Michael Jackson's Death Ruled a Homicide

Posted by Michael Dance

Unfortunately, that isn't a joke. From Entertainment Weekly:

The Los Angeles coroner’s office has ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide, the Associated Press reports. The pop star had “lethal levels” of the surgical anesthetic propofol in his system, along with two other narcotics, when he died on June 25, an unnamed source told the AP. Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who was present at the time of the singer’s death, told officials he administered 25 to 50 mg of propofol to Jackson nightly, possibly for as long as six weeks, as treatment for insomnia. Search warrants executed at the home Jackson rented turned up large quantities of propofol, as well as several other sedatives. The coroner’s findings could lead to charges against the doctor in Jackson’s death.

Sounds like an involuntary manslaughter conviction. Then again, I'm not a lawyer, and am basing that only on my experiences of watching hours and hours of Law & Order reruns.

Still, I can't bring myself to care. I'm sick of the constant talk, I'm sick of all the bandwagon jumpers who pretended they were still huge fans, I'm sick of the media giving this guy more attention than stuff like the Iranian election or, you know, good people who died that didn't like sleeping in the same bed with little boys.

Right after Jackson died, my dad -- who doesn't pay attention to celebrities to the point where he asked my mom after watching Ocean's 11 which one was George Clooney and which one was Brad Pitt -- accurately predicted the entire trajectory. I was complaining about how Jackson had taken over the news cycle entirely, and my dad just chuckled a bit, sighed, then said: "yep, and you know, as soon as it dies down you'll start hearing the conspiracy theories and murder claims."

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