A lawyer for Michael Jackson’s doctor filed papers Friday fighting new efforts by California’s attorney general to suspend his license to practice medicine in the state.

The lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray accused prosecutors of renewing an old motion before a new judge in hopes of winning a different result.
Another judge previously declined to suspend Murray’s license but ordered him not to administer anesthetics such as propofol, a drug that was implicated in Jackson’s death. Attorney Ed Chernoff argued that restriction is sufficient.

Murray has a pretrial hearing before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor on Monday in his involuntary manslaughter case. The medical license issue is expected to dominate the hearing. Murray has pleaded not guilty in the death of the pop legend a year ago.
Chernoff said in his filing that a motion filed last week by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office is the fourth identical effort filed on behalf of the state medical board. He said it has already been ruled upon and there are no changed circumstances in the case.

Pastor took over the case after Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz set Murray’s bail at $75,000. It was Schwartz who refused to suspend Murray’s license and barred him from administering strong anesthetics.

Murray’s lawyers have previously argued it is unnecessary to revoke his California license since he does not practice in the state. They also cautioned that a suspension would have a domino effect leading to his inability to practice at his clinics in Nevada and Texas, where he is also licensed.

Chernoff argued that a full evidentiary hearing would be required before action was taken on the license issue.
“The order the attorney general is seeking would be financially and personally devastating to Dr. Murray,” Chernoff said.
Last month, the cardiologist stabilized a woman who fell unconscious and had a weak pulse on a US Airways flight from Houston.

by The Associated Press

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Michael Jackson Was Very Thin, Sickly Before Death, Autopsy Finds
At the time of his death, Jackson was suffering from multiple ailments and using half a dozen medications.

Following the filing Monday of an involuntary-manslaughter charge against Conrad Murray in connection with the death of Michael Jackson, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office released its full autopsy report on the King of Pop, according to multiple reports.

The coroner concluded that Jackson died of “acute propofol intoxication” after Murray administered a dose of the powerful anesthetic sufficient for “major surgery.” Murray was using the drug to ease Jackson’s insomnia, but an expert cited in the autopsy said there were no reports about the use of propofol in insomnia relief. At no point was recommended equipment — from a controlled infusion pump for intravenous administration to monitoring machines — present in Jackson’s home when Murray gave the singer the tranquilizer.

Extremely underweight for his frame
The report also contained detailed information about the state of Jackson’s body after his death at age 50. At the time of the autopsy, he weighed 136 pounds, was measured at 5-foot-9 in length and was described as “extremely underweight for his frame.”

White patches of skin, the result of a pigmentation disorder called vitiligo, were present on his body, particularly his chest, abdomen, face and arms. The autopsy noted “frontal balding” on Jackson’s head and a bandage on the tip of his nose. He had dark tattoos close to each eyebrow and one pink tattoo close to his lips. His body was covered with small scars on his nose, knee, shoulder, neck and wrists.

The report concluded that at the time of his death, Jackson was suffering from “chronic lung inflammation, respiratory bronchiolitis, diffuse congestion and patchy hemorrhage of right and left lungs.” In addition to propofol, the autopsy discovered Jackson’s blood contained traces of lidocaine, diazepam, nordiazepam, lorazepam, midazolam and ephedrine.

Muray faces up to four years prison
During an arraignment hearing Monday, Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison.

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michael jackson before his death Search Of Michael Jacksons Home Uncovered Marijuana news Police searched home, at family’s urging, day after Jackson died.

Though the report turned out to be false, police searched Michael Jackson’s rented Los Angeles-area home the day after the singer died based on a tip from unnamed members of the singer’s family, who said they’d found what they thought was a bag of heroin in his bedroom.

The substance tested negative for heroin, but The Associated Press reports that the search did turn up several other drugs, including two bags of marijuana. It is unknown whom the pot belonged to, but the information — which came in an affidavit supporting a search warrant that was executed on June 26 — reveals that police combed through the rented Bel Air mansion three days earlier than any previously reported search.

The search warrant was one of two unsealed on Thursday at the request of media outlets, though a judge ordered two others to remain sealed. The AP reported that the warrants give an indication of how the police were directing their investigation into what killed the 50-year-old singer, noting that the one served on the Bel Air mansion on June 26 listed “PC 187,” the California penal code for murder, in the box labeled “probable crime.”

In addition to the marijuana, the search turned up the generic form of Valium, 12 bottles of the sedative/insomnia drug temazepam and several other prescription drugs and empty medication vials, with a detective noting that Jackson’s body showed signs of injections. The Los Angeles Times reports that no signs of marijuana or other illegal drugs were found in Jackson’s system in lab tests. The alleged tar heroin family members alerted police to in Jackson’s master bedroom turned out to be moldy marijuana, but the discovery prompted officials to obtain a search warrant for Jackson’s house for heroin, hypodermic needles, cutting agents, scales, balloons, condoms, razor blades, buyer lists, seller lists and other items associated with illicit drugs, the paper reports.

No one has been charged in Jackson’s death, though his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is reportedly at the center of a manslaughter investigation looking into drugs he may have prescribed or administered to Jackson. Murray’s lawyer has denied he administered or supplied anything that “should have” killed the singer, though Murray reportedly told police that he gave Jackson a series of sedatives and anesthetics in the hours before his death to combat the pop star’s chronic insomnia.

According to the affidavit, a search warrant for Murray’s car turned up some documents but no additional drugs. It also states that the doctor spoke to detectives in the hospital after Jackson’s death but only gave a brief summary of what happened and left the hospital over detectives’ objections.

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