LOS ANGELES, CMC – The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office on Monday charged Grenadian-born Dr. Conrad Murray with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the American pop star, Michael Jackson last year.
He faces four years in jail if found guilty.
The authorities allege that Dr. Murray, who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, provided the singer with a powerful anesthetic that was a “major factor” in his sudden death in June last year.
Prosecutors said the charges cap an investigation that revealed Jackson’s heavy reliance on narcotics, including propofol, an anesthetic normally used in surgery but administered to Jackson, 50, as a sleep aid.
According to police affidavits, Dr. Murray, a cardiologist with offices in Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, had acknowledged giving Jackson the drug shortly before the singer was found unconscious on June 25 in a rented mansion here.
The coroner determined that Jackson had died from “acute propofol intoxication,” combined with other sedatives.
Dr. Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, said his client would plead not guilty.
Jackson had hired Dr. Murray to be his personal physician as he prepared for a strenuous series of comeback performances in London.
T o Michael Jaskson fan. Is like Michael have to live forever. They just want to press a black man. Hold strong doc. The man was a drug addict and a child M.
@ GIVE THE DOCTOR A BREAK!!!
I totally agree with you. Michael has been taking these drugs for a number of years prior to the hiring of Dr. Murry. It is just so unfortunate that this black doctor had to step into the picture at this juncture because he will take the blame for all the sheet that the other falkers did.
Michael Jackson was a ery talented man, his songs will always be remember, but Jackson knew the risks of those pills he was taking and therefore i dont believe that the guy who prescribed those pills should beheld responsible. he didnt forse Jackson to take those pills.
.. SO MUCH FING PILLS DAT MAN TAKE IT HAD TO HAVE ONE POINT IT HAD TO KILL IS .. LOL DE MAN IS A DISGRACE TO BLACK MAN ALLU PPL JUST THINK MR WAS SO … MUCH TO HELL WITH MR. BUT HEAR DE MOST STUPIDISH … HOW CAN IT BE DE DOC NUH DAT KILL DE MAN. IF AM DE DOC I GETTING TENS OF THOSAND A MONTH FOR MY SALARY WOULD I WANT TO KILL DAT MAN. THEY WANTED SOMEONE TO BE BLAMED SO THEY JUST GO AFTHER DE MAN DOC DE MAN IS TO BE BLAIMED FOR HIOS WON DEATH. SO LONG DE MAN TAKEING DEM PILLS SO LONG EH AND ALLU WANT TO SAY IS THATS THE CAUSE OF DE MAN DEATH ALLU PPL DAT BLAMEING THE DOC . GOD GO PUNISH ALLU SKIN. F MJ.
OHHH PLEASE….DONT BE REDICULOUS!
PRAISE THE dEVIL THEY GOT SOME ONE TO BLAME….mj MUST HAV BEEN SUPPER…THT HE COULDNT DIE ON HIS OWN…THEY JUST HAD TO BLAME SOMEONE.
mj TOOK ALL KINA DRUGS FOR HIS WEIRD KINA LIFE…PLEASE YOULL BE REAL…LET HTE GUY dOCTOR MOVE ON WITH HIS LIFE.
DONT TRY TO DIG .. THAT AINT THERE.
MICHAEL …..HE TOOK PILLS WHICH HAD A REACTION TO OTHER PILLS THAT HE WAS ALREADY TAKEN.
SO SAID SO DONE BOOM BAM BAM!
GET ON WITH YOU ALL LIVES.
Let Micheal rest in peace, he was a very good guy, dont matter what people say about him.
He has help the poor and the needy, he had a heart. So, if some one really did this to micheal, they have to pay for this dont matter who, or what but some body have to pay for their crime amen
Micheal you will be always always be in my heart, i love you boy.
They just want to use the guy as a scape goat.
give him 20 years instead
Dr. Murray is just the fall guy for the murder of MJ. The front man. There are other people behind the scene that ordered the elimination of MJ very probably for money and greed reasons.
There is no reason that propofol should ever have been in use outside of a hospital.
I wonder if the real truth of who was behind it ever comes out.
oh micheal. why did that doctor did that i am so furious