A Los Angeles jury has found Dr. Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. After about nine hours of deliberation spread over two days, seven men and five women said Dr. Murray was criminally responsible for the role that the medication he administered played in Jackson’s 2009 death. Conrad used the surgical anesthetic propofol to treat the singer’s insomnia in what the prosecution called “a pharmaceutical experiment on Michael Jackson … an obscene experiment.” Murray faces up to four years in prison and could lose his medical license. His attorneys said the case should have been handled by the state medical board. “If it were anybody else but Michael Jackson, would this doctor be here today?” the defense argued. “He was just a little fish in a big, dirty pond.”
