The Michael Jackson Manslaughter Trial against Conrad Murray Day #3

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Day # 3 of THE MICHAEL JACKSON MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL OF CONRAD MURRAY

Jackson doctor's trial: More witnesses to tragedy

Day Three of the Michael Jackson death trial wrapped up Thursday after lengthy testimony about what Conrad Murray, the doctor on trial for involuntary manslaughter, did in the moments before and after paramedics were called for the unresponsive singer.

Most of the testimony was by security guard Alberto Alvarez, an eyewitness to Murray's frantic attempts to revive the singer in his bedroom on June 25, 2009.
Prosecutors say Murray had negligently administered a fatal overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. Murray has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers contend Jackson self-administered the drug.

Alvarez said he saw Jackson on the bed, arms outstretched, eyes and mouth open. Murray told him Jackson had had a "bad reaction." Murray was giving Jackson chest compressions with one hand and said they had to get Jackson to a hospital. Jackson was wearing a penis catheter to carry urine away, Alvarez said.
Daughter Paris Jackson followed Alvarez in, crying and screaming "Daddy!" Alvarez said. He got Paris and her brother, Prince, out of the room at Murray's request, the witness said.

Murray scooped some vials off a nightstand and placed them in a bag Alvarez held open for him at the doctor's instruction. Murray then asked him to remove a clear saline bag from an IV stand and place it in another bag, Alvarez said.

That bag and a 100-milliliter bottle of propofol that Alvarez said he saw in the bag were shown to the jury.
Alvarez said he thought Murray was packing the material to take it to a hospital.
"I believed Dr. Murray had the best intentions toward Michael Jackson. So I didn't question his authority at the time," he told prosecutor David Walgren.

Later, defense attorney Ed Chernoff asked him, "Do you have any reason to think that Dr. Murray would want to conspire with you to hide evidence?"

Walgren objected to the question, the judge sustained the objection, and Alvarez did not answer.
Alvarez testified that at the bottom of the saline bag was "what appeared to me like a milky-white substance." Propofol is milky white and Jackson referred to it as his milk, witnesses have said.
Alvarez said that after he had placed vials and the IV bag in bags for Murray, the doctor asked him to call 911.

The call was played in court. In it jurors heard Alvarez tell fire department staffers that a 50-year-old man on the bed is not breathing and not responding to chest pumping.
"We have a personal doctor with him, sir," Alvarez reported.
"Oh, you have a doctor there?" the emergency tech asked. "Yes, but he's not responding," Alvarez said.
The 911 tech instructed Alvarez to move Jackson from the bed to the floor and said an ambulance was on the way.
Alvarez said he saw Murray clip a pulse oximeter to Jackson's index finger before they jointly placed Jackson on the floor.

He said Murray was giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After breathing into the singer's mouth a few times, Alvarez said, "he came up and he said, 'This is the first time I do mouth-to-mouth. But I have to, because he's my friend.'"

Chernoff cross-examined Alvarez, asking if he could have been "confused" and misstated the timeline, and that Murray could have asked him to place the vials and saline bag into other bags after the 911 call, not before. Alvarez insisted that it was before he called 911 and that he had time to do it all.

Chernoff suggested that not enough time had elapsed between when Alvarez was phoned to enter the residence from the security trailer at 12:18 p.m. and the call to 911 at 12:20 p.m., based on telephone records, for all the events Alvarez recounted — including ushering Prince and Paris from the bedroom — for him to have handled the vials and bag.

Beefy and crew-cut, Alvarez told prosecutor Walgren that he has turned down offers of as much as $500,000 for his story. He said his involvement in the tragedy has financially ruined him. His Jackson salary is gone and he gets only sporadic one-day security work for celebrities, he said.

Alvarez was followed to the witness stand by Jackson's Paris-trained personal chef, Kai Chase.
She testified that between 12:05 and 12:10 p.m., a distraught Murray ran partway down the back stairs to the kitchen screaming. "His energy was very nervous and frantic," she said, "and he was shouting, 'Get help! Get security! Get Prince!'"
She said, "He was very flustered, his eyes were big, he was screaming."

She summoned Prince from the den, she said, and did not call security.

Later, she said, she saw the three children and housekeepers in the foyer, "crying and screaming."
"We started hugging and we came together. We all joined hands in a circle and said a prayer."
"My heart is still broken," she said. "It was a very devastating day."
Tday, prosecutors are expected to call the two Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics who responded to the 911 call, Richard Senneff and Martin Blount.

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