Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray court hearing postponed

A scheduled court hearing in Michael Jackson’s former doctor Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial has been postponed. Murray is accused of contributing to Jackson’s death by giving him a lethal dose of propofol and lorazepam.

The next hearing in the case was to take place on July 12, but LA Superior Court judge Michael Pastor accepted a request from both the defence and the prosecutor to delay Murray’s court appearance until July 20. The actual trial is to commence in September.

The motion was granted by Judge Pastor so that attorneys on both sides can spend more time analysing raw footage filmed for the posthumously-released concert movie This Is It, The AP reports.

The prosecution claims that the footage will prove that Jackson was in good health in the days leading up to his death, while Murray’s defence team contends that deleted scenes from This Is It will exhibit the singer as frail and sickly.

Murray’s attorney Nareg Gourjian said that his legal team have already gained “important” information from viewing select clips from hundreds of hours of concert rehearsal footage.

Gourjian explained: “There are about eight to ten different cameras that were recording the rehearsals and each one has different views and different footage. So it is critical that we review the footage from each camera.”

Murray has always insisted that he is not responsible for Jackson’s death, but could face up to four years behind bars if convicted.

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