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MICHAEL JACKSON’S FATHER:
Doctor Is Fall Guy
In A Murder Plot
February 09, 2010
(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- Michael Jackson's father is not buying into the doctor killed his son scenario. Joe Jackson, appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" program Monday night a few hours after sitting in the courtroom and listening to Dr. Conrad Murray plead not guilty to a single charge of involuntary manslaughter in his son's death last summer, said he suspects his son was murdered and that Dr. Conrad Murray is "just a fall guy" in a conspiracy.
On the broadcast Joe Jackson suggested it was much more than a doctor making a fatal judgment.
"To me, he's just a fall guy" Jackson said. "There's other people, I think, involved with this whole thing. But I think that he's interrogated -- he would come clean and tell everything he knows."
He claims Michael Jackson told his mother, as he was preparing for his comeback concerts in London, England last year, that he thought he would be killed.
"He was afraid to even do all of these shows, because he was afraid that he wouldn't get a chance to finish all of the show," Jackson said. "He couldn't do all those shows back-to-back. Even his kids say that he had told them that he would be murdered."
Murray turned himself in just before 4 p.m. at courthouse near Los Angeles International Airport and pleaded not guilty during a brief hearing. The judge refused to suspend Murray's medical license as a term of his bond, but he did order him not to use any anesthesia on patients.
The judge set bail at $75,000, despite arguments from the prosecutor that Murray is a flight risk and needs a higher bail. Murray posted bail and was released several hours later.
Prosecutors have charged Murray, Michael Jackson's most recent personal physician, with causing Jackson’s death "without malice" by acting “without due caution and circumspection."
The Los Angeles County coroner ruled Jackson's death a homicide, resulting from a combination of drugs, primarily propofol -- a powerful anesthesia -- and lorazepam.
Murray was with Jackson when he died on June 25, 2009.
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