Coroner: Jackson Murder Death, Sleep, AIDS has caused

LOS ANGELES - After breakfast, Michael Jackson has died, his personal physician said he gave a series of sedatives help to sleep, and when this did not work, he received the powerful anesthetic propofol. Dr. Conrad Murray, a cardiologist who was in Las Vegas twice questioned by police, was not charged with any crime, but it is the goal of this term police investigation for manslaughter. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office announced Friday in an eagerly awaited decision that Jackson's death was a murder caused mainly by propofol and other sedatives increase the likelihood that charges against Murray. In a short video on YouTube earlier this month, Murray said: "I have the truth and the faith of the truth will prevail." Except for the video, Murray has not mentioned publicly since Jackson, 50, died 25 June. Solicitor Murray, Edward Chernoff, repeated his assertion that nothing was Murray Jackson "must have" killed. The examining office determines the cause of the death of Jackson "acute intoxication propofol. Lorazepam, a sedative sold under other brand names Ativan, contributed to the death. Drugs in the system of Jackson have been found, the sedative midazolam and diazepam, lidocaine and analgesic stimulant ephedrine. Several search warrants in Murray and was home to companies in Las Vegas and Houston saw the evidence describing how he was propofol, which killed Jackson. Jackson's interactions with at least six other doctors have also taken a closer look. is also the California Attorney General Jerry Brown, has called for an independent investigation into several doctors to life. In the past seven years, only a handful of doctors have been convicted of manslaughter, which would most of their patients with the use of painkillers. To win a conviction, Prosecutors must show that Murray has acted recklessly and negligently. Determination of Killing by the investigating judge, it is likely there will be criminal charges filed, but not guaranteed. "This decision is not binding on the prosecutor," said Steve Cron, a defense lawyer in criminal and associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Pepperdine University. "But it is a piece of the puzzle head that leads to the conclusion that someone be prosecuted for his death." Determination of the murder coroner confirmed that the first Monday, the Associated Press reported, citing an anonymous law enforcement. The Coroner 's transmission has not made the full autopsy report Friday, citing Jackson's received from the authorities to keep the security in Los Angeles applied for investigating the case. The coroner also refused to give a brief explanation of the nature and cause of death comment. Attorney Murray said he was disappointed by the complete autopsy report would not be released. Otherwise, it is was impossible to independent advice on the importance of the various drug discovery search. "Let the toxicology report, the thing together. Sunlight is the best disinfectant," said Chernoff. "The smell of political maneuvers." It is not clear when the full report published in May. The coroner said the hold would remain secure until the investigation is wrapped up. The Los Angeles Police Department and the Office of the Prosecutor said that she did not know when it would be. When set to help Michael Jackson's promoter, AEG Live Murray's aging pop star adjusting to a series of concerts in London again, s the doctor "had not paid the mortgage on his home country club in 2009, according to court records, he merited a sum of at least $ 680,000 in outstanding judgments against him and his medical practice, student loans, and credit cards for kids. For Murray, the $ 150,000 - a-month job was a pause, he desperately needs. Jackson met Murray i s Las Vegas, where he moved after a stint abroad in the following is the h in 2005, the exemption on pedophilia charges, and where indigenous Caribbean clinic. According to court documents, investigators said Murray, more than six hours, it Jackson was injected with two doses each of lorazepam and midazolam. Finally, at 10.40, I told Murray he had succumbed to requests from Jackson and administered propofol, said he had a drug Murray Jackson every night for six weeks. He said he had diluted propofol with lidocaine. Propofol is often used so that the patient unconscious for surgery. It should be administered only by the anesthesia professionals in medical facilities and because of their activities requires that patients be carefully monitored at all times. Use of propofol as an agent of severe sleep medical guidelines violated. Medical experts said that increasing the drug found in the system of Jackson each other effects. "Instead of one plus one equals two, one plus one equals three," said Lee Cantrell, a toxicologist and director of the San Francisco division of California Poison Control System. A search warrant affidavit unsealed this week in Houston, provides a detailed account of what Murray told the detectives told them. The doctor said it was Jackson for the treatment of insomnia for about six weeks with 50 mg propofol every night using an intravenous infusion, said the affidavit. Murray Jackson said he had always with the anesthetic, which will in hospitals and other medical contexts are used addictive anxiety, so that the 25 mg dose had to be reduced and added to intensify the sedative midazolam and lorazepam. This test is very small and of itself it is very unlikely that he killed him. But with the other drugs, there was an "effect of benzodiazepines," according to the coroner, and it was deadly. Dr. David Zvara, chairman of anesthesia at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said It is difficult to determine what i is a lethal dose of propofol to a person who receives other sedatives. "It's hard to be a level because of how they act in synergy and share," he said. After the sedative lorazepam as: "Even a small dose of propofol can have a dramatic impact." Jackson had many medical procedures that, in the years and a long history with various drugs. After his death, said three members of the health professions Jackson asked for propofol this spring. All refused. One, a nurse named Cherilyn Lee, told him that Jackson said he wanted to, how the drug left him stunned and quickly for a few hours sleep longer than he could, of course. The doctors were surprised by the words of the coroner ephedrine, once sold as the controversial diet drug ephedra, and now by the Federal Food and Drug Administration banned, although the drug may be used for resuscitation. Zvara said it was unlikely that the forces responding to the home of Jackson had been in use for the drug epinephrine, is otherwise known as adrenaline, favors. In the meantime, a lawyer for Dr. David Adams, said an anesthesiologist in an affidavit for a search warrant, "said Murray, because of their encounter with Jackson was wrong. Papers state detectives Murray said he was there when Adam Jackson with propofol in a permanent cosmetologist in March or April sedated. Adams' attorney, Liborius Agwara, said his client spoke with Murray on the phone and met him once in person not to perform during a meeting with Jackson in the Murray office of Las Vegas in March. Adam, or witnesses, medical procedures said at the hearing, the lawyer. Adams said in Jackson Agwara propofol administered four times in 2008 to assist a dentist. ___ Associated Press reporter Alicia Chang in Los Angeles and Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas, AP Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee and AP researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.