Fall Murray/MJ - Anklage Fahrlässig od. Tötung?

[Lamalouie]

Na ja, was sollen sie schon sonst schreiben?
Murray packt schon mal die Koffer und macht 'ne Umschulung als Bleistiftanspitzer?

Sleepless - prima Bemerkung, aber selbst das wäre zuviel der Ehre für CM.

[Christine3110]

Jup, det habe ich auch verstanden.
Erin konnte nicht sagen woher diese neuen Beweise stammen. Wohl von anonymer Quelle?

es handelt sich wohl um eine CD-ROM ?! Die Anwälte beraten sich.

[lieschen00]

es handelt sich wohl um eine CD-ROM ?! Die Anwälte beraten sich.

Ja, so hab ich das auch verstanden... eine CD mit 3 Voice-Mails und 12 Screenshots....

[Sleepless]

TMZ hat auch gerade geupdated.

Wobei es mich schon wieder stutzig macht, dass die Verteidigung da so fix zugestimmt hat. Wärs' ne Bombe würde das doch nicht so schnell gehen oder?

[lieschen00]

http://www.tmz.com/category/michael-jackson-manslaughter-prelim/

"Judge: Murray's iPhone Admissible as Evidence

Judge Michael Pastor ruled this morning that recently obtained data from Dr. Conrad Murray's iPhone can admitted as evidence.

According to Murray's attorney, Ed Chernoff, the phone contains a few short voicemails and 12 screenshots that may be used as evidence during the hearing.

The prosecution has used phone records create a timeline of what Murray did on the day Michael Jackson died."


Grobe Übersetzung:

"Richter: Murray's iPhone als Beweismittel zugelassen

Richter Michael Pastor entschied heute Morgen, dass vor kurzem erhaltene Daten von Dr. Conrad Murray's iPhone als Beweismittel zugelassen werden.
Nach Murrays Anwalt Ed Chernoff enthält das Telefon ein paar kurze Sprachnachrichten und 12 Screenshots, die als Beweismittel in der Voranhörung verwendet werden könnten.
Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat Telefondaten verwendet, um eine Zeitleiste über Murrays Handeln am 25.6. zu erstellen. "

[SMILE-77]

Danke lieschen, dass du dir die Mühe der ÜBersetzung machst. Ich finde einige Details sehr wichtig und es ist nochmal was anderes als die grobe Zusammenfassung. Auf die Details kommt es jetzt an. Z.b. wieso sollte AA ausdrücklich nicht rennen, sondern gehen??? Das macht mich sehr stutzig...!

Also ich denke, weil er sich noch außerhalb des Hauses befand und ein Rennen die (evtl) Paparazzi aufmerksam gemacht hätte.
Ist nur meine Vermutung...

[Christine3110]

TMZ hat auch gerade geupdated.

Wobei es mich schon wieder stutzig macht, dass die Verteidigung da so fix zugestimmt hat. Wärs' ne Bombe würde das doch nicht so schnell gehen oder?

Ich habs jetzt so verstanden, dass die Verteidigung auch davon überrascht wurde. Der Richter hat verfügt, dass einiges davon als Beweismaterial zugelassen wird.

[sternenkucker]

Ich hoffe sooooooo das die Anwälte der Fam. Jackson aufpassen, denn die Gegenseite wird alles was in ihrer Macht steht.......auftischen, ..ach wenn doch der T.Meserau dabei wär

[maeionu]

Ich hoffe sooooooo das die Anwälte der Fam. Jackson aufpassen, denn die Gegenseite wird alles was in ihrer Macht steht.......auftischen, ..ach wenn doch der T.Meserau dabei wär

Das habe ich mir auch schon gewünscht !

[Christine3110]

Die zugelassenen Beweise von CMs i-phone sollen negative für CM sein. Der Teil der nicht zugelassen wurde, sei unter Anwalt/Klienten "Geheimnis" zu verbuchen.
Wie kommt das? Hat CM direkt nach dem Unglück schon einen Anwalt kontaktiert? Vllt. noch bevor er den Notruf von Alvarez tätigen ließ?
Hatte Chernoff nicht schon 2-3 Tage nach dem 25. eine öffentl. Erklärung abgegeben?

[Brigitte 58]

Texas Lawyer

July 20, 2009


What does a criminal-defense lawyer do when the whole world points a finger at his client?

If you're Houston lawyer Ed Chernoff and your client was the King of Pop's personal physician, you enlist the help of your partners in an effort to redirect the 24/7 news cycle and show how your client cooperated with police — then you hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Chernoff, a partner in Houston's Stradley, Chernoff & Alford, represents Dr. Conrad Murray, who on June 25 found Michael Jackson in bed not breathing but with a pulse. Murray tried to resuscitate Jackson, 50, and then rode with him in the ambulance to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where the singer died that day.

With Jackson's death came nearly instantaneous reports in the media that the megastar may have been abusing prescription medications. And with that news, Murray was thrust into the spotlight.

"Every decision we have made we have had in mind that [Los Angeles prosecutors] could charge Dr. Murray, irrespective of his guilt," Chernoff says, adding that his client did nothing wrong.

At the hospital on June 25, shortly after Jackson died, Los Angeles Police Department officials questioned Murray — who is licensed to practice medicine in Texas, Nevada and California. That same day, the LAPD impounded Murray's car so authorities could search for evidence. The doctor was not represented by a lawyer at the time, Chernoff says.

But by the mid-afternoon on June 26, Murray, who has offices in Houston and Las Vegas, had called Chernoff. Another Houston lawyer, who Chernoff declines to identify, recommended his firm to Murray. When Murray called, Chernoff says he was 50 percent sure it was a hoax so he insisted Murray wire money for at least a portion of his $1,200 last-minute plane ticket to California before he agreed to fly out there.

Chernoff says Murray recognized he needed a lawyer because "all hell broke" after Jackson's death. Murray hired "legal counsel to help guide him through the police investigation process" and "to make sure the police investigation is conducted properly," Chernoff says.

The evening of June 26, Chernoff says he flew from Houston to California to meet with Murray at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, a location the two men picked to avoid the paparazzi. Murray relied upon his partners William Stradley and Matt Alford — all three are former assistant district attorneys in Harris County who have been in private practice together since 1999 — to handle matters in Houston. Alford says before Chernoff left for California he called Alford to say Murray had hired the firm and Chernoff needed help and their expertise on police procedures. Alford says he promised Chernoff that he would "hold down the fort in Houston," while Chernoff flew West to meet their new client. [See "Houston Lawyer Representing Doctor With Michael Jackson When He Died," Texas Lawyer, Tex Parte Blog, June 29, 2009.]

At the Ritz-Carlton, Murray and Chernoff created an office in a private room at the hotel restaurant. On June 26 and June 27, Chernoff says, he began negotiating with the LAPD regarding the police's scheduled second interview of Murray. Chernoff says he asked the LAPD officers to meet Murray and himself at the hotel to avoid unwanted press attention. And Chernoff says he asked the police to control leaks. "The agreement with them right from the get-go was no leaks," recalls Chernoff, "with the understanding that you can't protect completely from leaks in the long term."

"At that initial point of time . . . you hope you can keep things pretty clean. First, you want to know where the police's initial investigation is headed. You certainly don't want the investigation to be politicized. We knew everyone is looking for someone to blame. So you identify where the investigation is heading and how that is going to fit into what your client is going to tell them."

On June 27, the LAPD issued a press release regarding Murray stating: "On June 27, 2009, Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who was with Michael Jackson at the time of his collapse, voluntarily contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. Detectives assigned to Robbery-Homicide Division met with Dr. Murray and conducted an extensive interview. Dr. Murray was cooperative and provided information which will aid the investigation." Tenesha Dobine, a spokeswoman for the LAPD, says the department has not issued any more statements regarding Murray.

The weekend after Jackson's death, Chernoff didn't sleep much. On June 27, Chernoff says, he was too busy with Murray and the police to pay attention to the dozens of emergency text messages he received from his partners in Houston.

By mid-morning June 27, Alford recalls, the rollercoaster started. The Houston Chronicle posted a story identifying Chernoff and his partners as Murray's counsel, Alford says, and within a half an hour, "the top blew off things." His BlackBerry, where calls to the firm's office were forwarded, began ringing every 30 seconds with calls from reporters, Alford says. Local television news trucks parked outside Alford's house. Network news representatives began calling to request interviews with Murray.

Alford needed help. So he called Stradley, who was looking forward to a week of vacation having just finished preparing for trial on another case. Stradley recalls his wife, who picked up the phone, told him that Alford wanted him to put on a suit and go over to his house. Puzzled and not yet up to speed on Murray's situation, Stradley went to Alford's house and they began splitting up the task of returning the press calls. Having talked only briefly to Chernoff, Alford and Stradley attempted to correct what they say was misinformation about Murray that was dominating the 24/7 news cycle.
They stressed to reporters that Murray intended to cooperate with the police and that he was not





stonewalling. Indeed, they told reporters that Murray was about to meet with the LAPD for a second time, recalls Stradley.

Alford sought additional reinforcements. He called Tammy Kidd, a former Harris County prosecutor who now works with Miranda Sevcik, the founder of Houston-based media consulting firm Media Masters. Alford says he asked Kidd and Sevcik to help them manage the press. By the early afternoon on June 27, Alford, Stradley, Kidd and Sevcik all were busy fielding press calls.

Sometime that Saturday, Alford says, the firm's Web site suffered a blowout from too many hits. He had Sevcik and Kidd work to fix the problem and establish a blog devoted to Chernoff's press statements regarding Murray. Since then, Chernoff has used the blog to provide reporters with updated information about Murray.

During those first days with his client in California, Chernoff knew publicity would factor into his representation of Murray, but he "wasn't fully aware of how crazy it was going to get," he says.

Chernoff and Murray met with the LAPD at the Ritz-Carlton the evening of June 27; Chernoff declines to say what his client told the police. After the three-hour meeting, Chernoff says he spoke with his partners in Houston. "When I finally got hold of them, then I realized the magnitude of the interest and was able to start looking at some of the preliminary press reports," he recalls.

Initially, Chernoff says, he told Alford to stop returning reporters' phone calls. But Chernoff says Alford told him, "You are not going to shut anything down. You don't know what the f**k is happening." Then Sevcik got on the phone to tell Chernoff that a "Dateline NBC" news producer wanted him to appear on the television show. Chernoff taped the show in Los Angeles on Sunday June 28. During the broadcast, Chernoff says he was able to deliver his main messages about his client: Murray was cooperating with police; he did not prescribe Demerol or Oxycontin to Jackson; he had only treated Jackson for a short period of time; and other doctors had treated and prescribed medication for Jackson.

Chernoff didn't get to watch the Sunday "Dateline" broadcast since he was on a plane to Houston when it aired. When he got home, he slept for only a few hours, then he, his partners and the PR team met and decided they needed more TV appearances to get their message out about Murray. The morning of Monday June 29, Chernoff and Alford made their way to a Houston TV studio to appear on all of the network morning news programs, as well as on CNN and Fox News.

Chernoff believes the blitz that Monday helped his client. Sevcik says before the media interviews, she looked at roughly 100 comments posted on 20 different Web sites and only about 25 percent of those comments said Murray was an innocent bystander in Jackson's death. After the Monday media appearances by Chernoff and Alford, that figure rose to 75 percent, Sevcik says.

Chernoff stresses that his client did nothing wrong and Chernoff wants to make sure the public knows that. The message is especially important in case Murray is charged with a crime, because it will improve Murray's chances of an unbiased jury pool and getting a fair trial. "It's different when you are working with an innocent client. If you have a guilty client, you shut up. But we still believe once toxicology is finally and fully done that our client is going to be proven to be innocent," Chernoff says.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office performed an autopsy on Jackson's body on June 26, but it has not yet determined the cause of death, and the toxicology report is not complete. "I don't think anyone knows when it's going to be released," says Stradley.

On June 30, Chernoff flew to Las Vegas to bring Murray a secure cell phone to prevent electronic eavesdropping as well as to collect certain documents. Chernoff says, given the death threats the doctor has received, Murray is reluctant about seeing patients. Murray now travels with a bodyguard and most of the time he stays at his Las Vegas home in a gated community.

Chernoff says he is in constant contact with the LAPD, and officers may want to interview Murray again. "We will be happy to meet with them. We just don't want to get into irrelevant discussions," Chernoff says. If prescription medications were responsible for Jackson's death, "we are completely in the dark about the drugs that were in [Jackson's] system. We're completely in the dark about what drugs would have killed him."

Chernoff states "unequivocally" on his blog that "there was no Demerol or Oxycontin administered or prescribed by Dr. Murray" to Jackson and that "Dr. Murray didn't prescribe anything that should have killed Michael Jackson. . . . There's nothing in his history, nothing that Dr. Murray knew, that would lead him to believe [Jackson] would go into sudden cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. There was no red flag available to Dr. Murray, which led him to believe [Jackson] would have died the way he did. It's still a mystery how he died."
Who Is Ed Chernoff?

After graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 1987, Chernoff worked as a prosecutor until 1991 in the Harris County District Attorney's Office, which then was led by DA Johnny Holmes. On his job application, Chernoff wrote that his hobbies included "sleeping and eating."

At the DA's office, he earned a reputation as a talented trial lawyer with a sharp wit, according to supervisors' comments in his personnel file, which Chernoff provided to Texas Lawyer .

Since starting in private practice, Chernoff has handled some big cases, but he says he has never had a client who attracted as much media attention as Murray. In 2003, Chernoff defended Steven Puffer, who was acquitted by a jury after 15 minutes of deliberation for allegedly hacking into the Harris County district clerk's wireless computer system. That same year, Chernoff won an acquittal for Roland Angelle, who was alleged to have pulled a gun on legendary plaintiffs lawyer Walter Umphrey of Beaumont's Provost HUmphrey.

Mention Chernoff to other lawyers who've handled high-profile clients and cases and they note his affinity for body-building and tattoos, at least one of which was acquired during a three-month sabbatical from the DA's office during which Chernoff drove a motorcycle around the country. They also say he and his partners are excellent lawyers.

"I think Ed, Matt and Bill have done a superb job and done an excellent job of making clear their client was cooperating with police," says Chip B. Lewis, a Houston criminal-defense solo who represented Kenneth Lay, former chairman and chief executive officer of Houston's Enron Corp., who in 2006 was found guilty of conspiracy, fraud and making false statements. Lewis also represented Robert Durst, the heir to a real-estate empire who in 2003 was acquitted of murder for allegedly killing his 71-year-old Galveston neighbor.

Rusty Hardin of Houston's Rusty Hardin & Associates, who has represented Arthur Andersen LLP and baseball player Roger Clemens, supervised Chernoff when they both worked in the DA's office. Hardin says Chernoff is an excellent attorney with a great sense of humor. He warns, however, that Chernoff will have to be careful about what he says regarding the Jackson case because of the media attention. Hardin says Chernoff has done well in the couple of interviews Hardin has seen on TV. But Hardin says he has discovered through experience that with some high-profile clients, specifically with Clemens, it's better to stop returning reporters' phone calls.

Johnny Sutton, the former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas who recently launched the Austin office of Ashcroft Sutton Ratcliffe, also worked with Chernoff when they were assistant DAs in Harris County. Sutton says Chernoff "has a great sense of humor. He is wickedly smart. He beats to a different drummer but that makes him much more powerful in the courtroom."

But Dan Cogdell of Houston's Cogdell Law Firm, who represents Laura Pendergest-Holt, the former chief investment officer at Stanford Financial Group who was the first executive charged in the government's investigation of R. Allen Stanford's financial companies, says he has concerns about how much talking Chernoff and his partners have done with the press. "It's admirable if it's accurate, but it's devastating if it isn't," he says about the details Chernoff has provided about Murray's activities before and after Jackson's death. If Chernoff and his partners are relying on Murray's account of events exclusively, they may have problems, Cogdell predicts. At this early stage of an investigation, Cogdell says, clients are not always reliable about getting all the facts right. "The older I get the more I take the position that I have never won a case in the press, although I have lost a few," Cogdell says.

Similarly, David Botsford advises that Chernoff and his partners be cautious when dealing with the press. Botsford is a partner in Austin's Botsford & Roark who represented two U.S. Border Patrol agents in their appeals of convictions for shooting an illegal immigrant. Earlier this year, then-President George W. Bush commuted the former agents' sentences. "You always have to put the clients' interest as paramount," Botsford says. "Lawyers can get into a conflict of wanting to generate press, which helps the lawyer, but can also hurt your client. You have to constantly remind yourself of that. The major rule is if in doubt, don't talk."

Chernoff says Murray's freedom is his priority. "If this case is charged, I worry greatly about Dr. Murray because it's going to be a long trial, incredibly expensive, expert costs are going to eat it up. Real justice is only obtained if you have the money to really do what is necessary. My big concern is that Dr. Murray or any private citizen wouldn't have the money." Chernoff says Murray "doesn't have a pot to piss in," and Chernoff doesn't even know if he will get paid for his legal services.

For the three lawyers at Stradley, Chernoff & Alford, their new client has been all-consuming. Notes Chernoff, "It has taken up a lot of our time and a lot of energy and thought process, but my clients have been great. And the lawyers in Houston have been great. That is one of the great things about lawyers in Texas. People are extremely pleased that there are Texas lawyers involved in this case."

http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202432336515&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

[Hippolytos]

Die zugelassenen Beweise von CMs i-phone sollen negative für CM sein. Der Teil der nicht zugelassen wurde, sei unter Anwalt/Klienten "Geheimnis" zu verbuchen.
Wie kommt das? Hat CM direkt nach dem Unglück schon einen Anwalt kontaktiert? Vllt. noch bevor er den Notruf von Alvarez tätigen ließ?
Hatte Chernoff nicht schon 2-3 Tage nach dem 25. eine öffentl. Erklärung abgegeben?

Am 29.06.09 erschien im "Texas lawayer" ein Artikel, der so beginnt:
June 29, 2009 Texas lawyerHouston lawyer representing doctor with Michael Jackson when he died

On June 26, Houston criminal-defense attorney Edward Chernoff of Stradley, Chernoff & Alford began representing Dr. Conrad Murray, now the subject of international media attention since the doctor accompanied Michael Jackson to a Los Angeles hospital, where the pop star died on June 25.

Einen Links zum Artikel kann ich leider nicht mitliefern (weil ich damals noch nichte wußte, wie das technisch geht)

[lieschen00]

Neuigkeiten auf TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/04/michae...ath/#continued

"Dr. Murray Ordered a Boatload of Propofol for MJ

A pharmacist Dr. Murray used to order Propofol just testified the doctor order box after box of the drug in the two months before Michael Jackson's death.
Tim Lopez, a pharmacist at Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas, said beginning on April 6, 2009, Dr. Murray began ordering large quantities of Propofol. On that date, he ordered 10 single dose vials.
Murray, who had the drugs sent to his girlfriend's Santa Monica home where he was living, also ordered boxes of the drug on April 28 -- 4 boxes and each of the boxes had 10 100ml vials.
Later that month, Murray ordered 20 vials of midazolan and 20 vials of lorazepam.
On May 12, Murray ordered 4 boxes of Propofol, along with 2 trays of midazolan.
On June 10, Murray ordered 4 boxes of Propofol, and 2 20ml Propofol.
In all, Murray ordered 255 vials of Propofol in the two months -- including 130 vials of Propofol in 100ml doses and another 125 vials of Propofol in 20ml vials. "


Grobe Übersetzung:


"Dr. Murray bestellte eine "Schiffsladung" von Propofol für MJ

Ein Apotheker bezeugte, dass der Arzt eine Box nach der anderen mit Propofol in den zwei Monaten vor Michaels Tod bestellte.

Tim Lopez, ein Apotheker bei Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas, sagte, dass Murray ab dem 6. April 2009 große Mengen von Propofol bestellte. An diesem Tag bestellte er 10 Einzeldosis-Fläschchen.

Murray, der die Drogen zu seiner Freundin nach Santa Monica schickte, wo er wohnte, bestellte auch am 28. April 09 Kisten des Medikaments - 4 Kisten und in jeder Kiste waren 10 100ml Fläschchen.

Im selben Monat bestellte Murray 20 Fläschchen von Midazolan und 20 Fläschchen von Lorazepam.

Am 12. Mai bestellte Murray 4 Kisten mit Propofol, zusammen mit 2 Schalen Midazolan.

Am 10. Juni bestellte Murray 4 Kisten mit Propofol und 2 20ml Propofol-Fläschchen.

Insgesamt bestellte Murray 255 Fläschchen Propofol in den zwei Monaten - darunter 130 Ampullen Propofol in 100ml Dosen und weitere 125 Fläschchen Propofol in 20ml Fläschchen. "

[Biggi25]

Kanns mal jemand grob zusammenfassen????

[bvollmer13]

guten abend zusammen.habe gerade von den neuen beweisen gelesen.ich hoffe,dass es was wirklich wichtiges ist.
naja.wahrscheinlich hätte der richter es sonst auch nicht zugelassen.

bin schon wieder ganz zitterig.