Conrad Murray's Trial Gets Shady

Conrad Murray is in some mighty deep doo-doo.  The death of Michael Jackson won't disappear off our radar for decades, and he is smack in the middle of it.  There has been murmurs of the depth of his involvement from the very beginning.  The trial has been a slam dunk from the beginning, with the evidence coming out at every turn to make him look even more guilty than suspected.  But as we all know, not all evidence is created equal.

However, a few tidbits sort of bother me.  Please don't think I'm saying Murray is innocent.  At best, he was incredibly negligent.  Today I read that there was a huge buzz because a paramedic said he could have saved Michael if 911 had been called immediately.  I'm sorry, but he couldn't possibly know that. The extent of damage that had been done by long-term drug abuse would not allow anyone to say that for a certainty.  There has been zero mention of any response from Murray's lawyer.  I have to wonder if he was asleep.

The hard evidence is moderate.  Witnesses seem to all say Murray was hiding and collecting vials.  I just have to wonder how that worked out.  Were there so many people on the spot, or were there that many vials?  It sounds to me like he either had a barrel of vials or a lot of convenient witnesses are telling the same story.  It seems a little neat.  Either Murray is so guilty that the radiation of guilt would light up a room, or there is a whole lot of talk and just a little hard proof.  I realize we aren't seeing the entire picture,  but there seems to be a lot of wiggle room for reasonable doubt.  Of course, it could also be that the leaks and reporting are one-sided.  If not, Murray's only hope is one hell of a poisoned tree.

He is a doctor, and he should have known better on a million levels.  It seems clear that his very wealthy client paid him to get the drugs he wanted and the soothing he craved.  I'm just a little surprised that there is so much reliance on witnesses and theory, and I wonder what kind of fight he is putting up.