Jackson 'took own life'
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October 30, 2011, Sunday
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ATTORNEYS for Michael Jackson's doctor dropped the bombshell on Friday they've been hinting at for months - an expert opinion accusing the legendary singer of causing his own death.
Dr Paul White, the defense team's star scientific witness, said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an infusion of that drug and others by Murray failed to put him to sleep. That combination of drugs could have had "lethal consequences," the researcher said.
White showed jurors a series of charts and simulations he created in the past two days to support the defense theory. He also did a courtroom demonstration of how the milky white anesthetic propofol could have entered Jackson's veins in the small dose that Murray claimed he gave the insomniac star.
White said he accepted Murray's statement to police that he administered only 25 milligrams of propofol after a night-long struggle to get Jackson to sleep with infusions of other sedatives.
The coroner attributed Jackson's June 25, 2009, death to "acute propofol intoxication" and a mix of other sedatives.
Dr Paul White, the defense team's star scientific witness, said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an infusion of that drug and others by Murray failed to put him to sleep. That combination of drugs could have had "lethal consequences," the researcher said.
White showed jurors a series of charts and simulations he created in the past two days to support the defense theory. He also did a courtroom demonstration of how the milky white anesthetic propofol could have entered Jackson's veins in the small dose that Murray claimed he gave the insomniac star.
White said he accepted Murray's statement to police that he administered only 25 milligrams of propofol after a night-long struggle to get Jackson to sleep with infusions of other sedatives.
The coroner attributed Jackson's June 25, 2009, death to "acute propofol intoxication" and a mix of other sedatives.
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