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by Tory Shepherd

08 Nov 09:00am

Filed under: Celebrity, Conrad Murray, Justice, Medicine, Michael Jackson

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So the crowd cheers, euphoric, as the ‘guilty’ judgement of Dr Conrad Murray is read out.

Pic: AP

Michael Jackson’s fans will now be able to remember him untainted – they will forget that he was a drug abuser, a consummate weirdo, they will forget the grim and disturbing pictures of his deathbed. He will be again the child star turned genius. In death, he will be perfect.

Meanwhile, the cardiologist who pumped him full of powerful drugs, who – the jury heard – committed numerous acts of negligence not big enough to have him found guilty of gross negligence, will have an uncertain fate in gaol.

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Auth says:

09:06am | 08/02/12

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shep says:

06:27pm | 09/11/11

I agree with Bev .They need to go back and prosecute the pharmacists that sold him the gallons of this drug as well as the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for all these other drugs because I am a fan but M J had problems with drugs way before this… Read more »

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