Michael Jackson's doctor charged over pop singer's drugs death
Conrad Murray, who has been charged in relation to Michael Jackson's death. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles yesterday in relation to the singer's death last year from a cocktail of drugs.
Murray, aged 57, pleaded not guilty just hours after being charged, and was released on bail of $75,000 (£48,000), and is due to reappear before the court on 5 April. The charge carries a jail term of four years.
The doctor has been under investigation almost since the singer's body was found at his home in Los Angeles in June last year.
Some Jackson fans shouted "murderer" as Murray entered the courthouse.
The doctor was appointed by Jackson appointed the doctor in May on a promise of $150,000 a month to help the singer through a series of comeback shows in London. Murray prescribed drugs to help the singer sleep, but insists there was nothing illegal in this.
The single charge against him claims he administered the powerful general anaesthetic propofol and two other sedatives "without due caution and circumspection" and "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson".
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