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jackson that fatal dose of propofol, that despite the fact there was never a fully executed signed agreement between aeg live, murray, and jackson, and also murray never actually received any money from the concert promoter. we know that they were talking about that first question because they asked for individual copies, one for each of the 12 jurors, of that contract agreement, that tentative deal. they also asked for benign things like office supplies and they wanted a dvd player and copy of this is it the posthumous video released over the objections of michael jackson s family, after his death. at stake, potentially more than a billion dollars in damages that the jackson family lawyers say should be paid to his mother and his three surviving children. if in fact the jury finds aeg liable, those damages could be reduced by percentage of amount,
almost in foreclosure. let avery get in here. it was an absolute wreck. the reality is that the plaintiff is asking for $1.5 billion. they had to concede they might be only partially responsible. at the end of the day, the jury is doing the wrong thing. we are not going to see a flash verdict. they have been there for five months, allison, they have to look at all of the evidence. in los angeles, nowhere else in america do you have orchestrated video at the end that brought some of the jurors to tears. at the end of the day, that s the first question. michael jackson was the one who engaged the doctor, insisted on having him there. how in the world would aeg live know what s going on in the bedroom, know about propofol, all of this surfaced at the end of the trial. i think this is a very, very close case. except, allison, they have an e-mail, the ceo of aeg was advised listen, conrad murray is keeping him under medication, not letting him come to rehearsal, he writes and says
a, b, c, blame it on aeg. no, they didn t say that to the jury. they hope they get to the comparative negligence stage here, because question number one is did aeg hire conrad murray. if that answer is no, if 9 out of 12 say no, the case is over and over now. the fact we are going into next weekend and next week would seem to indicate they re going to say yes, they did, or they had something to do with it. that they find michael jackson and aeg hired him, the jury gets to comparative analysis, and because of the devastating information brought out during trial that michael was almost a half billion dollars in debt, we know he was a drug addict for the last 10, 15 years. it is more than that. they say the reason much more than that. the reason aeg should be held is they didn t do a financial investigation of conrad murray. what about of michael jackson? this guy, his mother s house was
his estate, as you know, jim, is in the black now. certainly was not in the black when he was alive. it s in black because he is not here to spend the money. not only that, don, when we covered the molestation trial some years ago, it would not have surprised me if he didn t show up one day actually he was late one day. he came in his pajamas. we remember that. he was so frail at that time that i don t think anyone would have been surprised in his life has come to an end then. to say his life came to an end now isn t surprising. when you look at the show that aeg was putting on and look at the physicality of that show, certainly michael jackson couldn t have continued at that pace for the next ten years. so it would be a different kind of a show. so i think it s a very difficult argument for the family to make. i want to bring in paul. i want to ask you, jim brought up the contract, only dr. conrad murray had signed the contract. michael jackson hadn t signed it. aeg hadn t signe