The tragic death of Whitney Houston has once again shined the spotlight on the abuse of prescription drugs and the doctors who prescribe them. Legislators, experts and pundits are blaming physicians for liberally prescribing narcotics, but an honest debate must also examine how government policy has helped foster this crisis. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson has been sentenced to the maximum term of four years behind bars. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six weeks before Michael Jackson died, his doctor recorded the semi-comatose superstar mumbling what might have been his farewell address to the world. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter case against Michael Jackson’s personal physician were presented with two portraits of the pop superstar during the first day of testimony – one of an entertainer motivated to succeed at his first concerts in nearly a dozen years and the other of a man too damaged at times to perform. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In an 11th hour appeal, lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor sought to overturn a judge’s refusal to sequester jurors, arguing they would be “poisoned” by publicity unless they were kept in isolation during the involuntary manslaughter trial. (more)
For what promises to be one of the most bizarre and riveting legal proceedings in years, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Monday that a television camera will be allowed in the courtroom when Michael Jackson’s doctor goes on trial for involuntary manslaughter. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor are due in court to discuss pretrial matters, but Dr. Conrad Murray has waived his right to be present. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered the personal physician of Michael Jackson to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop superstar. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are show business royalty, heirs of the King of Pop. Someday, they will be very rich. But a year after their father Michael Jackson’s death, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson are normal kids full of fun and pranks, devoted to each other and to their grandmother who is their guardian, according to a lawyer who sees them frequently. (more)
One minor point may have been omitted from Dr. Conrad Murray’s initial statements about treating Michael Jackson: That he administered Propofol to the singer. (more)
While Dr. Conrad Murray’s arrest for the death of Michael Jackson is certain to pose another emotional time for the pop superstar’s surviving family members, his three children – Prince Michael I, 12; Paris, 11; and Prince Michael II (“Blanket”), 7 – have been dealing with their grief with the help of a close-knit family and something new to them: a sense of normalcy. (more)
Criminal charges relating to Michael Jackson’s death last summer will be filed Monday, Los Angeles prosecutors said. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that prosecutors will seek an involuntary manslaughter indictment against Michael Jackson’s doctor for the pop star’s death. (more)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The physician being investigated in pop superstar Michael Jackson’s death has appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom to make a payment in a separate child support case. (more)
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