the anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed chernoff is murray s attorney. he doesn t have any specialized training in addiction recovery, that s true. who else is addicted to a drug like propofol? there s no protocol for how to wean someone off a drug like that. the theory that conrad murray was trying to break jackson of a propofol addiction in the last hours of his life is kind of an interesting theory. there doesn t seem to be any doubt that michael jackson knew what drugs he wanted and when he wanted them. and michael jackson appeared to be able to get whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. according to the affidavit,
a truck rear-ended the car, knocking it into a gas pump. the driver jumped from the car as the flames spread. no one was seriously hurt in that accident. this time last year, the nation was in shock over the sudden death of michael jackson. on the anniversary of it his father filed a wrongful death lawsuit against jackson s personal doctor, conrad murray. but murray s lawyer tells our ted rowlands he doesn t deserve the blame. reporter: drew, in an exclusive interview ed chernoff, the lead attorney for dr. conrad murray, told us that his client was not the person that gave michael jackson a fatal overdose. dr. murray did not cause the death of michael jackson. reporter: ed chernoff says when dr. conrad murray went to work as michael jackson s personal doctor, he had no idea that jackson was, in chernoff s words, addicted to propofol, a drug normally used to put surgical patients to sleep. murray started giving jackson the powerful drug in jackson s home. doctor after doctor get
enormity of the disaster and they re all feeling the stress. this has been a long-term situation. this started in 2004 with a direct hit from hurricane ivan. then the next year was katrina. then skyrocketing fuel prices. fishing regulations. and then an oil spill. this has been sick years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. reporter: stress that his friends believe finally became too much for cruz. and now they re worried about others. are you afraid that maybe one of your other friends out there might be thinking about something extreme? sure. we worry about that. every day. what are you going to do about it? that s why we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community that s now grieving for him, cruz s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back to home port in orange beach. here it is now, the rookie. his friends say there is no better way they could think of to pay tribute to a machine who loved what did
long-term environmental and economic impact. environmental groups would wr not happy at all with this judge s decision to lift this moratorium again. we re disappointed with the decision. clearly, deepwater drilling has been shown to be a high-wire act without a net. it seems to me as this forest fire is raging out there, that we want to at least take away the matches from the kids who started the fire. reporter: ironically, the state of louisiana agrees with the federal government in that deepwater drilling could be a threat to public safety. they just disagree on the length of this moratorium. governor bobby jindal offering some sort of compromise with the government. for example, why not put a federal inspector on every rig that can shut down production. or for example, why not allow the 33 rigs affected by the moratorium to drill but not up to the reservoir? that s where the greatest dangers are.
jackson s home. doctor after doctor gets up and says this should never be used outside of a clinical setting, a hospital or clinic. the fact that the circumstances may be unusual, may be demonstrated to be unusual, does not make it egregious. that alone does not make it egregious. reporter: according to the coroner s report, jackson had the same amount of propofol in his body when he died as is used for major surgery. but murray says he didn t give jackson that much propofol. there s no way that dr. murray would pump michael jackson full of propofol sufficient for major surgery and walk out that room. it s not going to happen. that s not the doctor dr. murray is. reporter: how did it get in him? well that s a good question, ted. do you have any idea how it got in him? reporter: the only other scenarios, someone else gave jackson the fatal dose or jackson woke up and injected himself, which the coroner addressed but concluded would be a long shot.