Dr. Conrad Murray

After months of investigation Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray is to be charged with involuntary manslaughter. It has been reported that criminal-defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan to his defense team. The attorney won an acquittal in 2004 for a Southern California nurse on a similar charge.

According to Telegraph.co.uk, Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray charged with involuntary manslaughter

Prosecutors look set to seek a charge of involuntary manslaughter against Michael Jackson’s personal physician Dr Conrad Murray over the singer’s death.

A lengthy police investigation into Jackson’s death on June 25 has been completed and the case will be passed to the Los Angeles district attorney’s office within the next few weeks.

In order to prove involuntary manslaughter prosecutors will have to show that Dr Murray was negligent in his care of Jackson. Under California law the charge carries a maximum sentence of four years.

The move to pursue a charge of involuntary manslaughter was first reported by TMZ, the celebrity website that originally broke the news of Jackson’s death.

A law enforcement source later told the Associated Press that prosecutors would present their case to a grand jury and seek an indictment on that charge.

A spokeswoman for Dr Murray said the doctor had no comment and reiterated his claim that he neither prescribed nor administered anything that should have killed Jackson.

The singer died after suffering cardiac arrest at a mansion he was renting in Los Angeles where he was preparing for a series of concerts in London.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office ruled that his death was homicide after forensic tests found the powerful sedative propofol, and at least two other sedatives, in his system.

Dr Murray has admitted administering propofol to Jackson on the day he died to help him sleep but he claims the amount, 25 milligrams, was small and should not have been fatal.

He has previously described how he was treating Jackson for insomnia and had been trying to wean him off propofol.

In the meantime Eonline is reporting that Michael Jackson Doc Lawyers Up in Advance of Potential Manslaughter Charge

There’s no charge yet, but Michael Jackson’s physician isn’t taking any changes.

In the wake of reports that authorities are closer to seeking an involuntary manslaughter indictment against him, Dr. Conrad Murray has hired a new legal gun.

SoCal-based criminal-defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan has joined Team Murray, a rep for the lawyer confirmed to E! News.

Tellingly, Flanagan won an acquittal in 2004 for a Southern California nurse charged with involuntary manslaughter after a patient was administered an improper dose of the potent anesthetic propofol.

The coroner’s office ruled Jackson’s death a homicide due to a lethal cocktail of drugs, most notably “acute propofol intoxication.”

After his client was acquitted on the charges, Flanagan told media outlets that the jury found that the patient’s death was caused by “a mistake in judgment,” rather than manslaughter.

Meanwhile, neither the Los Angeles district attorney nor police would confirm an Associated Press report that the manslaughter charge was imminent.

“We haven’t received anything from our detectives yet,” an LAPD spokesman told E! News today. “It’s still an ongoing investigation.”

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