Day two in the manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray included testimony from Michael Jackson’s personal assistant and head of security as well as employees of AEG Live, which was promoting his doomed This Is It comeback tour.
Among yesterday’s revelations:
Michael Emir Williams, Jackson’s personal assistant, says Dr. Murray was “frantic” on the day the singer died and left him an urgent voice message. Williams said he returned Murray’s call minutes later and recalled that Murray said Jackson had a bad reaction and that he should immediately send someone. Jackson’s assistant noted that Murray did not tell him to dial 911.
In establishing a timeline of events, the prosecution established that Murray called Williams at 12:13 p.m., rather than calling for an ambulance. An ambulance wasn’t called until 12:20 p.m.
Murray requested a CPR machine for Jackson during his run of shows in London.
Faheem Muhammad, the ex-chief of Jackson’s security team, said Jackson’s oldest children reacted in horror when they saw their father dead.
Another witness testified that Murray may have sought to hide evidence of drug use.
AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware returned to the stand and testified that Murray had initially asked for $5 million a year to take care of Jackson. When that was rejected, Michael insisted that he wanted Murray to be his personal physician and instructed Gongaware to offer $150,000 a month.
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