Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of propofol without his doctor’s knowledge, a star witness said Friday as lawyers for accused medic Conrad Murray wrapped up their case.
The King of Pop probably also took a number of pills of the sedative lorazepam in the hours before his death in 2009, said Dr Paul White, the final witness at the manslaughter trial. “So you think it was self-injection of propofol … between 11:30 and 12 o’clock that did it?” Murray’s defense attorney Michael Flanagan asked White, after complex testimony about what exactly Jackson could have taken and when.
“In my opinion, yes,” said the respected anesthesiologist, who over two days refuted a string of arguments made by the prosecution about how Murray allegedly gave Jackson an overdose of cocktail of medicines. Jackson was found to have died of “acute propofol intoxication,” combined with sedatives lorazepam and midazolam on June 25, 2009 at his Los Angeles mansion, where Murray was treating him for insomnia.
