07 11 / 2011
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Michael Jackson, among the most famous and beloved performers in pop music history, spent his final days in a sleep-deprived haze of medication and misery until finally succumbing to a fatal dose of potent drugs given to him by the private physician he had hired to act as his personal pharmaceutical dispensary, a jury decided on Monday.
The verdict, nearly two and a half years after the star’s shocking death at age 50, came after nearly 50 witnesses, 22 days of testimony and less than two days of deliberation by a jury of seven men and five women. The trial had focused primarily on whether the physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was guilty of abdicating his duty or of acting with reckless criminal negligence, directly causing his patient’s death.
Dr. Murray now faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.
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The New York Times, “Doctor Found Guilty in Michael Jackson’s Death.”
It’s unbelievable how many people around me are surprised by this verdict, seemingly forgetting that Conrad Murray was — and hopefully no longer can be — a medical doctor.
Do no harm, asshole.
(via inothernews)
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