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Conrad Murray Manslaughter Trial
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WATCH LIVE: http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/07/conrad-murray-verdict/#.TrhDxrLi_cw

The jury just notified the court ... they have reached a verdict in the Dr. Conrad Murray manslaughter trial.

TMZ has learned ... Dr. Murray is currently with his family in Santa Monica. He should be arriving to the courthouse shortly.

Guilty, not guilty -- the verdict will be announced at 1:00 PM. Stay tuned. We're streaming LIVE inside AND outside the courthouse while we wait.

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TMZ will walk you through the verdict and the reactions. Charles and Harvey will do a special TMZ Live, beginning at 12:45 PM PT. We'll have the verdict, of course, and also reactions from the prosecution, defense, Michael Jackson's family and the courthouse peanut gallery.

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Michael Jackson's Doctor Conrad Murray Convicted


Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the June 25, 2009, death of Michael Jackson.

Murray showed no emotion as the clerk read the verdict.

Throughout the six-week trial, prosecutors portrayed Murray, 58, as a reckless doctor who for $150,000 a month sold out the Hippocratic oath, and to treat Jackson's insomnia, gave the King of Pop a nightly drip of propofol, an unpredictable and potentially fatal anesthetic.

"It's bizarre behavior from anyone, let alone a doctor, this extreme criminal negligence," Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney David Walgren told jurors in his closing argument Nov. 3.

During the case, prosecutors attempted to show that Murray set the stage for tragedy by also failing to use proper monitoring equipment and devices to help Jackson breathe under heavy anesthesia. The doctor, they said, also repeatedly left Jackson's bedside to check e-mails and make phone calls, which Walgren characterized as "abandonment."

Defense attorneys showed that, before Jackson hired Murray as his personal doctor for his "This Is It" tour, he'd concluded that propofol was the only treatment for his insomnia. The attorneys and their medical expert, Dr. Paul White, suggested that Jackson injected extra propofol, and swallowed several tablets of the sedative lorazepam, during moments that morning when Murray's back was turned – causing Jackson to die so suddenly that Murray could not have saved him.

They also suggested that Murray was in the difficult position of safeguarding the health of a past-his-prime pop star who got routine demerol injections from his dermatologist and who was under extreme pressure to perform 50 sold-out concerts in London. When Jackson paid the ultimate price for his peculiar pharmaceutical predilections, Murray became the fall guy, they said.

"He was just a little fish in a big, dirty pond," defense attorney Ed Chernoff told the jury.

Conceding that Murray didn't do everything by the book in his treatment of Jackson, Chernoff said Murray nonetheless should be acquitted because the prosecution failed to prove that these shortcomings caused Jackson's death.

Walgren said that even if the jury believed that Jackson took the extra drugs behind Murray's back, Murray still was responsible for Jackson's death by leaving fatal drugs within reach of someone he believed had a drug addiction or obsession.

Article from: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20542776,00.html
 
guilty... :eekdancesmiley: sentencing at the end of November.. no bail / taken out in cuffs
 
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Kathy Hilton is the one that screamed when it was announced.
Katherine Jackson said in the microphone later while leaving "Justice has been served"
 
You think he was actually shocked, or maybe just resided himself that this was going to be the verdict?

Of course, he'll probably appeal.
 
I only saw some opening statement stuff from the trial, so I really don't know the case went. He had a similar face/expression while that was going on as well.
 
Lawyers for the doctor convicted in Michael Jackson’s death asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the most lenient sentence possible: probation.


In court papers filed in advance of Dr. Conrad Murray’s sentencing Tuesday, his attorneys described the pop star’s death as “an atypical and isolated aberration to an otherwise exceptional medical career.”

The physician’s lawyers argued that Murray had already been punished severely by the loss of his medical license and livelihood and with public contempt, including death threats.
 
Michael Jackson’s Doctor Conrad Murray Sentenced to Four Years in Jail

Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, was sentenced to four years imprisonment, the maximum punishment the judge could deliver.

In addition to the sentence, Murray was also ordered to pay Jackson's children a restitution estimated to be in the amount of $100 million, a sum that combines the cost of Michael's funeral arrangements, plus the lost wages and earnings the singer didn't collect because he died before his This Is It concerts began. The exact restitution, however, will be decided on a later court date.
 
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