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| Edited By: |Source: ANI |Updated: Oct 13, 2011, 12:11 PM IST
Dr Conrad Murray’s lawyers have dropped their claim that the singer swallowed a fatal overdose of the anaesthetic propofol.
Murray was accused of killing Michael Jackson, who died in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009.
The theory that Jackson swallowed the drug, while his personal physician Dr Murray was not looking, had been thought to be a key plank of the doctor’s defence.
However, after more than two weeks into his trial defence lawyer J Michael Flanagan told Los Angeles Superior Court that the argument would not be pursued.
He said a study, commissioned by the defence, had established that any effect from swallowing propofol would be trivial.
“We are not going to assert at any time during this trial that Michael Jackson orally administered propofol,” the Telegraph quoted Flanagan as saying.
But the development does not stop the defence from arguing that Jackson self-administered the drug intravenously, and that he was therefore still responsible for his own death.
