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Witness Testifies: Michael Jackson Likely Caused Own Death By Injecting Propofol

(GettyImages.com)During the manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray on Friday, the defense’s final witness testified that Michael Jackson probably caused his own death by injecting himself with a lethal dose of propofol.

Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist brought to the stand to counter the prosecution’s primary medical witness, told jurors he believes the insomnia-addled King of Pop took lorezepam, a sedative, and then self-administered the propofol that killed him.

“You think it was a self-injection of propofol between 11:30 and 12?” asked Murray’s lawyer, J. Michael Flanagan.

White replied, “In my opinion, yes.”

Murray’s defense team is hoping to establish the case that Jackson – not the doctor – administered the drug that ended his life in June 2009.

Dr. Steven Shafer, an expert for the prosecution, has said that he believes it’s highly unlikely Jackson gave himself the propofol.

Jurors still have to make up their minds, but members of the Jackson family were not swayed by White’s testimony.

“MiCHAEL DID NOT KILL HIMSELF!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!!!!!!” tweeted the late icon’s sister, La Toya Jackson, after today’s claims.

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  • Denese Christian

    This is really disturbing! That the “defense” could say this with a paid consultant just pisses me off!

    Never a big MJ fan but give him credit, and one of the credits I give him is he was a caring father; a caring father would never risk leaving his kids!

    Backing La Toya on this…

  • Miss Suzanne

    Also not a fan, but I do not believe he would have killed himself when he was
    1) right in the middle of making plans for a new tour, and
    2)a loving father, who would never leave his kids willingly.

    The doctor is responsible for is death. That much Propofol should NEVER have been available to Jackson, no matter how much money was offered/involved!
    What happened to Dr. Murray’s hypocratic oath?

  • http://twitter.com/WishLastinglove WishLastinglove

    Michael Jackson is a super star….Why people always want to connet him with so nasty thing….Just let him stay….

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth quinn

    MJ is the visual evidence of a very twisted system. A black man wanting to be white that loves touching little boys. NO GREAT LOSS. I thank the dr for ridding us of at least one useless waste of space. I thought the plastic faced freak would have done us the pleasure of offing himself years ago, but we should be so lucky….but no we are still ridden with his filthy presents with yet another court case wasting more valuable tax payers dollars trying to convict a man of drugging him to death. Do we reward this man for doing us all a service for putting down a filthy pedophile and perhaps ensureing another one of our young does not fall prey to the eccentric kiddy molester dressed as a clown? NO, we put him on trial instead. Do I think he done this deed of service? I do not know and I would expect the outcome of this “”TRIAL”" to be determined on who ever has the most money to spend on their case. Money seems to be the justice of our court system today not guilt! (OJ Simpson and various child molesting charges brought against our perverted side show freak as examples of our justice) I think we should stop the trial, let all concerned go home and erase this carnival fool from history..boom boom…

  • Guest

    I think it’s time to get some new meds elysabeth…

  • Anonymous

    A lot of people feel the way Elysabeth Quinn does.

  • Anonymous

    Elysabeth’s comments were a little over the top. But that is something I would expect from a right winger. MJ was never convicted of any wrong doing. He was simply a man looking to relive his lost childhood. We tend to elevate people for one reason or another without thinking of the consequences. Even today we have taken Justin Bieber, Charlie Sheen, and Shia Beloff and others who have missed out on their teen years but in adulthood will do very dumb things to get it back.

    I don’t think MJ would have killed himself on purpose. Not loving his children as much as he did. This doctor should have never been permitted to give drugs. It’s a clear case of manslaughter. And that is what he needs to be convicted of.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luna-Petunia/100000789652822 Luna Petunia

    This Doctor, as well as the one for the Prosecution are both considered ‘EXPERTS’ on the drug Propofol and everything related to it. Unfortunately, both have opposing opinions and that is why they are experts for the opposite sites. I believe this just lends to the theory, ‘truth’, we can’t ever know if MJ gave himself an injection (to himself or into the IV-IV would work alot better and faster-I haven’t followed the whole trial.) Too many holes, too many questions. It also comes down to, Murray is just charged with Manslaughter and not homocide, murder. I have no doubt MJ could give himself an injection of anything-he has been on Propofol before and for many years, according to his history, and he was a drug addict. Fans and especially his family will not admit it and can’t lump him like that because you get that picture of ‘disshevelled looking low lives heating drugs on spoons, injecting the crap into them, sharing needles and later dying of hepatitus or aids’. No, he had the money (or at least borrowed it) to keep his addictions to himself. Unfortunately, in every profession, there are people who are at the bottom, and DRs who sell drugs, give drugs out to addicts who are rich should be found and disbarred. (find out why they are doing it first-I would like to know if some resorted to it because the high cost of malpractice and lower insurance payouts-I know it is not probably most-some Drs. are addicts themselves, some love associating with Celebs, and some are greedy and want the Celebs money-I would like to know why some chance throwing away all that education for a chance of JAIL!). In the end, CA went OVERBOARD with a trial, well, because of MJ’s fans and family. A manslaughter case should have been over a long time ago…. and whether Conrad Murray is found innocent or guilty, it will not change most peoples’ minds.

  • Junie

    He was NOT a pedophile, Racist. He was a celebrity that was a victim of the tabloids that what they published melted into the minds of the weak. I don’t believe that Jackson would hurt any child. He just loved kids and wanted to recapture what he lost in his childhood. Those charges were people who wanted his money. That is why celebrities should be careful who they hang out with. That was his weakness. He didn’t know that the parents of those children were after his money. He was naive in that way. So who could he trust? Maybe that is why he went to taking the drugs + you have people around you like that doctor who are just there for the money. Celebrities always have a hard time with who to trust. I disagree with what you are saying. Why are you using Black people as examples? I have seen a lot of White people get off because of money. Why didn’t you use one of them as an example too? You sound like an outward RACIST… a KKK.

  • Phweston0269

    In the final analysis MJ should never have been left unsupervised while getting this drug and there should have been equipment available to resuscitate him in case of emergency. Jackson hired this man to be his personal MD, to administer this drug in a home setting and sadly, he seems to have gotten what he paid for.

  • Meg

    Quit eating all the shit the media feeds you.

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth quinn

    To junie, the reason I used MJ as the basis for what I was saying, idiot is because that is our topic of discussion. Not because he is black and that I am a racist but because if you look to the top of this page, its easy to do, you will see that he is what the topic is about. Fool. Yes he did like little children, a little too much in my opinion. If you believe that his admited level of enthusiasm with children in his bed is acceptable then perhaps we should be looking at your past, sicko. Work out what the term racist means before casting that opinion of me judged on what I have said. To teedoftaxpayer, Right winger? Where of earth would you surmise I am this out of what I’ve said. Please tell me how you came to this conclusion? I have been called a left wing extremist on many occasion and I feel this fits with who I am a little better. As you have called yourself teedoftaxpayer, I would expect you on a tangent now Occupy Wallstreet has opened your usually closed eyes and now you are on a quest to show your new found political beliefs. However, I feel you should read a little more on the subject to find out what someone from the right represents before casting that oninion on nothing I’ve said that supports this. There is a lot more in what I’ve said that I thought people would pull me up on but not this.????

  • Junie

    I guess there is a lot more in what you are saying, Racist. You people always read more into things. Your mind is weak from reading tabloids and do not have any critical skills. You right-wing,Racist. He loved children and that was it. You can play with children before their bedtime and not think of anything like that. Anyway, it was established that he did not sleep in the bed with them. Just because your mind is weak to that kind of thing doesn’t mean that he was. What you said all boiled down to one thing and that is you are a Racist.
    “Not because he is black and that I am a racist” – right there you did not admit that you are not a Racist.

  • Phweston0269

    The question was: Do you think MJ killed himself? It did not ask if he was a teabagger, a liberal, a pedophile or if he would have occupied Wall St. I answered the question asked hours ago. You may agree or disagree with my opinion, but please try to stay on point.There are lots of other sites where you can air your political and moral opinions and biases~~~please use them!

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth q

    Actually junie, I heard his sleeping habits with children from his own lips in an interview. As to whether I’m a racist or not, perhaps if was possible, you could talk to my half Torres Strait islander son on this issue. On his behalf,I quite often have to defend his position in this world from racist slurs. But as you do not know me,you would not know this….IDIOT. You dont seem to be very bright in your summizing of other people. Right Wing? What a childish statement from an obvious child like mind. But I know you do not believe this, and due to your two year old argument against me on racism, you have jumped on teedofftaxpayer’s bandwagon. How weak of you. But expected none the less.{I actually thought you would have went hunting for my bad spelling or grammer mistakes]! Most of my reading, in relation to politics, comes from a site called Z-net. Try looking it up and see how far to the right they are! It may be a little over your uneducated head, but try anyway. P.S. Name calling from smaller minded people, than myself, is amusing to me. It does not annoy me – so go hard!! To Phweston0269, I answered the question that was asked in my first statement. If people do not like my reply to this question and personally attack me, with unsupported accusations of racism and further go on to attack my political beliefs without credible evidence, I will defend myself however I choose. To all the true “”right wingers”" this is my democratic right as a human being with the freedom of speech! If however you do not like what I say you have the freedon to not engage by not reading it Or have me taken off this site. This is your choice!!

  • Anonymous

    Actually Michael’s management hired Dr. Murray. Not him.

  • Anonymous

    What in the heck does him being a pedophile, which he was NOT, have to do with Dr. Murray’s trial? Nothing. So basically u just need to stay on subject and not go off on allegations that was what 20 or 16 years ago. And he denied it too. And if he was a pedophile no one in their right mind would let him have his kids around him. They would have been taken away from him if that were the case. So pedophile he was not.

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth q

    well if Pedophile Jackson denied it, what more proof do you need? HAHA He also paid an out of court settlement so as not to go on trial, but hell he said he didn,t do it.

  • Junie

    Your problem is that you don’t know what the heck you are talking about and the other references. Stay on the subject and you won’t get yourself mixed up. You are the idiot, Racist… like this:

    “Dr. Steven Shafer, an expert for the prosecution, has said that he believes it’s highly unlikely Jackson gave himself the propofol.” I believe this also, not because I have 1st hand info like he does, but because Jackson loved his children dearly and wouldn’t have done anything that would hurt them like him not being there for them. He will be greatly missed by me and millions of others. Jackson gave us his all in his performances. RIP Michael Jackson.

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth q

    I think your problem Junie is you may be a little bit retarted. Are you special junie?Please tell me sweety as I can slow this down a notch or two for your smaller portioned mind. So what,no one with children could commit suicide? Is this your huge defence? Well, we better draw and quater the Dr then Junie! As I can see from your past few posts that you do indeed suffer from some sort of disposition towards intellegent rational conclusion, I will leave it there for now, so as not to over load you with too much! One last thing… If you have read any of what I have written in full , I know its hard for you to keep up, you would have noticed I have not said that the good Dr didnt do it. I just dont think we will get to the truth in an American court system.boom boom.

  • Junie

    Arrogant much! Name calling must stop. I’ll take the high road. Stick to the topic the next time. RIP Michael Jackson… We love you… at least most of us.

  • http://twitter.com/dakotaboyd1 elysabeth q

    Have a little look back over what’s been written and see where the name calling started junie! I think with you calling me a racist. I do agree, you should indeed take the high road. To MJ may your rotting corps be dug up and peed on. Do not RIP! We all do not love you. Chow for now!

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