Michael Jackson Trial

LOS ANGELES  — A UCLA sleep expert described Dr. Conrad Murray’s use of a cocktail of drugs on Michael Jackson as “unethical, disturbing and beyond comprehension.” The combination of drugs used as Jackson struggled to fall asleep on the day he died was a “recipe for disaster” and ultimately caused his death, Dr. Nader Kamangar […]

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors are winding down their case against the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death by calling three experts intended to help jurors make sense of the complex medical evidence they have been presented. A court transcript released late Tuesday shows prosecutors told a judge overseeing the case against Dr. Conrad Murray that […]

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson was physically exhausted from a day of grueling rehearsals for his marathon 50-night comeback tour. But his nightly battle with insomnia had just begun. After showering and getting into bed, he called for his “milk,” a powerful drug he had been using to escape into unconsciousness. Jackson saw the anesthetic […]

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson was physically exhausted from a day of grueling rehearsals for his marathon 50-night comeback tour. But his nightly battle with insomnia had just begun. After showering and getting into bed, he called for his “milk,” a powerful drug he had been using to escape into unconsciousness. Jackson saw the anesthetic […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than two years after the death of Michael Jackson, a judge swore in jurors Friday to hear the case against the doctor accused of killing the superstar with an overdose of a powerful anesthetic in a rented Los Angeles mansion. The jury of seven men and five women chosen for […]

LONDON (AP) — Jermaine Jackson says his family had secretly arranged to fly Michael to Bahrain if the pop icon was found guilty of child molestation. Jermaine was quoted as saying that a private jet financed by a friend was on standby to whisk his late brother to the Gulf emirate if the 2005 court case […]

LOS ANGELES – The doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death is returning to court to meet the first batch of potential jurors who may eventually decide whether to convict him of involuntary manslaughter. It will be the second time this year that a judge, prosecutors and attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray try to pick a […]

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors want to delay disclosure of coroner and fire department records on Michael Jackson’s death to parties in a civil suit to prevent information leaks to the media before the trial of his doctor. In documents filed Wednesday, Deputy District Attorneys David Walgren and Deborah Brazil said media leaks would be inevitable […]

LOS ANGELES — The judge in the upcoming trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor has ruled that witnesses will not be allowed to testify about the pop star’s child molestation trial. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said Monday such testimony would be distracting and misleading for the jury in Dr. Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter […]

LOS ANGELES — In a sign of legal fallout from the Casey Anthony murder trial, a lawyer for Michael Jackson’s doctor said Wednesday his jury should be sequestered to avoid contamination by TV pundits – specifically Nancy Grace. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan said the televised, involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray could be prejudiced […]

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors of Dr. Conrad Murray want jurors in his involuntary manslaughter trial to see images of his superstar patient, Michael Jackson, dead and alive.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s doctor was so distracted by his own complicated love live that he failed to pay proper attention to Jackson’s treatment in the hours before the pop star died, according to court documents filed Thursday.