AP: No charges filed in probe of other Jackson doctors

[StacyJ]

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By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Greg Risling, Associated Press Writer – 11 mins ago
LOS ANGELES – State investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson have decided not to file charges against seven doctors who treated him, authorities said Wednesday.

The doctors were part of an investigation by state Attorney General Jerry Brown's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, spokeswoman Christine Gasparac said.

One doctor whose name was not released has been referred to the California Medical Board for prescribing drugs to a Jackson alias, she said.

Candis Cohen, a board spokeswoman, declined to confirm the action, saying complaints and investigations were not public record.

Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, has pleaded not guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death. Authorities say Murray provided Jackson with a mix of sedatives, including a powerful anesthetic that killed him.

Los Angeles police who investigated the death had asked state and federal investigators to look into the prescribing practices of doctors who previously treated the 50-year-old pop star.

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has also stopped investigating the actions of any other Jackson doctors, agency spokeswoman Sarah Pullen said.

The state investigation included the search of a prescription drug database that tracks doctors who prescribe controlled substances. The database also monitors the quantity and recipients of those drugs.

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AP Writer Thomas Watkins contributed to this report

[bluetopez]

By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Greg Risling, Associated Press Writer – 59 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – State investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson have decided not to file charges against seven doctors who treated him, authorities said Wednesday.

The doctors were part of an investigation by state Attorney General Jerry Brown's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, spokeswoman Christine Gasparac said.

One doctor whose name was not released has been referred to the California Medical Board for prescribing drugs to a Jackson alias, she said.

Candis Cohen, a board spokeswoman, declined to confirm the action, saying complaints and investigations were not public record.

Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, has pleaded not guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death. Authorities say Murray provided Jackson with a mix of sedatives, including a powerful anesthetic that killed him.

Murray was not among the seven doctors involved in the state investigation.

Los Angeles police who investigated the death had asked state and federal investigators to look into the prescribing practices of doctors who previously treated the 50-year-old pop star.

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has also stopped investigating the actions of any other Jackson doctors, agency spokeswoman Sarah Pullen said.

"I am very disappointed," said attorney Brian Oxman, who represents Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson in a wrongful death lawsuit against Murray. "The misuse of medications by Michael Jackson in the last years of his life was excessive and to fail to bring that to the public eye is ignoring reality."

The state investigation included the search of a prescription drug database that tracks doctors who prescribe controlled substances. The database also monitors the quantity and recipients of those drugs.

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AP Writer Thomas Watkins and AP Entertainment Writer Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.

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[max000]

The media lies that MJ was getting pills from every freaking DR in CA and beyond. No doubt the media will sweep this news under the rug.

BRIAN OXMAN relentlessly pushing the JACKSONS agenda that MJ was a massive abuser of drugs.

[8701girl]

I think the other doctors should get charged for somethin.. i dont know..

[Butterfly26]

Im so confused and that is an understatement. Why on earth is Braindead Oxymoron still representing any Jackson for that matter? WTH?

[marc_vivien]

Oxman is really a scumbag.


Your theory is BS

[144,000]

Brian Oxman, you lying bastard. MJ did NOT abuse drugs. as for everything else..hey..why would i be surprised? the government doesn't care about Michael neither does the AP for that matter.

[CherubimII]

Originally Posted by marc_vivien

Oxman is really a scumbag.
Your theory is BS

I agree with you.

[8701girl]

[QUOTE=Butterfly26;2907609] Braindead Oxymoron


LOL

[Justthefacts]

Just shows that Michael was not doctor shopping was not an addict in denial and was like his autopsy said taken care of himself. And this also takes a defence away from Murray. And I hope certain members of Michael's family pay attention to this. And shut the @#$% up Oxbrain

[yaazgurl]

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

Just shows that Michael was not doctor shopping was not an addict in denial and was like his autopsy said taken care of himself. And this also takes a defence away from Murray. And I hope certain members of Michael's family pay attention to this. And shut the @#$% up Oxbrain

I agree with this.

[bluetopez]

Well everybody pretty much saying what I am thinking and that's the reason why I posted the article! That it put's a whole in the theory that he was a pill popper and after all these doctors!

[CherubimII]

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

Just shows that Michael was not doctor shopping was not an addict in denial and was like his autopsy said taken care of himself. And this also takes a defence away from Murray. And I hope certain members of Michael's family pay attention to this. And shut the @#$% up Oxbrain

Amen.

[tofdel1]

I'm sure this will not make any breaking news headlines. At least it puts the focus back on Murray.

[marc_vivien]

Seven of Michael Jackson doctors will not face criminal charges
By Alan Duke, CNN
July 29, 2010 -- Updated 0409 GMT (1209 HKT)

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A doctor who prescribed drugs to Michael Jackson using a fake name shortly before the singer's death could be disciplined by the California medical board, the state attorney general's office said.

None of the seven doctors and one nurse investigated by the state will face criminal prosecution, according to Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who was Jackson's personal physician when he died a year ago, was not part of the probe, Gasparac said. Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter earlier this year in the entertainer's death.

The Los Angeles Police Department asked the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement to investigate the prescription practices of seven doctors and a nurse, she said.
"After reviewing hundreds of pages of records and documents obtained from the medical practitioners, the attorney general's office has referred one doctor, who wrote prescriptions to an alias known to have been used by Jackson, to the California medical board for further review," she said.

Investigators did not find sufficient evidence to recommend criminal prosecution of any of the medical practitioners, she said.

She would not identify the doctor referred to the medical board for consideration of administrative action or the others who were cleared.

State drug agents executed search warrants at several doctors' offices last summer and at least one pharmacy.

Agents spent several hours inside the Mickey Fine Pharmacy just below the Beverly Hills practice of Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson's dermatologist.

Investigators also visited Klein's office, where Jackson was seen several times in the weeks before his June 25, 2009 death.

Klein told CNN last year that he never prescribed dangerous drugs to the singer.

Searches of Jackson's rented mansion revealed a long list of prescription drugs in his bedroom after his death, according to court documents and the autopsy report.
The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that Jackson's death was from an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthesia used to put surgical patients to sleep.

A consultant's report included in the autopsy said the level of lorazepam, a powerful anti-anxiety agent found in Jackson's body "would have accentuated the respiratory and cardiovascular depression from propofol."

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