Michael Jacksons Death Trial
Days before Michael Jackson died, the Director of the this is it tour confronted Dr. Conrad Murry about Micheal’s health,
The king of pop wasn’t coherent and at times so sick he wasn’t able to rehearse.
The testimony of Kenny Ortega, the co-director of Jackson’s “This Is It” tour, was as startling as the opening statements by the prosecution and Murray’s attorney.
As soon as the prosecutor David Walgreen showed the courtroom a photo of a ghostly Michael lying dead in the hospital bed.He also played a tape o fa conversation with Michael Jackson in which he slurred out all his word making it difficult for anyone to know what he was saying.
Murray’s attorney Ed Chernoff, told the court in his opening that Murray isn’t to blame for Jackson’s death, that Jackson gave himself a dose of drugs that killed him.
Murray could face four years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Ortega, the first witness called by the prosecution, said that on June 19, 2009, less than a week before Jackson was found dead from a drug overdose, Jackson arrived at rehearsal not feeling well at all.
Ortega was so disturbed by Jackson’s state that he sent an email to Randy Phillips of AEG Live, the concert promoter, saying that Important stuff was going on and that he felt that Michael Jackson should have a Psychological evaluation.
Jackson was preparing for a grueling 50-city comeback tour at the time of his death on June 25, 2009. The tour was to be his first in more than a decade and was of great personal importance. It would be the first time that Jackson’s three children would see him perform, Walgren said.
The packed courtroom included Jackson’s family and when the photo of Jackson’s corpse was show, Latoya Jackson could be seen passing tissues to Janet Jackson.