LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor says lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor will claim at his involuntary-manslaughter trial that the pop star was responsible for his own death in June 2009.
The statement by Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney David Walgren came Wednesday after a lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray clashed with the prosecutor over who should test residue from two syringes found in Jackson’s bedroom. Defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan said a huge amount of the anesthetic Propofol was found in Jackson’s body but that his client has said he gave him only 25 milligrams of the drug. Walgren suggested the defense will claim Jackson killed himself by injecting more of the drug into himself.
Meanwhile, executors of Jackson’s estate are demanding that the Discovery Channel cancel plans for a show purporting to re-enact Jackson’s autopsy. John Branca and John McClain called Discovery Communications’ planned show in shockingly bad taste and insensitive to the feelings of Jackson’s family.
A call to Discovery after hours Wednesday was not immediately returned.
The Associated Press
