Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray sentenced to four years for involuntary manslaughter

Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson’s death, was jailed for four years with a judge describing him as a “disgrace to the medical profession”. 

 

Handing down the maximum sentence for a charge of involuntary manlaughter Judge Michael Pastor delivered an excoriating assessment of Murray, saying he had engaged in a “horrible cycle of medicine” and committed a “horrffic violation of trust.”

The judge said: “He engaged in money for medicine madness that is not to going to be tolerated by me. This was an unacceptable, egregious series of departures from the accepted standard of care. An honourable profession bears the scourge, the blot of what happened here.

“There are those who feel Dr Murray is a saint, there are those who feel Dr Murray is the devil. He is neither. He is a human being and he stands convicted of the death of another human being.”

The judge said Dr Murray had “violated his own obligations for money, fame, prestige and whatever else may have occurred.”

He said the doctor had ordered propofol, the powerful anaesthetic that killed Jackson, in “staggering and unprecented quatities,” displayed a "longstanding failure of character” and told “unconscionable lies” to paramedics who tried to save the singer.