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Re: august 10th hearing

I think they are looking at open statements starting around the 26th.
 
Re: august 10th hearing

Kingofpop4ever3000 said:
I don't think Jason will hesitate to get up on that stand to drag Klien down because those two guys are on such bad terms right now. What a mess. This is all just my opinion.
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^^A good prosecution will impose an objection for relevancy every time Jason attempts to bring in Klien in his responses. The case is about Murray, and the prosecution has to show that no one is responsible other than Murray for them to win this case. I am sure they want to win, so they will know how to deal with Jason on the stand. He cannot bring in a lot of nonsense about Klien on the stand simply to get back at Kline. The way this judge has been acting so far, I do not think he will allow this type of conduct either.
 
Re: august 10th hearing

Any idea when the next hearing is. And jason is there to soley testify against klien.so i dont see how the pros can object if klien has already testfiyed for the pros
 
Re: august 10th hearing

Thanks i guess about jason and if they want to use him?
 
Re: august 10th hearing

@elusive yes I think so. I read somewhere that they were going to interview Jason end of this week, but I imagine any discussions will be in a closed court.
 
Re: august 10th hearing

Yeah defence said they were gonna try and interview either yest or today.i guess we will see if that has hap
 
Re: august 10th hearing

^^The defense is always asking for something and then when they get it realize they made an OOPS. Remember they wanted the TII footage to show Michael was not in good condition during his rehearsals, so they could get Murray off. OOPPSSS they found out that Michael was in good condition, so they say why does the prosecution want this even his bad days are good (I paraphrase). Now they want to hear from Jason. Let's see if they will put their thinking caps on and realize this is not a good witness. I see another OOPPSS coming.
 
August 15th hearing?

Reported that theres another hearing today. Presuming an update on jason and maybe other paitents records?
 
Re: August 15th hearing?

and scheduling issues and jury questionnaire
 
Re: August 15th hearing?

I can't find anything as yet, the news is all full of the simmons affair.
 
August 25th hearing

Conrad Murray's attorneys seek sequestered jury in Jackson trial

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Los Angeles County judge will hear arguments Thursday on a request by Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician accused in Michael Jackson's death, to sequester the jury once the trial begins next month.

Citing massive media coverage in the unrelated Casey Anthony murder trial this summer in Florida, attorneys for Murray said his case could draw even bigger publicity.
"There is reasonable expectation that Dr. Murray's trial will be the most publicized in history," his attorneys, Nareg Gourjian and Edward Chernoff, said in court papers.
The jury should be sequestered to ensure that Murray receives a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment, the attorneys said.
"This is an unusual trial," the attorneys said. "Without question, Michael Jackson is one of the most well-known figures in the world. His death, memorial service and every court appearance thereafter involving Dr. Murray has attracted unprecedented media coverage."
Prosecutors haven't filed any court papers in response to Murray's motion, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. Rather, Deputy District Attorneys David Walgren and Deborah Brazil will present their arguments in open court Thursday, Gibbons told CNN Wednesday.
Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, which occurred June 25, 2009, and was caused by an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, combined with other drugs, the Los Angeles coroner has ruled.
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During an unsuccessful attempt at jury selection earlier this year, only one potential juror out of several hundred questioned claimed to have heard nothing about the Murray case, and that potential juror, a woman, couldn't speak English, Murray's lawyers said.

At the time, attorneys didn't consider sequestering the jury. "Then along came Casey Anthony," Murray's attorneys said, citing the murder case as the impetus for their motion. Anthony was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but was convicted of four misdemeanor counts of lying to law enforcement.
The case, and the sensationalized media coverage, "demonstrated the danger that is created to a fair trial when basic information is managed for the purpose of entertainment and television ratings," Murray's attorneys said.
The attorneys singled out HLN television host Nancy Grace for "character assassination" against Anthony and "virtually nonstop on-air abuse of not only the defendant but of the jurors and defense attorneys involved."
All news organizations, including ABC News, Fox and InSession, benefited from the Anthony trial, Murray's attorneys said in court records. But some, such as HLN, "cleaned up": That network "drew its biggest total audience in its 29-year history with more than 5 million viewers," Murray's attorneys said.
Turner Broadcasting owns HLN, InSession and CNN, the attorneys pointed out in court papers.
"It is important to note that neither Ms. Anthony nor her daughter were public figures before her case," Murray's attorneys wrote.
The media is likely to air footage of admissible evidence in the Murray case, and jurors who aren't sequestered could also be contaminated by access to the "ubiquitous" Internet, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, the Murray attorneys said.
Partial sequestration, suggested earlier by the court, would be insufficient, the attorneys said.
While the court has said it will instruct jurors not to access television shows, the Internet or newspapers, "it is Pollyanna to expect the jury members to go home each workday and weekend for six weeks and entirely avoid the mass of exposure this trial will engender," Murray's attorneys wrote.
The cost of sequestration would be "comparatively minimal" to the cost of a retrial because of jury contamination, the attorneys said.
Legal experts and defense attorneys not related to the Murray case offered differing opinions to CNN on the efficacy of sequestering a jury.
"The defense wants to sequester the jury because it has seen that sequestered juries vote not guilty," said Marcia Clark, the former prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, another heavily publicized case in which the jury was sequestered. "I don't really think there's any need to sequester the jury. To the extent that people know about this case, know about Michael Jackson or Conrad Murray, it's over. It's already been done. It'd be like closing the barn doors after the horse is out."
Ellyn Garofalo, the attorney who represented Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who was acquitted on charges of conspiring to keep Anna Nicole Smith addicted to prescription drugs, said that the usefulness of sequestering a jury "is a really tough question."
"I think there is good reason to sequester a jury," Garofalo said. "I also tend to think -- and this is more of a personal opinion -- that a sequestered jury is not a happy jury and may be more anxious to get through the testimony than a jury that is not sequestered."
Richard Gabriel, a jury consultant on the Simpson and Casey Anthony cases, said sequestering a jury is stressful and expensive.
"The difficulty is, I don't think a judge has ever gone as far to say during this trial, please do not use the Internet, period. Just like they say, don't watch television during the trial, they say if you see something about the case, please ignore that news item," Gabriel said.
"As a practical matter I think it will be difficult, partly because the county of Los Angeles has no money to do that. It is very, very expensive," Gabriel said. "It puts a pretty big strain on a jury because you are taking them out of a familiar setting and you are putting them into obviously a highly pressurized setting that basically says you are in this trial 24-7 for the length of the trial."

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/25/california.murray.case/index.html?section=cnn_latest
 
Re: August 25th hearing

Thanks, now let's see what happens today. The judge did say before that the county did not have the money to do that.
 
Re: August 25th hearing

Thanks for the article. Lets wait for the judge's decision
 
Re: August 25th hearing

The defence will make the request today but I don't know if the Judge will make a decission today.
 
Re: August 25th hearing

I think he will rule today as the request was already filed
 
Re: August 25th hearing

Sorry, elusive is right, it's the arguments he will hear today.
 
Re: August 25th hearing

Judge: No Sequestering Jackson Manslaughter Jury

Thursday, August 25, 2011
(08-25) 10:43 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) --
Jurors in the upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial of a doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death will not be sequestered, a judge ruled Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said it was not a close call about whether he thought jurors hearing the case should be kept from their daily lives during the four- to six-week trial.

Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray had argued that sequestration is the only way to ensure a fair trial. Attorney Ed Chernoff said that if a case involving the death of the King of Pop didn't justify sequestration, then there likely isn't another case in which it's warranted.

Defense attorneys have cited widespread media coverage of the case and the likelihood that TV commentators such as Nancy Grace will cover the trial daily as reasons the jury should be protected.

Pastor said he trusted jurors to heed his admonitions about reading or listening to news reports about the case. He said cost did not factor into his decision, although he said one estimate of the cost of sequestering jurors during the trial was more than $500,000.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Sept. 8 and opening statements are slated for Sept. 27.

Murray faces four years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Authorities have accused him of administering a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol and other sedatives in the bedroom of Jackson's rented mansion on June 25, 2009.

Pastor has noted that a jury hasn't been sequestered in Los Angeles since the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/25/national/a103745D51.DTL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/25/national/a103745D51.DTL
 
Re: August 25th hearing

CNNLADavid David Daniel
Judge denies defense request to sequester jury in trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician accused in #MichaelJackson death

Conrad Murray trial judge also rejects defense request to remove TV cameras in the courtroom during certain testimony

I like this judge on the Conrad Murray trial: "Frequently talking heads are talking through other body parts than their heads."

CNNLADavid David Daniel
Attys expect Conrad Murray trial to last 4-5 weeks (30 court days); judge thinks 20-25 days. Opening statements Sept. 27.
19 minutes ago


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Re: August 25th hearing

Time lenght is getting shorter and shorter.i wanna see the witness list
 
Re: August 25th hearing

And know what the no cameras testimony is
 
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