when dr. murray left the room, michael jackson self-administered a dose of propofol that with the lorazepam created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly. now chernoff turned to his own experts. dr. robert waldman reviewed evidence from his journals. jackson got frequent painkillers. for the jackson family, they were hard words to hear. and they sat in that courtroom and listened to testimony that their son and brother was a drug addict. and often they had to leave. but they were always there the next day. the addiction, the insomnia, the desperation were so great,
finally, after 16 days and 33 witness the people are prepared and would ask to rest at this time. thank you. it was conrad murray s turn to convince a jury. all the defense has to do is show reasonable doubt, so if they show you one alternative that s plausible to you, then essentially dr. murray could be acquitted. lead defense attorney ed chernoff had laid out that alternative days before in his opening statement. when dr. murray left the room, michael jackson self-administered a dose of propofol that with the lorazepam created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly. now chernoff turned to his own experts. dr. robert waldman reviewed evidence from his journals. jackson got frequent painkillers.
they show you one alternative that s plausible to you, then essentially dr. murray could be acquitted. lead defense attorney ed chernoff had laid out that alternative days before in his opening statement. when dr. murray left the room, michael jackson self-administered a dose of propofol that with the lorazepam created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly. now chernoff turned to his own experts. dr. robert waldman reviewed evidence from his journals. jackson got frequent painkillers. for the jackson family, they were hard words to hear. and they sat in that courtroom and listened to testimony that their son and brother was a drug addict.
him propofol, a drug she d never heard of. he said, doctors have told me it is safe. i just need to be monitored. i told him, well, let s just try nutritional i.v. one more you know, try it again. but lee s remedy didn t work for jackson. well, he wasn t very happy that he didn t sleep longer. was he upset with you? he was a tad bit upset. he wanted to sleep longer and he said the nutritional components were not working. he was complaining when he got up, is that right? he said, this is going to mess up my performance for the day. the only thing that s going to help me is depravan. finally chernoff turned it his own experts. i specialize in addiction medicine. dr. robert waldman reviewed records from his dermatologist. in the months before his death jackson got frequent treatments and lots of painkillers. i believe there was evidence that he was probably addicted to open opioids. for the jackson family they
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