Waldman told jurors that Jackson was receiving “above-average doses” of the painkiller Demerol. “I believe there is evidence that he [...]
October 26, 2011
Jackson ‘warned about sedative’
26 October 2011 Last updated at 09:00 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Cherilyn Lee fought back tears as she gave her testimony on Tuesday Singer Michael Jackson was warned by a nurse practitioner about using the sedative propofol to help him sleep, a Los Angeles court has heard. Cherilyn Lee [...]
October 23, 2011
Fatal dose ‘not down to Jackson’
21 October 2011 Last updated at 02:34 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Steven Shafer: ”The possibility of a direct self-injection seems extremely unlikely” Michael Jackson was so heavily sedated shortly before he died that he could not have self-administered an additional, lethal dose of the sedative propofol, a medical [...]