For the second week in a row, Dr. Conrad Murray owns the collision between pop culture and law. After a bunch of will-he-or-won’t-he-surrender-be-arrested-or-be-arraigned nonsense, Dr. Murray finally was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday. So, why not a higher degree of homicide? To prove “murder,” the prosecutors would have to show that Dr. Murray intended to kill MJ, but no such evidence has surfaced. Instead, this seems to be a case about a doctor who recklessly supplied a celebrity with medicine that experts say should not have been administered in a home setting, no matter how big of a celebrity the patient was and no matter how much money he was being paid. Have a good weekend, Popbytes peeps. Remember, don’t drink and drive.
† Video: Dr. Conrad Murray Charged & Arraigned
† Dr. Murray Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter
† Joe Jackson To King: Murray Charges Not Enough
