well, the defense will say what they like to say when you have a prosecutor like Walgren!! the guy did not realise how inciminating it would have been to Murray's case to highlight 'witnessed the arrest' statemnt until Stienberg was asked by Flanagan , guess what Walgren went out of his way to remind everyone before Stienberg answered that Murray probably left for much longer and MJ was dead beyond help when he came back , he was playing into the hands of the defense , thank God for Stienberg and Flanagan's stupidity !!!!! See Stienberrg testimony was great because for the first time someone with knowlegde told those jurors MJ could have been saved thus Murray's actions or lack of actions even if MJ self administered caused MJ's death . But if you relied on Walgren questioning you would never get to know that!!
The defense wants AT ANY COST everyone to believe Murray left because if he did not leave and a bolus injection killed Mike the defense had no argument whatsoever to use . When the defense is enough desperate to impeach Murray and say in CLEAR terms that Murray left for much more than 20 minutes , what that say about their priorities ? everything is tolerated but the idea that Murray was there when everything took place !!! You would think Walgren figured that out long time ago
I think you're putting too much stock in theory and speculation when the DA is in a win/win situation.
Thanks to Murray's own words they have him lock in a statement where the defense has to either call their own clinic a liar or someone who acted stupidly and self-serving when someone's life was in real danger. Defense wise, yes, it's better to say that Murray was out of the room for about 20 minutes and by the time Murray returned Michael has self-injected himself and died, so even if Murray did everything right it wouldn't had change anything.
The problem with the above is that Murray said in his own interview with the polices, win no prompt from the detectives, that Michael was alive and savable when he found him. The defense can't really say he was in denial when he took Michael's pulse with a monitor that gave him a reading which he remembered, checked his color, and said he was still warm. Murray also clearly said that he knew something was wrong because Michael's chest wasn't moving. If he had self-injected, he should has passed out immediately and shouldn't had been in the same position Murray left him.
As I wrote before, once the defense admits, which they did btw, that Murray lied about time he was gone and about the phone calls, it impeached Murray because the defense's plan is based on Murray's word alone. For example, he didn't have a written consent from Michael for the treatment he was given. The defense says it could had been done orally, but we only have Murray's word. The defense said that Murray was able to keep track with all the drugs he gave and the time, but that's Murray's word too. They said Michael begged for propofol, but once again that's Murray's word.
If he was willing to lie to police in an interview where he was supposed to be honest and wanted to set the record straight, why wouldn't he lie about the amount of drugs he gave Michael to make himself look more innocent? Why wouldn't he lie about Michael begging for drugs if it puts the blame on Michael who can't defend himself? Why wouldn't he lie about Michael being alive so he could hide drugs and cover himself? Murray has every reason to lie and he has been caught on record multiple times doing so for big and even small stuff like the bodyguards and the bathroom, the balloon pump, the death certificate, who ordered the autopsy, ect.
As I stated before, with all of this, why would anyone on that jury believe anything that Murray claimed? The only thing the DA has to do is hammer this point home on the closing statement and the defense really can't counter any of it.
