republican challengers including mitt romney by six points and herman cain by 15. be sure to stay with msnbc all day long for our special super tuesday coverage of election day 2011 right here on msnbc, the place for politics. elsewhere after six weeks of testimony in the involuntary manslaughter case against michael jackson s personal physician, it didn t take long for the jury to deliver a verdict. nbc s stephanie stanton has more. we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, conrad robert murray, guilty of the crime of involuntary man slaulter. reporter: dr. conrad murray showed no emotion as the verdict was read. fans and members of the jackson family got the verdict they had been hoping for the jury of seven men and five women spent some eight hours deliberating, contemplating testimony from 49
interesting that the highlighters were requested but no questions. i thought that perhaps it came from the fact that in california and in this case the jurors were allowed to take notes. so, rather than come back into the courtroom and ask for read-back of testimony, which was sort of the practice when i was practicing law in washington, d.c., as a prosecutor, perhaps they needed the highlighters to remind themselves of the most powerful evidence that came in front of them or perhaps to go through those jury instructions. remember, there s only one count here, involuntary manslaughter, but the jury instructions were actually quite kmrefl. that is because this case is much more of a medical malpractice type case rather than sort of the typical hom stied that we all see on csi and that sort of thing, homicide by gun, by knife. so perhaps they needed it to weed through the elements that were outlined in the jury instructions, which again were pretty complicated. reporter: le
in today s tech watch, a new search for a leonardo da vinci painting. many think it s on a wall hidden behind paint. they will beam new trons through the wall and hopefully will make it temporarily radioactive. a new twist in the involuntary manslaughter case against conrad murray. a paramedic said that dr. murray never mentioned the powerful propofol. another medic described murray s reaction when they entered the
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