Personal physician of Michael Jackson under indictment

Is the former personal physician Dr. Murray blame for the death of pop legend Michael Jackson? Many clues could speak for it.

15/01/2011

According to US judges, there is enough evidence to indict the former personal physician of rock legend Michael Jackson before a jury trial. The prosecution raises Conrad Murray, Jackson negligently administered the strong anesthetic propofol. The remedy eventually led to the death of Michael Jackson.

The then home and personal physician Murry accuses the prosecution of having co-sponsored the death of rock star Michael Jackson through the administration of the potent anesthetic Propofol. The drug had led to the death of Michael Jackson a good one and a half years ago. After a hearing in New York that lasted six days in total, presiding judge Michael Pastor decided that there was enough evidence to charge the doctor for negligent homicide. If the cardiologist is convicted, he faces up to four years in prison.

Jackson's former doctor may not treat for the time being
It was a surprise that Judge Pastor prohibited the cardiologist from practicing medicine as a physician until the end of the California trial. The lawyer of the physician Ed Chernoff strongly condemned the withdrawal of the medical approbation. Literally, the lawyer said the ban would be one „nuclear option“, because other US states could follow the example and the physician in Texas and Nevada withdraw the approval. In both states, Murry also has doctors' offices.

At the end of the preliminary hearing, prosecutor David Walgren of the Los Angeles district severely blamed Dr. Murry: "Michael Jackson is no longer with us today because of an incompetent and unscrupulous doctor." After the hearing, it is clear to the prosecutor that the doctor is guilty of death „King of Pop“ has made. Whether the doctor actually guilty, now has to judge a jury. At first, it was first determined whether the evidence available was sufficient to open an indictment. Especially for this purpose many witnesses were heard. Already in the course of the preliminary investigations, however, it became clear that many questions are still not clear to this day.

Expert revokes initial analysis results of gastric fluid
Another surprise was the admission of pain therapist Richard Ruffalo. The expert was invited to confirm that Jackson died of an overdose of propofol. In the sense of the indictment, the expert was quasi a star witness to confirm this important indication. Instead, the pain expert put the clear question of guilt in doubt. "I made a miscalculation," the witness said. Ruffalo thus revokes his initial calculation of the amount of propofol that was in Jackson's stomach fluid. The new calculations may now suggest that Michael Jackson himself has drunk the anesthetic in a larger quantity from a bottle after the personal physician left the room. A suicide from Jackson, as the defense had claimed from the beginning, could become more likely as a result of this admission. Already exalted the lawyer of the defendant that the prosecutor's office is now a „have to come up with a new strategy“, there the situation again „changed decisively“ Has.

Michael Jackson was dependent on medication
Long before the death of the rock star, the doctor had given his patient the hypnotic for insomnia. The remedy is used in medical practice only in operations. But Jackson had been dependent on the drug for some time. It could well be that the duration of the intake was crucial and not an overdose.

However, there are other indications that suggest a negligent homicide and a neglect of medical due diligence. On the death night in question, according to Jackson's bodyguard, the cardiologist had tried to revive Jackson, sweating and upset with only one hand on a soft mattress with a wrongly executed heart-pressure massage. According to testimony, Murray's other hand attempted to quickly collect and dispose of the drugs that were scattered throughout the room. In addition, the doctor had waited more than 20 minutes after suspension for breathing to call an ambulance.

These very facts, regardless of whether the cardiologist actually administered the lethal dose on the night in question, testify to an unfavorable picture of the accused. The hearing had also revealed that Murry met the mentally and nervously severely damaged patients every desire for addiction drugs. An indication of this is, for example, that Dr. Murry ordered a total of 15 liters of anesthetic just three months before the pop star died at a Los Angeles drugstore. This amount is evidence of a very high consumption of the hypnotic.

Doctor fulfilled every desire for medication
The question of whether the doctor had a choice to retaliate the patient Jackson does not exist. Although the doctor had lost his job in a refusal, but at least he would have fulfilled his medical duty of care. On the contrary, Murry had the task to make the star for the upcoming tour mentally and physically supposedly fit. And the doctor got a princely salary of $ 150,000 a month. Now he has to answer as a medical doctor in court and may take years of imprisonment. (Sb)

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