Did Michael Jackson commit suicide? According to lawyers representing the King of Pop’s former physician Dr. Conrad Murray, YES HE DID!
Defense lawyer Ed Chernoff made the sensational claims during a pre-trial hearing last week, insisting his client, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, was not responsible for the singer’s death in 2009. Chernoff claims Jackson was so upset about the state of his finances that he took his own life to escape his financial woes.
Chernoff told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor, “The crux of the defence is going to be that Michael Jackson engaged in a desperate act and took desperate measures that caused his death. We believe at the time Michael Jackson died he was a desperate man in relation to his financial affairs.”
But Deputy District Attorney David Walgren opposes the argument, insisting the defense is simply staging “an irrelevant sideshow” aimed at distracting the jury from the key fact that it was Murray who acted with gross negligence and administered the anaesthetic which killed Jackson.
