enthusiasm and it was a different michael. we had two very successful days at rehearsal, and michael was feeling great and he looked at me and asked me if i was happy and i said i was happy. i asked him if he was happy, and he said he was very happy. as you know now, he never returned to staples center. following that rehearsal, michael was taken home and arrived home at 1:00 in the morning and the question is what transpired then from 1:00 in the morning to michael s death. his last rehearsal was one that all agreed was wonderful and murray says that when michael jackson arrived home, he was excited, but anxious to get his sleep for the next day s rehearsal. according to murray s police statement, at approximately 2:00 a.m. he gave michael valium and lorazepam, heavy sedatives, but no propofol. at 3:00 a.m., the doctor gave
conrad murray as the doctor on scene had a legal duty of care to use his best medical judgment to do no harm to michael jackson. he left this vulnerable man filled with valium and midazolam and propofol with no medical monitoring equipment, no necessary resuscitative equipment. dr. conrad murray s actions directly caused the death of michael jackson. we believe that the evidence will tell you this that michael jackson wanted to sleep for ten hours. was frustrated and unable to sleep, and his doctor would not give him propofol, the drug he wanted. michael jackson swallowed up to eight lorazepam without permission of his doctors, and
dr. shafer. one of the things that you were asked your opinion about that you testified about yesterday was the actual i.v. infusion, how michael jackson receives the propofol in his body. you do understand the difference between opinion and fact, don t you? objection. you understand that everything you said in the last two days is your opinion. you understand that, right? do you understand that? it might be the opinion that i have as a physician but i believe it s an the interesting question chernoff s cross of dr. shafer resulted in a falling out with flanagan, causing chernoff to move out of flanagan s house. my theory with experts is that you don t cross experts in their area of expertise.
new government assuring they can heal their financial situation. he replaces berscoloni who resigned yesterday. now back to michael jackson and the doctor. michael jackson s performances in the rehearsals at staples center had not been going well. after the crisis meeting at michael s house between michael, murray, and the producers, the doctor decided to try to wean him off of propofol. murray says that two days before jackson s death, he managed to get jackson to sleep without propofol. the impact on jackson s performance at rehearsals was immediate and could readily be seen in the footage played at trial in kenny ortega s testimony. he entered full of energy, and desire to work and full of
according to dr. murray and others who testified at the trial, jackson treated the problem by having doctors give him propofol. murray, himself, and mitts to give admits to giving michael propofol shortly after becoming his physician. because of the concept that he needed sleep to be ready for the performances and this is only because of the sleep. and the pressure was stepped up on murray to help him get the sleep he needed to perform. he said, i want 15 to 18 hours of sleep. that is what most doctors give me. give me ten minutes. give me 20 minutes. i said to him, why would ten minutes help you? how would 20 minutes make a difference? it will. it will.