Michael Jackson could not have caused his own death by self-administering a powerful sedative, the medic who carried out his autopsy said on Tuesday, as a graphic photo of the star's corpse was released.
Christopher Rogers, who examined the “King of Pop’s” body after his June 2009 death, said it was more likely that Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray mistakenly gave him too much of the drug propofol to try to help him sleep.
“The circumstances from my point of view do not support self-administration of propofol,” Rogers told the Los Angeles court as Murray's manslaughter trial entered its third week.
Murray is accused of involuntary mansla-ughter by giving Jackson an overdose of propofol.
His lawyers claim Jackson was a desperate addict who gave himself a fatal extra dose while Murray was out of the room.