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August 23, 2010 Doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death returns to courtPosted: 01:30 PM ET
Monday's hearing is expected to be quick. It will set a date for the preliminary hearing in the involuntary manslaughter case against Murray, his lawyer said. The judge has indicated the preliminary hearing will be in October and is expected to last more than a week. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was from an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthesia used to put surgical patients to sleep. Murray, hired as Jackson's personal doctor while the singer rehearsed for his comeback concerts, admits giving him propofol as a sleep aid. But Murray's lawyer said the amount was much smaller than what was found in Jackson's body during the autopsy. "The fact [of the way] that he died was a mystery a year ago, and still is," Houston attorney Ed Chernoff told CNN in an exclusive interview recently. Members of Jackson's family have attended each hearing since Murray's arrest in February. When brother Jermaine Jackson left the last hearing in June, he indicated some of them were not satisfied with the case against Murray. "Dr. Murray's the fall guy," Jermaine Jackson said after the hearing. "This is bulls**t." Filed under: Michael Jackson
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