Desperately Seeking Justice

THE TRIAL OF CONRAD MURRAY, M.D.

With the release of the autopsy and information coming from investigations of MJ's personal physician, a timeline of events has been compiled and released to CNN by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. The report was compiled to aid individuals in understanding exactly how the world lost the King of Pop. This sequence was outlined in the search warrant affidavit and confirms that Dr. Conrad Murray gave MJ a mixture of various powerful drugs and one drug that is commonly used as an antidote for overdose cases. This was apparently administered in order to revive the popstar. This cocktail of drugs led to his untimely death.


Timeline Of Events

As we understand it, three days before MJ's death, Dr. Murray gave Michael Jackson "25 milligrams of propofol along with the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam". This mixture aided MJ to sleep.

The following day, Murray provided the same drug combo to Michael, but without the propofol, hoping to wean him off it. Again, Michael was able to fall asleep.

June 25th, 2009, the day Michael Jackson died:

June 25: At about 1:30 a.m., Murray again tried to get Jackson to sleep without propofol and gives the singer a 10-milligram tablet of Valium, but Jackson is unable to sleep.

• Around 2 a.m.: Murray injects Jackson with two milligrams of lorazepam, pushed slowly into the singer's IV. But again, Jackson can't sleep.

• Around 3 a.m.: Murray then gives two milligrams of midazolam to Jackson, also pushed slowly into the IV. Jackson remains awake.

• Around 5 a.m.: Murray gives the singer another two milligrams of lorazepam but Jackson still can't sleep.

• Around 7:30 a.m.: Murray administers another two milligrams of midazolam. Murray claims he is continuously at Jackson's bedside, monitoring the singer with a pulse oximeter [connected to Jackson's finger] and measuring his pulse and oxygen statistics. But Jackson remains awake.

• Around 10:40 a.m.: Murray gives Jackson 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine to keep Jackson sedated after repeated demands for the drug by the singer. Jackson finally falls asleep, and Murray continues to monitor him.

• After 10 minutes: Murray states he left Jackson's bedside to use the restroom and is gone for no more than two minutes. Upon his return, Murray finds Jackson not breathing. Murray begins CPR, and gives Jackson 0.2 milligrams of flumazenil, an antidote for certain overdoses. Using his cell phone, Murray calls Jackson's personal assistant, Michael Amir Williams, and asks him to send security upstairs for an emergency.
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However, after checking Dr. Murray’s cell phone records the police find that the doctor waited 82 minutes after he realized the singer had stopped breathing, before he called 911. During those 82 minutes, Dr. Murray spent 47 of them on three separate phone calls, starting at 11:18 a.m. The affidavit suggests Murray was either "not paying full attention to Jackson's monitoring, or was frantically making calls following the discovery that the singer had stopped breathing."

Also, the police report reveals that Dr. Murray did not inform the paramedics or the hospital staff that at around 10:40 a.m., he had given Michael his final and lethal dosage of Propofol, a hospital-strength anesthetic. Dr. Murray only confessed that he'd given MJ the sedative lorazepam and an antidote. Once the investigation was under way, the police searched Michael's home and found "a variety of sedatives and other prescription drugs in multiple vials and bottles – none of which were labeled as prescribed to any patient."
There has also been no record of Dr. Murray purchasing any Propofol under his medical license number.
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Dr. Murray’s version of events contends that after learning Michael had stopped breathing– he leaves Jackson and runs to the hallway and downstairs to the kitchen, where he asks the chef to send up Jackson's 12-year-old son, Prince Michael I.
The boy arrives upstairs and immediately summons security. Murray contends he starts CPR and continues it until paramedics arrive. The doctor then accompanies Michael Jackson to the hospital in the ambulance.
However, the truth is Dr. Murray wasn’t administering CPR when the paramedics arrived nor did he accompany Jackson to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Is Dr. Murray liable for the death of Michael Jackson?

A jury in Southern California will soon make the final decision, which could result in the doctor being found not guilty OR being found guilty of the charge of manslaughter, losing his license to practice medicine and possibly going to prison for up to 4 years.

By now, I'm sure we have all formed our opinions on Dr. Murray's guilt or innocence. The trial begins at the end of the month so stay tuned to CNN or whoever your favorite news provider.