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1 of 8. Dr. Christopher Rogers, deputy medical examiner at the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, is shown an empty prescription bottle of Lorazepam by Deputy District Attorney David Walgren during Dr. Conrad Murray's trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson in Los Angeles October 11, 2011.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dr Conrad Murray's defense in the death of Michael Jackson suffered major blows on Wednesday when his attorneys dropped a claim that the singer swallowed a fatal dose of an anesthetic, and two doctors slammed his treatment standards.
As the prosecution neared the end of its case in the third week of the involuntary manslaughter trial, the two doctors testified that even if Jackson gave himself propofol, Murray would still be responsible for his death.
"It's like leaving a baby that's sleeping on your kitchen countertop," Dr. Alon Steinberg told jurors. "You look at it and it's probably going to be OK and you're just going to go grab some diapers or go to the bathroom but you would never do it."
Murray, who denies involuntary manslaughter, has admitted giving Jackson a relatively small dose of 25 milligrams of propofol -- which is normally used in surgery -- as a sleep aid on June 25, 2009.
But the defense has claimed in previous court hearings that Jackson, 50, somehow caused his own death either by swallowing or self-administering an extra, fatal dose when Murray was out of the room.
With the jury temporarily out of the courtroom on Wednesday, Murray's attorneys and prosecutors described medical studies to the judge that show propofol has no major effects on a person when swallowed.
"We are not going to assert at any point in time in this trial that Michael Jackson orally ingested propofol," Murray's attorney J. Michael Flanagan told the judge.
Murray's lawyers have however pressed their argument that Jackson gave himself the propofol with an injection. They are expected to begin laying out the defense case in full, possibly next week.
Murray faces up to four years in prison if convicted.
JACKSON COULD HAVE LIVED
Steinberg, who reviewed Murray's treatment of Jackson for the California medical board, said Murray made six "extreme deviations" from the generally accepted standard of care.
Those were: Administering propofol for sleep when it is meant for anesthesia; giving it at a home instead of a medical facility; not being prepared for an emergency; not taking the proper measures to revive Jackson; delaying calling for an ambulance; and not keeping proper records.
"If these deviations hadn't happened, Mr. Jackson would have been alive," Steinberg said. "I've never heard of anyone using propofol for sleep except Dr. Murray," he added later under a lengthy cross-examination.
When Steinberg described Murray's bungled attempts to revive Jackson -- including performing chest compressions even though the singer's heart was apparently still beating -- the pop star's brother Randy Jackson held his head in his hands.
Dr. Nader Kamangar, a hospital specialist in pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine, reached a similar conclusion as Steinberg.
He testified that Murray's mistakes included leaving Jackson alone after sedating him with drugs.
"Fundamental basics of the Hippocratic oath, or the ethics and morals that physicians swear by, is to do what's right for your patient, not to abandon your patient," Kamangar said.
Steinberg, like Murray, is a cardiologist. He said he based his withering critique of Murray on the physician's own account to detectives. Steinberg said a transcript of that interview convinced him Murray put Jackson on an intravenous drip of propofol after injecting him with the drug.
Murray's attorney challenged that finding, but Steinberg was unmoved. "Can we agree to disagree?" Steinberg responded.
(Editing by Xavier Briand)
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How long America? How long will you allow yourselves to be led around by the nose by lawyers representing the sharks that either surrounded or came after Jackson, both when he was alive and now that he is dead?
Extorted, successfully, in 1993 by Evan Chandler, a man who would go on to abuse his own son Jordan less than 5 months after Jackson was himself exonerated 14 times in a protracted, heavily scrutinized trial. Even now the impunity against Jackson’s unjustly tarnished name continues.
The infamous case in 2005, a shocking aggregate of deceit, greed and fantasy, given credence by an industry that saw profit in the marketing of Jackson as a harmer of children.
Without attention to fact, a family of grifters were allowed to perjur themselves at the state of Santa Barbara’s expense, because one corrupt law enforcement official, Thomas Sneddon, was allowed to abuse the powers invested in him.
And now, Jackson, a man who championed the rights of vulnerable and deprived children round the world to be given access to health, enjoyment and safety, is being attacked without merit once more because he isn’t here to defend himself.
A defense team hawking an implausible array of theories and overtly banking on the 20 years plus of embedded misinformation that many still believe about a provably, innocent man, is now once again encouraging 12 jurors and public opinion to deny justice to Michael Jackson, a man undeservedly maligned for over two decades.
Want to know how we got here? Look at the media coverage that attended Jackson’s every waking moment while he lived, research the spurious accusations that ate away at Jackson’s self-esteem and sense of self. Yet he was still fighting, still about to go on stage, fighting the horrendous insomnia that undermined the very energy he needed to accomplish that.
Is Murray the primary cause of Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009? Seems likely. But lets not forget what came before and the large sections of egregious media people by ordinary men and women that also share responsibility for that.
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