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Michael Jackson Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in HomeOctober 5, 2009
By LBG1
“I have always believed that if I simply tell the truth, I will be exonerated.â€
Dr. Conrad Murray, August 18, 2009
In a recent article published by the AP, AP Exclusive: Autopsy shocker: Jackson was healthy, not only was Michael Jackson “healthy” at the time of his death, according to the AP, “court documents state” Michael Jackson “died in his rented mansion”:
From the AP:
“Jackson died at his rented Los Angeles mansion June 25 after his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, administered the anesthetic propofol and two other sedatives to get the chronic insomniac to sleep, court documents state. Propofol, normally a surgical anesthetic used in operating rooms, acts as a respiratory depressant and requires constant monitoring,”
Had “court documents” definitively stated Michael Jackson “died” at his “rented Los Angeles mansion” as the AP article claimed?
So far, this area has been rather “murky”, of whether Michael Jackson’s “life” was “extended” by life-saving measures before he was “pronounced” dead at UCLA Medical Center. Accounts of the last hours of Jackson’s death are punctuated with medical jargon such as “faint pulse”, “unresponsive”, “resuscitate”, and failure to “revive”. The key witness in the last hours of Michael Jackson’s life when Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest: Dr. Conrad Murray, who was attending Jackson in Jackson’s home as his personal physician.
To date, Murray had given one “public” statement via a one minute Youtube video on August 18, and an interview with Gerald Posner, held a half-hour after the Youtube video was filmed.
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If you’re looking for any additional “details” from Murray on what occurred on June 25 in Posner’s interview, Posner summed up the interview in his first paragraph:
“In his first interview since Michael Jackson’s death, which the L.A. Coroner’s Office said was caused by an injection of propofol, the doctor who is at the center of the King of Pop homicide investigation frets about being a scapegoat, and insists that he wants to be exonerated.”
An interesting read, the interview was short on specifics regarding Michael Jackson’s death, other than Murray was “infuriated” at being “tagged” Jackson’s “enabler” or “concierge doctorâ€, which, Murray insisted, he was “neither”. Instead, he was Jackson’s “friend”. A “friend” who had “theories” about “other doctors and advisers” around Jackson who were “responsible for the star’s problems near the end of his life”.
Murray had this to say about his “biggest worry”:
What is your biggest worry? Without hesitating he says, “That I will be made the scapegoat.†For whom? He doesn’t want to blame others, doctors, or business advisers around Jackson, but clearly he has his own ideas of some of those who were responsible for any of the pop star’s problems near the end of his life.
Posner also interviewed Murray’s attorney Ed Chernoff who had this to say about his client “telling the truth” and “never changing his story”:
“Dr. Murray told the truth from the very first interviews with the police,†said Matt Alford, one of Chernoff’s partners and a ranking member of the defense team. “His story has never changed.â€
While Murray stated:
“I have always believed that if I simply tell the truth, I will be exonerated.â€
While it’s true, Murray’s “story”, the version being touted by Ed Chernoff and Murray spokesperson Miranda Sevcik, has remained “the same”, the authorities have a “different” version of Murray’s story, the version contained in the Aug. 25, search warrant affidavit.
Ed Chernoff and spokesperson Miranda Sevcik have given interviews, making statements on
Murray’s behalf, of Murray’s “version” of the events that occurred on June 25, the fateful day when Murray’s star patient succumbed to what authorities claim was a combination of lethal levels of the drug propofol and sedatives.
Versions, Statements, and Claims Regarding Michael Jackson’s “Death”
According to statements made by Murray’s spokesperson Miranda Sevcik, when Murray “found” Michael Jackson, Jackson “wasn’t breathing” but had a “weak pulse”. Jackson wasn’t declared dead until Jackson “was in the hospital”:
From Radar Online:
“Her claims are not consistent with Dr. Murray’s version of events,” Sevcik said. “LaToya was not in the house during the time she claims Prince was called into Jackson’s bedroom.
“Our version of events has not changed. Prince was never called into the bedroom and Dr. Murray found Micheal Jackson not breathing with a weak pulse. Mr. Jackson was not declared dead until he was in the hospital.”
Sevcik’s statement was in response to claims made by La Toya Jackson during an appearance on Barbara Walters’ ABC 20/20 on September 11, 2009:
Excerpt from La Toya Jackson’s appearance on ABC’s 20/20:
When asked by Walters if Murray murdered her brother, La Toya said, “Something went wrong. Something went wrong.â€
La Toya also addressed reports that Michael’s oldest son, Prince, was summoned by Murray the night of his father’s death to help resuscitate his father.
“He called Prince … Prince … watched him do this, Barbara. And you don’t do that to a child. You don’t do that to a child, especially when you knew prior to asking that child to come up, that Michael was no longer alive,†she said.
La Toya stressed that she believes Michael was dead long before Murray even called for Prince — but called the 13-year-old in, to “show that [he] had nothing to do with this.â€
The following video is a clip of La Toya’s September 11, ABC, 20/20 interview.
Sevcik’s statement, that Michael Jackson wasn’t “declared dead until he reached the hospital” is technically true as Jackson was “pronounced” dead at UCLA Medical Center at 2:26 pm, EST.
According to La Toya Jackson and the AP, Jackson had “died” while in his home. I decided to take a closer “look” at what was in the multiple page Search Warrant and Affidavit documents released by the Los Angeles Police Department relating to Michael Jackson’s death. A closer look at whether there was “evidence” in the court documents that backed up the AP’s and La Toya’s claim that Jackson had “died” at his home.
I also took look at other sources such as statements made by Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Steve Ruda, whose paramedics responded to the 911 call made from Jackson’s home, statements made by Jermaine Jackson during a press conference held at UCLA Medical Center, a few hours after his brother’s death, and, statements made by Dr. Conrad Murray’s attorney Ed Chernoff, and Miranda Sevcik, Murray’s spokesperson.
June 25, 2009, The Day Michael Jackson Died
A little over four hours after Michael Jackson’s official time of death, the LA Times published an article at 6:52 pm on the press conference held by Jermaine Jackson at UCLA Medical Center to announce the “King of Pop has passed awayâ€. Mentioned in the article: the time Michael Jackson arrived at the hospital, 1:14 pm, and Dr. Tohme R. Tohme, who, according to the Times, was Michael Jackson’s “personal physician”.
An excerpt:
“This is hard,†he said softly. “My brother, the legendary King of Pop, passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:26 p.m…. It is believed he passed away of cardiac arrest.â€
He said Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Tohme R. Tohme, was with him at the house and had tried to resuscitate him. He said paramedics also tried to revive his brother and “upon arriving at the hospital at 1:14 p.m., a team of doctors, including emergency physicians and a cardiologist, worked to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour but were unsuccessful.“
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Watching the video, it’s apparent how visibly distraught Jermaine was when attempting to speak about his brother’s tragic death which had occurred just hours earlier. What wasn’t in the video: the LA Times report that Jermaine had stated “Dr. Tohme R. Tohme was Jackson’s “personal physician”.
Here’s what Jermaine actually said:
“His personal physician who was with him at the time attempted to resuscitate my brother…”
At no point during the press conference did Jermaine name “who” Michael’s personal physician was. The Times has yet to print a retraction that Jackson’s personal physician was Dr. Conrad Murray, nor has the Times explained why the Times reporter stated that, during his press conference, Jermaine Jackson stated “Dr. Tohme” was Jackson’s “personal physician”.
Jermaine stated that his brother had “passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:26 p.m”. The time, “2:26 p.m.”, was the time Jackson was “pronounced dead” by Dr. R. Cooper, Emergency Physician, UCLA Medical Center.
Resuscitate: To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken
-Medterms.com
Revive: To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
-FreeDictionary.com
Jermaine also stated: Jackson’s “personal physician” tried to resuscitate his brother while at Jackson’s home, paramedics “tried to resuscitate” Michael, then, at the ER, physicians “worked to resuscitate” Michael “for a period of more than one hour but were unsuccessful”.
To date, the totality of official “court documents” in the Michael Jackson case released to the public have been two separate releases of search warrant documents: the original LAPD 14-page search warrant document, which included the “Declaration and Request” affidavit for the search warrant dated June 25, which was served at Michael Jackson’s home after his death.
The second round of Search Warrant documents, 23-pages, released on August 25th, stemmed from LAPD affidavits supplied to a Houston, Tx, Harris County District Court judge and were instrumental in proving probable cause to search Dr. Conrad Murray’s medical clinic and storage unit in Houston.
Included in both sets of search warrant documents, the affidavits: documents submitted to a judge or magistrate, needed to establish “probable cause”.
From Legal Dictionary:
A search warrant is a judicial document that authorizes police officers to search a person or place to obtain evidence for presentation in criminal prosecutions. Police officers obtain search warrants by submitting affidavits and other evidence to a judge or magistrate to establish Probable Cause to believe that a search will yield evidence related to a crime. If satisfied that the officers have established probable cause, the judge or magistrate will issue the warrant.
From Answers.com:
-An affidavit is voluntarily made without any cross-examination of the affiant and, therefore, is not the same as a deposition, a record of an examination of a witness or a party made either voluntarily or pursuant to a subpoena, as if the party were testifying in court under cross-examination.
-An affidavit is based upon either the personal knowledge of the affiant or his or her information and belief. Personal knowledge is the recognition of particular facts by either direct observation or experience. Information and belief is what the affiant feels he or she can state as true, although not based on firsthand knowledge.
-Affidavits serve as evidence in civil actions and criminal prosecutions in certain instances. They are considered a very weak type of evidence because they are not taken in court, and the affiant is not subject to cross-examination. Their use is usually restricted to times when no better evidence can be offered. If a witness who has made an affidavit is not available to testify at a trial, his or her affidavit may be admitted as evidence. If the witness is present, his or her affidavit is inadmissible except when used to impeach the witness’s testimony, or to help the witness with past recollection of facts.
According to Examiner.com, the August 25th “release” is the “official affidavit in its entirety, minus redaction’s made by law enforcement officers, pertaining to the search warrant that was issued in the Michael Jackson homicide case”.
The definition of “redaction” from Dictionary.com:
–verb (used with object)
1. to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
2. to draw up or frame (a statement, proclamation, etc.).
At an earlier date, I was able to find a link to the 14-page document, then fortuitously copied the document, as, a day later the link no longer directed to the document. While there are numerous links to the Search Warrant records released on August 25, I haven’t been able to find a link to the original June 25 search warrant records.
First up, what was written in the original search warrant affidavit pertaining to whether Jackson was found “dead” in his home.
On page 2, the document states:
-”on June 25, 2009 Robbery Homicide Detectives were assigned to investigate the death of Michael Jackson”.
-”Jackson was removed from his home to UCLA Medical Center” and then “pronounced dead at the hospital”.
Page three of the Affidavit states:
-”Family members and security staff” informed the police that “Mr. Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was with him at the time of his death.”.
The affidavit then stated:
-”Detectives met with Dr. Murray at UCLA Medical Center.”
-“Dr. Murray stated he was with the decedent (Michael Jackson) at the time of his death.”
-”Detectives obtained a short summary of the events and Dr. Murray left the hospital against the objections of the investigating officers.”
In the very next sentence, the affidavit “contradicts” the previous statement that Murray had been “interviewed and “gave a short summary” to investigators before he left:
“Officers have been unable to interview Dr. Murray, and the coroner’s office has not established a cause of death for for the decedent.”
Page 8 of the “official” August 25 Search Warrant and Affidavit stated:
-”Upon arrival, Dr. Murray met with Dr. R. Cooper, the physician in charge of the emergency department. Murray told Cooper he had given JACKSON two separate 2mg doses of LORAZEPAM (Ativan), during the course of the night”.
-”Cooper attempted to revive Jackson with negative results”.
-”Cooper pronounced Jackson’s death at 1426 (2:26 pm) hours.”
-”Murray refused to sign the death certificate, and the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office was summoned to the hospital.”
“Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Robbery Homicide Division (RHD)” were “assigned to assist the Coroner’s Office conduct an investigation”.
-”Upon arrival at UCLA Medical Center, neither the coroner’s investigators nor detectives could locate MURRAY to re-interview him. Repeated attempts at contacting and locating MURRAY were unsuccessful.”
On June 25, 5:20 pm, PST, the site, TMZ reported:
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.
* Michael Jackson Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in Home
* Continued on Page 2: Michael Jackson Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in Home, Part II
* Michael Jackson Autopsy: AP Reports Jackson Died in Home Part III
By LBG
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