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MJ Death – R.I.P

latimes.com report,

The California medical board has reprimanded Michael Jackson’s personal physician for failing to notify Nevada medical board officials that he had fallen behind in his child support payments, echoing a previous reprimand issued against the doctor by the Nevada board last year.

Dr. Conrad Murray failed to notify the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners that his child support payments were in arrears as required when he renewed his medical license in 2007 and 2009, according to the California board’s public letter of reprimand, filed Friday and made public Monday.

The letter noted that Murray’s actions constituted a violation of California law concerning “unprofessional conduct,” grounds for a reprimand.

A public reprimand is a lesser form of discipline doctors can negotiate for minor violations to avoid formal charges.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with Jackson’s death.

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A judge threatened Monday to hit Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyers with $1,500-a-day fines for failing to share evidence with prosecutors before the physician’s trial next month in the death of Michael Jackson.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor told lawyers for the pop icon’s personal physician that he would impose the fines or other sanctions Wednesday unless they met their legal obligation to turn over witness statements and expert reports to prosecutors.

“I am extremely distressed about the state of this case and whether in fact the defense is ready for trial,” Pastor said.

Murray is set to go on trial March 24, but prosecutors have repeatedly asked the judge to delay the case, saying the defense is not ready for trial because it has not shared materials concerning its witnesses.

Murray has refused to waive his right to a speedy trial, as most defendants do, to preserve his right to practice medicine. Pastor stripped him of his California medical license, but authorities in Texas and Nevada, where he practices, have agreed to await the conclusion of the trial to make their decisions, his lawyers said.

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Phyl thanks for the link. We are trying to make this story sink in!

A lawyer who worked for celebrity attorney Mark Geragos during his representation of Michael Jackson said Tuesday he wants to join the defense team representing Jackson’s doctor on an involuntary manslaughter charge.

The move by attorney Nareg Gourjian raised the possibility of a conflict of interest.

Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said that loyalty to a former client, even one who is dead, is part of the rules that must be obeyed by all attorneys.

Geragos represented Jackson on child molestation allegations from 2003 to 2005 but left the case before the trial in which Jackson was acquitted. Gourjian, who appeared in court with Murray’s lawyers, said he was a new attorney when he was hired by Geragos and did little on the Jackson case. Geragos’ associate, attorney Pat Harris, brought the situation to the judge’s attention. “Our position is there may be a conflict. We feel it is our duty to disclose it,” Harris said. “We have the highest respect for Mr. Gourjian as an attorney.”

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Phyl keeps us up-to-date with what happening over at TMZ. They report…

Michael Jackson wasn’t the first patient to die while in Dr. Murray’s care — in fact, TMZ has learned MJ investigators spoke with the son of a former Murray patient who BLAMES the doc for killing his dad in a botched surgery.

Months after MJ’s death, LAPD detectives spoke with Gerard White — whose father died 6 days after Dr. Murray operated on his heart in Las Vegas back in 2007.

White told investigators Murray not only botched the surgery and ripped a hole in his dad’s heart — but he failed to recognize obvious, tell-tale signs that his patient was fatally wounded.

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The Conrad Murray trial is set to begin on March 28

Lawyers for Michael Jackson’s former live-in physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, will be in court in Los Angeles on Monday to discuss several key pretrial matters, including whether to televise what will no doubt be one of the nation’s most sensational trials ever.
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The reports are in, and a judge will be hearing arguments and ruling whether the Dr. Conrad Murray hearing will be televised. As fans know, it has taken a long time to adjust to the news of Michael Jackson’s passing, and his family and friends are hoping to see justice obtained.
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Loyal Reader Phyl tipped us off to this new witness Sade Anding and her story. So we did a little digging and we found a video post which we put up a few days ago. Anyway, a more detailed report is in The Sun Newspaper. While the story does share more details we just HATE the way they call Michael ‘JACKO’. We moaned about their headlines back in 2009.

Anyway…Now we have that off our chest please click here to read the story

UPDATE from TMZ

Dr. Conrad Murray’s ex-girlfriend claims Murray knew something was wrong with Michael Jackson at the start of a phone call he made to her on the day MJ died — a complete contradiction to Murray’s story. Sade Anding told Good Morning America Conrad had called her “out of the blue” on June 25, 2009 — and from the beginning of the call, he “didn’t sound like himself at all.”

Anding claims she asked Murray what was wrong and he only replied, “Well ….”

That’s when Sade claims Murray stopped talking … and Sade claims she could hear someone “coughing” followed by a “mumbling of voices.”

As TMZ previously reported, Murray told police he was on the phone with someone for a solid 5 minutes before he noticed something was wrong with MJ and got off the phone.

Prosecutors believe Murray may have known there was a problem earlier than he claims … and may have used the time to cover up and make calls to establish his own timeline.

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Conrad Murray’s Preliminary Hearing

January 4, 2011 @ 9am
Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center
210 West Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Keep checking http://www.justice4mj.com/

Also read their other report

DECEMBER 29 – SYRINGE AND EVIDENCE HEARING

Judge Pastor residing
9th floor
Los Angeles Superior Court
Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center

Defense attorney Mr. Flanagan presented his case regarding his request for a court order for testing on three pieces of evidence.
1- broken syringe found on floor with unknown fingerprint
1 – syringe
1 – IV tubing adjacent to bed.

Flanagan is interested in quantitative testing of lidocaine and propofol in syringes and tubing. Coroner only completed a qualitative testing, not quantity.

Presumably the quality of evidence remaining in tube has degraded and become diluted. One syringe is reported as having only salt. The syringe and IV have only small amounts of liquid evidence.

Flanagan insists on receiving all remaining evidence to conduct his tests to receive an accurate reading of quantity. Click here to read more

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People Magazine Reports

Michael Jackson’s three children and mother, Katherine, are suing concert promoter AEG Live for allegedly strong-arming the singer into poor medical care and imposing a grueling rehearsal schedule that led to his death. By Jackson’s final rehearsal in June 2009 for a big comeback concert series, the entertainer was shivering and disoriented in the warm Staples Center, the lawsuit alleges, and would soon be dead from an acute level of the powerful anesthesia Propofol.

AEG had legal duties to Michael Jackson to treat him safely and to not put him in harm’s way,” says the lawsuit. “But AEG, despite its knowledge of Michael Jackson’s physical condition, breached those duties by putting its desire for massive profits from the tour over the health and safety of Michael Jackson.”

The lawsuit adds: “Due AEG’s actions and inactions, three loving children lost their father, a loving mother and father lost their son, the Jackson siblings lost their brother, and the world lost its most celebrated entertainer.”

The Jackson family alleges AEG Live breached their agreement to provide physical care for the King of Pop and that the concert promoters were negligent in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray as Jackson’s physician. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Murray allegedly gave the singer lethal levels of an anesthetic while treating Jackson, whose death was ruled a homicide, for insomnia. He has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Director Kenny Ortega, who produced Jackson’s “This Is It” tour, is also named as a defendant in the suit.

AEG had no comment and said company officials had not yet seen the complaint.

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While watching this video, I thought to myself so many child stars never really get the chance to shine their light brightly as adults. Sadly this happened to Gary Coleman. While we are saddened that Michael Jackson has left us. Let us be happy that he was able to shine his bright light throughout his adult years despite all the controversy that was bestowed upon him time after time. From ABC to This Is It, Michael Jackson was always there… Gary Coleman was a huge child star. Unfortunately the business and people were not so kind to him as he transitioned from child star to adult…

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Michael Jackson’s legacy continues to live on…

On the one-year anniversary of the King of Pop’s death, the Jackson Family Foundation will be presenting “Forever Michael,” a red carpet celebration event featuring performances honoring the late singer.

“The vision is to bring together Michael Jackson family members, celebrities, fans, supporters and the community to celebrate and honor his legacy,” says VoicePlate Productions, the company producing the June 26 event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The party will be open to the public – $500 for VIP tickets and $250 for general admission can be purchased on VoicePlate.com.

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Greetings MJ Fans….

While visiting him a few days ago at Forest Lawn , Riley and I couldn’t help but notice that , while there are a few bouquets , candles and gifts there is a very large empty space around him and in front of him that could use a whole lot more.
While , I am sure that the staff at The Holy Terrace do their very best to place what is sent and what is placed at the door at his tomb , I thought you might like to know that he would want and deserves more than what is there and I had an idea…….
Some may or may not know this but his favorite flower was the Sunflower.
They made him happy because they looked happy to him , Thus, he called them “The Happy Flower”.
When we were married , I would try and fill up rooms with them wherever he was.

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