Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Dr. Conrad Murray (a heart doctor turned bedside sleepy-time fairy dust distributor) has been found guilty of the “involuntary manslaughter” of the King of Pop in June, 2009. According to USA Today, one of the gazillions of news outlets who covered this two month trial:
‘[Prosecutor David Walgren] said Murray caused Jackson’s death through acts of “criminal negligence”.....According to reports, Murray will serve time in a county jail, but it will be around half of his actual sentence. He faces up to 4 years, but Harvey Levin of TMZ speculates that at the end of the day, Murray will end up on house arrest. (Not surprising since Lindsay Lohan just served 4.5 hours of her 30 day sentence last night. ) The judge specified that none of the jurors are allowed to get paid or “benefit” from speaking about the trial for 90 days.
in using a hospital-grade drug for insomnia in Jackson’s home without proper monitoring and resuscitation equipment. Murray also acted negligently in delaying 20 minutes before calling 911, attempting CPR incompetently and failing to tell rescue personnel he had used propofol, Walgren said.
A negligent failure to act can be involuntary manslaughter under California law. Walgren adopted this theory, too, saying Murray had failed to fulfill a doctor’s legal duty to care for a patient.
Clearly this doctor’s ineptitude and um….elastic code of conduct, contributed to the death of Michael Jackson. But it also seems to me that all the people around MJ, and MJ’s own decisions played an important part in enabling Jackson’s ridiculous lifestyle, and in giving Murray so much his world.
via: missinfo.tv
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