Murray is not eligible for early release electronic monitoring or house arrest, which some county prisoners get under a federal court order aimed at reducing jail overcrowding, Whitmore said. Murray lawyer not surprised by sentence Prosecution reacts to Murray sentence Drew looks at Murray judge's actions. Drew looks at Murray judge's actions Members of Jackson's family, who sat in court for Tuesday's sentencing, appeared pleased with the judge's decision to ignore defense pleas for leniency.
A statement from the family, read in court by a lawyer, said they were "not here to seek revenge," but they wanted a sentence that "reminds physicians that they cannot sell their services to the highest bidder and cast aside their Hippocratic oath to do no harm. It included a message to the judge from Jackson's three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket. Defense lawyer Ed Chernoff acknowledged that it was unlikely Pastor would accept probation for Murray, but he still made a case for community service over time behind bars.
Even without jail time, Chernoff said, he will suffer the rest of his life because of the loss of his medical career and the stigma of the conviction. Deputy District Attorney David Walgren, arguing for the maximum four years in jail, said Murray was "playing Russian roulette with Michael Jackson's life every single night," by using the surgical anesthetic propofol to put him to sleep in "a reckless, obscene manner.
Murray showed his lack of remorse or acceptance of his personal responsibility in an interview nine days before he was found guilty, Walgren said. Pastor delivered a minute explanation of why he was sentencing Murray to the maximum jail time, even though the doctor was technically eligible for probation. Murray's "faux documentary" made it appear he was just a "bystander" in Jackson's death who was "entrapped" and "betrayed" by his patient, Pastor said.
Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Jackson in November , and was sentenced to four years in prison. He served about two years at a Los Angeles County jail before being released in October Conrad Robert Murray was born on February 19, , in St.
Andrews, Grenada. The man who would become embroiled in the controversy surrounding the death of the "King of Pop" in June did not come from money. With his mother Milta spending most of her time in Trinidad and Tobago in search of better paying work, Murray lived with his maternal grandparents, two Grenadian farmers. His fractured family life was compounded by the total absence of his father, Rawle Andrews, a Houston area physician who, up until his death in , focused his career on offering medical services to the poor.
Murray didn't meet his dad until he was At the age of seven, Murray relocated to Trinidad and Tobago to live with his mother, where he became a citizen and finished high school. Like Milta, Murray was determined to make a better life for himself, demonstrating at an early age a propensity to work hard.
After high school he volunteered as an elementary school teacher in Trinidad, an experience he followed with work as a customs clerk and an insurance underwriter in order to pay for his college education. Murray also wasn't afraid to take advantage of an opportunity. At the age of 19 he bought his first house, then later sold it for a decent profit to support his university tuition in the United States. In , two years after first visiting Houston and getting a chance to introduce himself to his father, Conrad Murray returned to Texas to enroll at Texas Southern University, where in just three years he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in pre-medicine and biological sciences.
Other training stints followed; he studied at the University of Arizona on a Cardiology Fellowship and landed back in California, where he eventually worked as the associate director for the interventional cardiology fellowship-training program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.
In , Murray left California for a second time and struck out on his own, opening up a private practice in Las Vegas. Locating his office just east of the strip, Murray — again taking a cue from his father — aimed to serve not just the city's wealthy, but its underserved as well. In , Murray expanded his scope and returned to the city where his father had made a name for himself to open the Acres Homes Heart and Vascular Institute.
Murray and that clinic in this community," Houston patient Ruby Mosley told People magazine. Those who've had financial dealings with the doctor, however, might feel otherwise.
Unpaid debts, lawsuits and tax liens have followed Dr. Murray's life. In fact, it was Dr. Murray's debt situation that set the stage for his working relationship with Jackson. The two men had first met in when the singer, a frequent Vegas visitor, had contacted Dr.
Murray about treating one of his children for an unknown medical situation. The page ruling included lengthy recitations of the evidence against Murray, who was convicted in of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol in June while the singer was preparing for a series of comeback concerts.
The six-week trial focused on Murray's care of Jackson, including nightly doses of propofol to help the entertainer sleep. The appeal court determined that superior court judge Michael Pastor was within his right to impose the maximum sentence of four years. Murray's "callous disregard for Mr Jackson's health and safety was shown throughout the trial, from the manner in which he administered a number of dangerous drugs to Mr Jackson without the appropriate medical equipment, precautions or personnel in place, and to the manner in which he left Mr Jackson unattended", the opinion states.
The former physician was released from jail in October due to a change in California law requiring nonviolent offenders to serve their sentences in county jails and as a result of credits for good behaviour. In his appeal, Murray argued that the judge who oversaw the case improperly excluded jurors from hearing key evidence and should have sequestered jurors.
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