pop star died. we re going to get more now from cnn s casey wian in los angeles. reporter: one of the paramedics who responded to michael jackson s home the day the superstar died in 2009 took the stand as the first witness in the jackson family s wrongful death lawsuit against entertainment giant aeg. he said he first thought jackson looked like a hospice patient, like someone at the end of a long disease process. he described seeing the 50-year-old singer, who suffered an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, in this bedroom, pale, not breathing, and apparently dead. at the heart of the case, did aeg live employ and supervise dr. conrad murray? the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal dose of propofol. the jackson family contends e-mails show the concert promoter pressured murray to push jackson to perform at all costs. the gist of the plaintiff s
claim against aeg is that you ve controlled dr. murray, and you used your control over dr. murray to pressure him in to taking unnecessary and excessive risk with his patient, michael jackson, leading to michael jackson s death. aeg says it never paid murray, nor was there a contract, and that he worked only for michael jackson. aeg does not control what happened with michael s doctor. reporter: an lapd detective testified he suspected jackson s death could be related to financial troubles, that the dr. would do whatever he had to to make sure he got paid. before testimony began, aeg attorney marvin putnam asked the judge to bar jackson s siblings from the tiny courtroom because they may be called as witnesses in the case. jackson family attorney argued 82-year-old matriarch katherine jackson, who is the plaintiff in the case, needed one of her children by her side. the judge allowed that, but only one jackson sibling at a time. what do you think about the
apparently dead. at the heart of this case, did aeg live employ and supervise dr. conrad murray, a physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter, for administering the fatal dose of propofol. the jackson family contends e-mails show the concert promoter pressured murray to push jackson to perform at all costs. the gist of the plaintiff s claim against aeg is that you control dr. murray and you used your control over dr. murray to pressure him into taking unnecessary and excessive risks with michael jackson, leading to michael jackson s death. reporter: aeg says they never paid murray nor was there a contractor, and he worked only for michael jackson. aeg cannot control what happened with jackson s doctor. reporter: and the testimony was that michael jackson s death was related to murray s financial troubles, that he