Defence lawyers are seeking urgent tests of two syringes and an IV bag found in Michael Jackson’s mansion, arguing that the evidence in the manslaughter case against the singer’s doctor is drying up and deteriorating.
According to a transcript of a 40-minute closed session with a judge obtained on Wednesday, attorneys for Dr Conrad Murray said liquids in one of the syringes had already dried up and was now “salt.”
Quantities of substances in the syringes and IV bag could be crucial to explaining how the singer died, the lawyers said at the Tuesday hearing.
Dr Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Authorities contend he administered a lethal dose of sedatives, including the anaesthetic propofol, to Jackson in the bedroom of his rented mansion in June 2009.
Officials tested what was in the items and found traces of propofol and lidocaine, according to the transcript. but the amounts of the substances were not determined, and defence attorneys contend that may be significant in the case expected to hinge on technical and scientific data.
Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor declined to order testing on the substances on Tuesday because he wanted defence attorneys to confer further with prosecutors.
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