Jackson's Role May Determine Doctor's Charges
There are two components here. The first is whether the doctors violated their oaths and medial ethics rules that would put them in the doghouse with a licensing board. The other is whether their conduct constitutes a crime. And there IS some legal room between the two standards.
One key question no matter where the investigation goes from here is what role Jackson himself played in his own death or the steps leading up to it. If we DO see a criminal case here, one defense will be that Jackson knew the risks of taking all those meds and choose to continue to do so.
The doctor or doctors are going to be in trouble no matter what. The question is whether a provable crime was committed. So you can bet that prosecutors are going to be checking with independent, neutral medical experts to determine whether and to what extent Jackson's doctors crossed any ethical or legal lines-- remember the patient here apparently was a willing recipient of the medication.
