LaToya, wept quietly after the verdict was read. "Michael was looking over us," LaToya said on the way out of the courtroom. Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, told reports she was confident the trial’s outcome would be a guilty verdict.
Murray sat stone-faced during the verdict and was handcuffed and taken into custody. He appeared calm as officials led him out of the courtroom. There was a shriek in the courtroom when the verdict was read, and the crowd erupted outside the courthouse.
The jury deliberated almost nine hours before arriving at the decision. Murray, 58, faces a sentence of up to four years in prison and could also lose his medical license. Murray’s attorneys left the courtroom without commenting.
Dr. Murray was convicted on Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star. This decision followed overwhelming evidences from the late singer's domestic staff and relevant medical records.
Jackson died on June 25, 2009. The complete story of his death came to the open during the six-week trial. It was the tale of a tormented legend on the brink of what might have been his greatest triumph with one impediment standing in his way — extreme insomnia.
In Las Vegas, a former Murray patient and current friend, Donna DiGiacomo, sobbed and said she believed the jury was under "overwhelming pressure to convict [him]"... The final verdict comes up late November.
Addition report by ThePunch.
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