The Killer Of The Great Michael Jackson Found Guilty

[Abdul Karim Bangura]

Dr. Conrad Murray found guilty

On November 7, Michael Jackson's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death.

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[Lavonda Staples]

This is one of those issues which really arouse my ire.  The mother of Michael Jackson hired this man to manage her child's drug addiction.  No.  Dr. Murray should have declined.  He should not have participated in this madness.  However, Michael's family saw the way that he was living.  Like a denizen of the worst crack house in LA.  Filthy rooms.  Containers of urine all around him.  He was shopping for drugs and even owed a single pharmacy 100,000 US dollars.  This was AWAY from the drugs he was getting from Murray.  

I would have liked to see more honesty regarding Michael's addiction.  All they're saying is that if you're rich and famous enough you can be a junkie and have the public ignore your entire persona.  This is very, very sad that this family will not state that they knew their brother was horribly ill but instead they are blaming a man, a single man.  The problem with Michael is so much more complex.  Many people were culpable.  Down to the man who was giving Michael that 20 percent solution of bleaching cream.  All of them didn't kill Michael.  But they all DEFINITELY helped Michael kill himself.

La Vonda

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[Damola Ifaturoti]

Thank you, Prof. Lavonda. MJ began to commit suicide slowly decades ago with his skin bleaching and then his continuous abuse of high risk prescription drugs. Dr. Conrad Murray is nothing more than a mere pawn that has been sacrificed on an ungodly altar to appease MJ’s deluded fans, so-called friends and a nonchalant family who watched him self-destructing gradually over the years without doing much, if anything at all to save him from himself. A good part of the blame for MJ’s untimely demise should be spread around all these individuals and groups but ultimately the final responsibility was Michael’s. Amazing how a man with such great talent who was able to rise to the pinnacle of celebrity status globally would still suffer such demeaning inferiority complex that ultimately led him down the road of self-immolation!

 

However pls cross check the records again. I heard on CNN that it was the organizers of the now ill-fated “This is it” MJ concert that hired Murray, not Michael’s mother. Whoever did has ended up crucifying Murray for the crimes of many others. But weep not for Murray either. If he had been guided by his Hippocratic oath rather than sheer monetary concerns he wouldn’t be in the predicament he now finds himself.  

 

Damola

[Jaye Gaskia]

So 'the Great Michael Jackson' whose killer was found guilty, is presumably one of our Great Pan Afrikan heroes and leaders? And he joins the pantheon including the recently 'murdered' Gaddaffi, the embattle Assad, the paramount ruler of Yemen......this is getting more and more interesting by the day!

[Abdul Karim Bangura]

Mwalimu Jaye Gaskia, after viewing and listening to Dr. Conrad Murray's interviews on NBC, I am having the proverbial second thoughts about him. I must confess that my love for Michael Jackson and many of his family members might have clouded my initial judgment. I am now convinced that his lawyers did him a great disservice by advising him to be mums throughout the entire ordeal. They must have forgotten the old adage that the court of public opinion does have an effect on the court of law.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57322100-504083/conrad-murray-to-nbc-propofol-is-not-recommended-to-be-given-in-the-home.../

November 10, 2011 9:58 AM

Conrad Murray to NBC: "Propofol is not recommended to be given in the home, but..."

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Dr. Conrad Murray

(Credit: CBS/AP)

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson, defended himself and his use of the surgical anesthetic propofol in interviews taped by NBC News just days before a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

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The doctor defended his use of propofol to put Jackson to sleep in interviews set to air Thursday and Friday on NBC's "Today" show. NBC released excerpts of the interview Wednesday.

"I think propofol is not recommended to be given in the home setting," Murray said, "but it is not contraindicated."

Murray also said Jackson had been using the substance long before the pop star met Murray.

Under questioning by the "Today" show's Savannah Guthrie, Murray said it was not necessary for him to monitor Jackson because he had given him only a small dose of propofol. He also said that was the reason he didn't mention it to paramedics when they arrived at Jackson's mansion.

"That's a very sad reason," he said, "because it was inconsequential -- 25 milligrams and the effect's gone. Means nothing."

Guthrie asked, "Well, you told them about the other drugs, but you didn't tell them about propofol?"

"Because it had no effect," Murray said. "It was not an issue."

The coroner would subsequently find that Jackson, 50, died of "acute propofol intoxication" after a huge dose of the drug was complicated by other sedatives.

Murray's defense tried to show that Jackson gave himself an extra dose of propofol while Murray was out of the room, but prosecution experts said there was no evidence of that and it was a crazy theory.

Complete coverage of the Conrad Murray - Michael Jackson case on CBS News

[Ayo Obe]

The trial judge went out of his way to tell Dr Conrad Murray that the decision to testify or not must he his, and not that of his lawyers.  Murray knew that one of the prosecution witnesses had volunteered his services free of charge because he was so concerned at the negative impact the news that propofol had killed Michael Jackson was having on other patients facing operations under anaesthesia.  Given the huge quantities of the drug found in MJ's home, if he should now claim that what he gave MJ that night was negligible, definitely Murray would face cross-examination on that.  Murray may now have his explanation for a cosy television interview, but he was sitting in court and he knew all the issues raised by the prosecution that he would have to answer on cross.  I therefore think that it cannot now lie in his mouth to claim that it was his lawyers who prevented him from testifying.

Ayo

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[Ifedioramma E. Nwana]

This whole thing is sickening, and to think that people I had great respect for their thinking are taking all sorts of side.  Michael Jackson was indeed a great artiste but I fail to see anything that qualifies him as an Africanist and that is even besides the point.  'Talk no ill of the dead' but that Michael Jackson's death should cause another, a living soul, great hardships is indeed very sad.  This is a guy who had subjected himself to be skinned alive and have all sorts of surgeries just to change the colour of his skin and his looks!  He was long dead before meeting Dr. Conrad Murray!  I wish my sympathies for the poor guy, Dr. Conrad Murray, could restore his freedom to movement and practice. 

 

Ifedioramma Eugene Nwana.