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Michael Jackson's death ruled homicide
Associated Press ^ | August 24, 2009

Posted on 08/24/2009 6:08:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo)— The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide with a fatal combination of drugs given to the pop star hours before he died in late June, the Associated Press reported Monday.

Quoting a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the report said the powerful anesthetic propofol acted together with at least two sedatives to cause Jackson's death, adding that criminal charges will likely be filed against the doctor who was with him when he died.

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1 posted on 08/24/2009 6:08:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whoa bud! The King of Pop done in by... manslaughter, I guess.


2 posted on 08/24/2009 6:11:36 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

OK the doctor did it with his little syringe. Surprise surprise! Now can we please stop talking about MJ?


3 posted on 08/24/2009 6:12:06 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

WHO CARES???????


4 posted on 08/24/2009 6:12:17 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Motive?


5 posted on 08/24/2009 6:12:34 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh great.

How many more years of hearing about THIS crap and reliving this perverted has-beens life?


6 posted on 08/24/2009 6:12:42 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess I should avoid television completely for the next two weeks, huh? Except for things like the Mayberry RFD rerun channel.


7 posted on 08/24/2009 6:12:42 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: john in springfield
Thank God the Doctor that did him in wasn’t Caucasian.
8 posted on 08/24/2009 6:14:39 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: john in springfield

Wow, could this lead to a “trial of the century”? I wonder if the doctor would face murder charges. Perhaps manslaughter or whatever the legal term is for doctors administering drugs improperly. I briefly heard a news report that Jackson had high levels of some anesthetic drugs in his system, and , that these drugs normally are never used outside a hospital setting when someone is having surgery. So this doctor will have lots of explaining to do, if he’s to avoid indictment or prison.


9 posted on 08/24/2009 6:14:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Since the Doctor was making x amount of dollars per month what was the motive to knock off his cash cow?

Perhaps, he kept Michael alive longer than others would have? Michael had enough money to srround himself with people who always said yes.

Yeah, I know. Can’t tarnish an icon’s image. Have to find someone to blame.

Clearly, Michael would never make a bad choice or assert his will over anyone or thing.


10 posted on 08/24/2009 6:15:02 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Perhaps the doctor had just concluded a life-cycle talk with MJ and postulated that he was becoming a drag on his family, so end-o-life was MJ’s conclusive decision. He was said to be ahead of his time, so he was already agreeing with ObamaCare’s forward thinking...?


11 posted on 08/24/2009 6:15:07 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: digger48
Did anyone ever doubt the MJ would suffer an early death due to complications from plastic surgery, a drug overdose, a drug reaction or something of that sort?

You can only abuse your body for so long before it starts abusing you back.

12 posted on 08/24/2009 6:15:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Ditter
Surprise surprise! Now can we please stop talking about MJ?

Don't you just wish? With this finding we'll have wall-to-wall MJ on TV for the next 2 years at least. This is like manna from heaven to Nancy Grace and that cohort. Greta will be on it like a lawyer chasing an ambulance. Oh wait, she IS a lawyer.

13 posted on 08/24/2009 6:15:37 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I can’t imagine a murder charge sticking, it’s manslaughter at best. But the Jackson Family is pushing hard for it to be murder to try to protect MJ’s reputation, they are overreaching big time.


14 posted on 08/24/2009 6:17:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: taillightchaser
WHO CARES???????

Perhaps a good place to start is with those who open a thread like this.

15 posted on 08/24/2009 6:17:57 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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To: Safrguns

Stupidity?


16 posted on 08/24/2009 6:19:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Obamacare: all the efficiency of the DMV and all the compassion of the IRS.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if the doctor would face murder charges.

Unlikely, the proper call here would be criminally negligent homicide, equating to manslaughter, 2d degree, at best. No malice aforethought, no heat of passion, no "depraved indifference to human life", just simple negligence, with a fatal outcome. There's no way that equates to murder...

the infowarrior

17 posted on 08/24/2009 6:19:57 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh, God help us. Now MJ will be a martyr and we will be subjected to MJ tributes for the next frackin’ 5 years.


18 posted on 08/24/2009 6:25:41 PM PDT by LiberConservative (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They have no idea if it is murder. They just want to have a big hollywood show trial to keep their names in the papers.


19 posted on 08/24/2009 6:27:40 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Racism is what did it. Black against black/s


20 posted on 08/24/2009 6:32:20 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If you’re gonna inject propofol ya gotta make sure you have
equipment to intubate the patient and breath for them in case they don’t breath. Adding it on top of lorazepam is asking for trouble.


21 posted on 08/24/2009 6:32:46 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Manslaughter? That's assuming he's a man.

He sure tried hard to be otherwise.

22 posted on 08/24/2009 6:33:37 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
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To: john in springfield

They only call it “manslaughter” because because “pervertedandrogynousfreakslaughter” is not in the statutes.


23 posted on 08/24/2009 6:44:17 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hey Obama, no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

More black on black crime. Will it never end?


24 posted on 08/24/2009 6:59:29 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s a weird but somewhat fitting end to his strange, life - Michael Jackson, inadvertently euthenized by his own private doctor on his Neverland Ranch.


25 posted on 08/24/2009 7:00:37 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Heck it was a matter of time.

Michael Jackson was REQUIRING these illegally obtained drugs. This doctor just happened to be in the hot seat when he died. Yes, he was an unethical doctor but that was the only kind that Michael could enlist to feed his drug habit.

26 posted on 08/24/2009 7:01:26 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh my God... Michael Jackson is dead????????


27 posted on 08/24/2009 7:08:15 PM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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To: PGR88

it didn’t occur at Neverland...


28 posted on 08/24/2009 7:08:30 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If reports are true, based on the variety, types and amounts of drugs administered that night, this was no treatment for insomnia and an addict’s “tolerance” wouldn’t factor in....someone wanted MJ to sleep...permanently.


29 posted on 08/24/2009 7:11:35 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin supports a "path to citizenship" = AMNESTY for illegal aliens. .... DEMINT '12)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It was just a matter of time. This doctor just happened to be the unlucky fellow to lose the game of musical chairs that’s all.


30 posted on 08/24/2009 7:14:06 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: tina07

It’s Michael Jackson....facts don’t matter. /s off


31 posted on 08/24/2009 7:14:49 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin supports a "path to citizenship" = AMNESTY for illegal aliens. .... DEMINT '12)
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To: Gator113
Oh my God... Michael Jackson is dead????????

Man, they really kept a lid on that. You would think the media would have made a circus over an event like that.

32 posted on 08/24/2009 7:19:08 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Quoting a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the report said the powerful anesthetic propofol acted together with at least two sedatives to cause Jackson's death, adding that criminal charges will likely be filed against the doctor who was with him when he died.

And why weren't charges like these not leveled against Ted Kennedy in Mary Jo's death?

33 posted on 08/24/2009 7:20:14 PM PDT by DejaJude
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No way to convict of murder...it’s just ridiculous.

No law says propofol can’t be administered by an MD anywhere.

Best this rises to is poor medical judgment... a malpractice suit is as far as it can go.


34 posted on 08/24/2009 7:33:25 PM PDT by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m still waiting for Bubbles’ tell-all book. He promises to name names...


35 posted on 08/24/2009 7:40:47 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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To: MagnoliaB

I’d like to see his medical college admission file.

I’m wondering if this guy is an aa hire.


36 posted on 08/24/2009 7:46:47 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: Lawgvr1955; Gator113
Oh my God... Michael Jackson is dead????????

Man, they really kept a lid on that. You would think the media would have made a circus over an event like that.

Who's Michael Jackson?

sarc/
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37 posted on 08/24/2009 8:14:05 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: rcrngroup

I think, he is a basketball player.


38 posted on 08/24/2009 8:27:52 PM PDT by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Safrguns

Life insurance.


39 posted on 08/24/2009 9:02:04 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin supports a "path to citizenship" = AMNESTY for illegal aliens. .... DEMINT '12)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Intrade’s contract on this seems to have been prescient.

Legal - Michael Jackson
Person(s) to be charged with manslaughter, homicide or other unlawful killing of Michael Jackson.
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
JACKSON.MURDER.DEC09
Person(s) to be charged with manslaughter, homicide or other unlawful killing of Michael Jackson. M Trade 93.0 94.9 94.9 5921 +15.0
JACKSON.MURDER.DEC10
Person(s) to be charged with manslaughter, homicide or other unlawful killing of Michael Jackson. M Trade 93.6 96.0 95.0 1075 +15.0


40 posted on 08/24/2009 9:32:24 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: Dallas59

Racism? Uh, could you really call Micheal Jackson BLACK at the end?


41 posted on 08/24/2009 11:02:37 PM PDT by PandaRosaMishima (she who tends the Nightunicorn; who is glosser of Titanic's wings)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; devolve; potlatch; Fiddlstix; PhilDragoo; y'all
And in other news today:

Generalissimo Franco is still dead! :)


42 posted on 08/25/2009 8:06:05 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: infowarrior

“no “depraved indifference to human life””

I’m not too sure about that. Depraved indifference, it would seem to me, would be calling in MJ’s young son to do CPR on the BED and waiting something like an hour and a half to call an ambulance???


43 posted on 08/25/2009 8:45:06 AM PDT by battletank
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s a travesty. The doctor was administering a cocktail of benzodiazpines plus the anesthetic to help him sleep.

I have no idea how this guy expects his malpractice insurance to cover him, if he’s sued.

I heard that he was in debt to his eye balls, so they’re not going to get anything out of him.

The state board should revoke his license.


44 posted on 08/25/2009 1:23:53 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Happy Ramadan, Mr. President.)
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To: battletank
I’m not too sure about that. Depraved indifference, it would seem to me, would be calling in MJ’s young son to do CPR on the BED and waiting something like an hour and a half to call an ambulance???

While "depraved indifference" is sometimes used, it's fuzzy enough that most prosecutors are disinclined to go that route, as its difficult to establish in the mind of a jury how it would apply in a given case, high-profile cases in particular...

the infowarrior

45 posted on 08/26/2009 9:21:15 AM PDT by infowarrior
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