The coroner's report is released...
09:18, Tuesday, 25 August 2009



Michael Jackson’s death is being treated as a homicide by the LA coroners’ office- according to reports.

After months of speculation the news was revealed yesterday by the Associated Press agency and various newspapers. The singer’s personal doctor Conrad Murray is likely to be the main suspect.

Murray has admitted giving MJ more than four types of painkillers- including valium and propofol on the day he died.

Court documents say he had ‘lethal’ levels of anaesthetic in his body. A coroners’ report said:

“The preliminary toxicology results and his preliminary assessment of Jackson's cause of death was due to lethal levels of propofol.”

Dr Conrad Murray’s offices have already been raided by police investigating Michael Jackson’s death.


http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/michael-jackson/news/148651-michael-jackson-death-was-homicide

Another M.J. saga will follow soon .
In life and in death....court, lawyers and the media.....enjoy folks.
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Michael Jackson's Death Ruled 'Homicide'
8:18am UK, Tuesday August 25, 2009

Michael Jackson's death has reportedly been ruled a homicide as details emerge of the lethal drugs cocktail including profanol given to the singer to cure his insomnia.

Michael Jackson died at his home in LA on June 25



The homicide ruling by the LA County Coroner does not necessarily mean a crime was committed.

But it does make it more likely criminal charges will be filed against Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray.

The post mortem details emerged after the contents of a 32-page search warrant affidavit, filed in Texas before authorities searched Murray's Houston clinic last month, were made public.

"At the time of his death, toxicology analysis showed Michael Jackson had lethal levels of propofol in his blood,” the Houston Chronicle quotes LA County Chief Coroner Dr Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran as saying.

The coroner's office in Los Angeles has refused to confirm or deny any details of Jackson's post mortem results at the request of police investigating his death on June 25.



Murray has previously denied any wrongdoing and posted a one-minute video on YouTube thanking his supporters and insisting that he has been truthful with detectives.

"I have done all I could do - I told the truth and I have faith the truth will prevail,'' Murray said in the video.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Murray told police he was not the first doctor to administer the powerful propofol and at least two others gave Jackson the drug in Germany.

Investigators found propofol in Murray's medical bag. Officers also confiscated valium, tamsulosin, lorazepam, temazepam, clonazepam, trazodone and tizanidine.


Murray had been treating Jackson for about six weeks and allegedly told police he had been giving him 50 milligrams of propofol every night at his rented Los Angeles mansion.

He apparently feared the pop star was forming an addiction and began trying to wean him off the drugs by lowering the dosage and mixing it with two other sedatives.

On the morning Jackson died, Murray told detectives he tried to help him get to sleep without using propofol.



According to the affidavit, Murray said he gave the singer various drugs over a period of nearly 12 hours, starting with valium.

When this did not work he injected him with lorazepam. He then gave him midazolam and finally 25 milligrams of propofol after Jackson repeatedly demanded the drug to help him sleep.

A lawyer for Murray denied the doctor left Jackson's bedside for any length of time once he was in a drug-induced sleep.

"Much of what's in the search warrant affidavit is factual,” Ed Chernoff said. "However, unfortunately, much is police theory."

Chernoff said Murray never told investigators he found Jackson not breathing at 11am.


Meanwhile, the Jackson family has released a statement saying it has "full confidence in the legal process".

"The family looks forward to the day that justice can be served," the statement said.

It has been claimed a harrowing incident that happened while Jackson was filming a TV ad for Pepsi in the 1980s may have fuelled his addiction to painkillers.


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