LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s personal doctor was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s death following a six-week trial that captivated Jackson fans around the world.

Dr. Conrad Murray had pleaded not guilty to giving the “Thriller” singer a fatal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol, which was ruled as the main cause of the pop star’s June 25, 2009 death.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 4 (Reuters) – A manslaughter conviction
against Michael Jackson’s doctor would boost the late pop
star’s image and open opportunities for his estate in many
markets, including family-oriented products, industry experts
said.

A Los Angeles jury begins deliberations on Friday in the
six-week trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with
involuntary manslaughter over the singer’s 2009 death from the
anesthetic propofol and sedatives.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles jury will start deliberating the fate of Michael Jackson’s doctor on Friday after a six-week manslaughter trial stemming from the 2009 death of the self-styled king of pop.

In closing arguments prosecutors said Jackson “paid with his life” for the criminal negligence of Dr Conrad Murray. Defense lawyers said Murray was being held responsible for Jackson’s own actions.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A Los Angeles jury will
start deliberating the fate of Michael Jackson’s doctor on
Friday after a six-week manslaughter trial stemming from the
2009 death of the self-styled king of pop.

In closing arguments prosecutors said Jackson “paid with
his life” for the criminal negligence of Dr Conrad Murray.
Defense lawyers said Murray was being held responsible for
Jackson’s own actions.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Michael Jackson “paid with
his life” for the criminal negligence of his personal doctor
that also left the pop singer’s three children without a
father, prosecutors told a Los Angeles jury on Thursday.

In emotional closing arguments after a six-week trial,
prosecutor David Walgren said Dr. Conrad Murray violated the
trust between doctor and patient and that his actions had
caused the death in 2009 of the “Thriller” singer.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s doctor on Tuesday declined to testify as both the prosecution and defense rested their cases in the trial in which he is charged in the 2009 death of the pop star.

Asked by the judge whether he wanted to take the witness stand in his involuntary manslaughter trial, Dr. Conrad Murray replied: “My decision is that I will not testify in this matter, judge.”

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An expert defense witness suggested on Monday that Michael Jackson could have risen from his bed, picked up a syringe left by his doctor and given himself a fatal dose of a powerful anesthetic in 2009.

But the testimony by Dr. Paul White in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray was ridiculed by prosecutors in an aggressive cross-examination of the final witness for the defense.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Prosecutors on Monday forced an expert defense witness to admit that Michael Jackson’s doctor made significant errors when he gave the singer the potent anesthetic propofol for sleep.

Under aggressive cross-examination. Dr. Paul White also acknowledged that he had never heard of propofol being administered in a bedroom — as happened in Jackson’s case.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol after popping an extra eight sedatives without his doctor’s knowledge, a Los Angeles court heard on Friday.

Dr. Paul White, the last defense witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the singer’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, said that self-administration was the most likely scenario to explain levels of propofol and lorazepam found in Jackson’s system after his death on June 25, 2009.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson could have swallowed an additional eight pills of the sedative lorazepam on the morning he died in 2009, an expert defence witness testified on Friday.

Dr. Paul White, expected to be the last defence witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the singer’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, also criticized prosecution theories about what happened in the hours before Jackson was found lifeless in his bed.