Attorneys in Conrad Murray trial prepare closing arguments

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From left, Defense Attorney J. Michael Flanagan and Dr. Conrad Murray during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Nov. 1, 2011.

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(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray are taking Wednesday off to prepare for closing arguments, which are scheduled to begin Thursday.

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Jurors hearing the case against Murray will not hear directly from the man whose fate they will soon be asked to decide.

Instead the panel will have to choose whether to convict or acquit Murray based on the testimony of 49 witnesses and hundreds of pieces of evidence, including one lengthy police interview with the cardiologist.

The seven-man, five-woman panel didn't get to hear Murray announce his decision not to testify, but were instead told by a judge Tuesday after testimony from a pair of medical experts that there would be no more evidence presented to them.

Murray, 58, has pleaded not guilty in connection with Jackson's June 2009 death. He faces up to four years behind bars and the loss of his medical license if convicted.

Prosecutors contend Murray gave Jackson a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol in the bedroom of the singer's Southern California mansion. Defense attorneys claim Jackson gave himself the dose when Murray left the room.

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by narkose November 3, 2011 10:06 AM EDT: Certainly glad I declined to be Murray's expert witness before they sought out Paul White.

Watch youtube.com/user/narkose3535#p/a/f/0/Es5suvGQOj4

With the Jackson $150K/mo., Murray must have thought he was going to be Auric Goldfinger with P**sy Galore.

Walgren did a great job with White but missed the essential point: Jackson could not have died from 25 mg propofol push in the 2 minutes Murray claimed to have been out of the room - just one of the multitude of lies Murray has spun to cover his a**.

Now the defense has suddenly suggested Jackson was already dead when Murray returned to the room. Duh.

Blown pupils are a sign of brain death which follows a minimum of 3-5 minutes without heart pumping activity.

Doesn't really matter if breathing stoppage or abnormal heart rhythm (White's 'suggestion') was the cause of the heart failing to pump oxygen-carrying blood to the brain.

The lethal activity was leaving Jackson alone - reckless negligence, depraved indifference - guilty of involuntary manslaughter unless we've imported the Casey Anthony jury.

Stay tuned...

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by bizzvanwa November 2, 2011 8:58 PM EDT: Good thing Eddie Chernoff cleaned up his shaggy look (on his old website, he wore his hair like an indie rock drummer)....He'd look even worse spewing his BS in his closing talk with the old look. Man, these guys are good! They were shooting a "documentary" the whole time, hedging their bets. I'll bet the lawyers got lots of people from the Lakeside church (a megachurch) to act as cheerleaders for Murray.; Reply to this comment


by MentalCity November 2, 2011 7:57 PM EDT: Four gallons of propofol, that's enough to put the whole courtroom to sleep! This doctor is out of his f*****g mind or what? Notice how he remains eerily stoic and expressionless; he knows he screwed up. This doctor has betrayed the Hippocratic Oath; he is guilty as sin. However, Michael also had a huge responsibility in his own demise. Say no to drugs. The pharmaceutical and medicine industry are the biggest fraud.
Nearly 800 thousand people die every year in the USA from iatrogenic diseases (diseases caused by medical treatment - Physician-induced) As the Christ was the most famous victim of crucifixion Michael Jackson is the most famous victim of iatrogenic diseases (I'm not implying any parallelism or likeness between MJ and the Christ other than what is explicitly said in this comment, if you have a problem with that; it's your problem) - Also, say no to the numerous MJ' s exploitation out there. Joe Jackson is still pursuing to launch a line of perfumes with a professional crook. See the sickening photos of Julian Rouas posing with MJ' s kids, Prince and Paris, to promote his stinking Jackson Tribute Perfumes:
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