Dr. Conrad Murray

The L.A. County District Attorney wants the judge in the Michael Jackson case to ensure that irrelevant character attacks on the late music icon are inadmissible.

As we know, Dr. Conrad Murray's defense team is throwing everything it can against the wall in hopes that something sticks that will create reasonable doubt.

It's a fine line. His theory that Michael Jackson killed himself with a lethal dose of Propofol is at least rooted in events that may have happened June 25, 2009.

Making Jackson look like an out-of-control whack job, however?

The D.A. wants non-pertinent assertions and accounts of Michael's behavior left out of the case. Specifically, evidence involving Michael and the Nation of Islam.

D.A. Steve Cooley says: "Evidence concerning the Nation of Islam is irrelevant [and] does not relate to the defendant's participation in Michael Jackson's death."

Cooley's move is a preemptive strike to keep the defense from trying to make Michael Jackson look like a weirdo and an unsympathetic character in general.

Dr. Conrad Murray "sounded tired and he was like I'm gonna get some sleep whatever" just a few hours before Michael Jackson died, a stripper says.

Michelle Bella, one of three women Murray was juggling at the time, met MJ's personal doc at the Spearmint Rhino gentleman's club in Vegas in '08.

Bella told detectives that on June 25, 2009, Dr. Murray left a message on her phone at about 8:30 a.m. It sounds like the physician was just beat.

Bella told cops Murray had mentioned Jackson to her before and said:

"I mean his schedule was obviously, you know ... I know that he was like up all hours because of his work so when - so when he called, you know, he sounded tired and he was like I'm gonna get some sleep or whatever."

A long-held theory among law enforcement is that Dr. Murray may have actually fallen asleep during the time the drug [Propofol] was administered to MJ and may have awakened to find Jackson already dead from heart failure.

It may make his claim that Michael Jackson killed himself even more dubious.

On an unrelated note, you gotta read how Conrad met Michelle:

If you've followed the Michael Jackson case and noted that Dr. Conrad Murray had dealings with several different women the day MJ died, that's not an error.

Dr. Murray crossed a professional line in treating Michael based on his involvement with three women, according to new documents filed by prosecutors.

According to the documents, Dr. Murray was on the phone with a cocktail waitress prosecutors say was his girlfriend minutes before the 911 call was made.

Prosecutors say this woman in question, Sade Anding, was in Houston where she met Murray while working as a cocktail waitress. Why was he calling her?

Who the heck knows, but officials say the call proves Murray was paying attention to his girlfriend, and not MJ, during the critical period before MJ's death.

Moreover, prosecutors want to admit into evidence a $500 check that Dr. Murray wrote to Sade Anding "after the two came back from a social outing."

Murray allegedly had communications with two other women that day, too:

Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyers and the prosecutors in the upcoming Michael Jackson manslaughter trial want to know all sorts of things about potential jurors.

A 30-page long questionnaire with 117 questions asks everything from whether individuals read celebrity gossip blogs to whether they're insomniacs.

Some of the many highlights of the exhaustive list include:

• What Internet sites or celebrity blogs if any, do you visit on a regular basis?
• Have you posted any blogs concerning Michael Jackson or Conrad Murray?
• Have you or anyone close to you ever worked in any aspect of the media?

Then there are these six questions in which prospective jurors must select either Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree or No Opinion ...

The feeling may not be reciprocal here, but that's nice at least.

While out at The Grove in Los Angeles yesterday, a photographer caught up with Dr. Conrad Murray, who is awaiting involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Michael Jackson, and asked about the late King of Pop's offspring.

His response: "That's my children, I love them. I love them."

Dr. Conrad Murray: Man on the Street

And this concludes your Dr. Conrad Murray update this week. It's been fun. We'll see if jurors show him similar love when his trial kicks off in late April.

Jury selection gets underway this week in the manslaughter case involving Michael Jackson's death, and Dr. Conrad Murray is targeting responsible people.

What we mean by that is 12 men and/or women who take responsibility for their actions. Reading between the lines a bit - less likely to scapegoat others.

A big part of Dr. Murray's defense is that Michael was a hard-core addict who hid his dependence, thus absolving Murray of blame for what happened.

Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter.

One of the more revealing questionnaire items: "Do you believe patients have the responsibility to tell their doctors about their complete past and current social behaviors, including use of drugs, alcohol and prescription medications?"

Murray may also contend that Jackson killed himself with the final, lethal dose of Propofol, but it's interesting that he's playing up MJ's past as well.

Other questions focus on what people think of the case:

Charged with involuntary manslaughter, Dr. Conrad Murray will likely argue that Michael Jackson killed himself with a lethal dose of Propofol.

Even if that were true (and it's a stretch), it still wouldn't get Murray off the hook. The treatment he gave MJ was suspect for myriad reasons.

To that end, Murray's lawyers just filed documents pointing fingers at none other than Dr. Arnold Klein - Jackson's longtime doctor and friend.

Murray claims that Klein addicted Jackson to Demerol and other powerful narcotics. It's part of his plan to establish Michael as a lost cause physically.

Murray's legal team claims Klein fueled MJ's addiction as recently as 2009 by giving him scores of Demerol injections in the months prior to his death.

He may have a point there. In the months before Jackson died, Dr. Arnold Klein gave Jackson 51 Demerol injections. But is it relevant to the case?

The docs claim it is for this reason: "Due to Mr. Klein's actions, Mr. Jackson became physiologically and psychologically dependent on Demerol."

Murray's team says Dr. Arnold Klein, who is also the rumored biological father of MJ's kids Paris and Prince, "is a relevant, highly material witness."

Dr. Conrad Murray ...

In a major development in the Michael Jackson case, lawyers for Dr. Conrad Murray want to see prints from broken syringe found in the late icon's bedroom.

Sources say they think this item may prove Michael Jackson killed himself, a long-held defense theory that has been floated but not aggressively pursued until now.

Dr. Murray's lawyers are looking to obtain a first generation fingerprint to determine who was handling it. Murray is adamant that he never touched the thing.

Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in MJ's June 25, 2009 death.

Whether he injected or even chugged Propofol, the defense believes MJ suffered a massive overdose of the anesthetic while Murray was out of the room.

Defense sources insist that there were only two people in the room at the time (they likely tried to pursue the missing surveillance tape to back this up).

Since Murray did not break the syringe, Michael must have. Or so they claim. The defense is asking the FBI to deliver the first generation fingerprint.

You buying it? Tell us: Dr. Conrad Murray is ...

Today, lawyers for Dr. Conrad Murray will go to court to ask that authorities turn over all of the surveillance videos from Michael Jackson's house.

Slight problem with that.

The surveillance video of MJ's home the day he died has been erased. No one thought this would be a criminal case and it was simply taped over.

The death of Michael Jackson remains cloaked in mystery.

The LAPD only copied four minutes of footage - Jackson coming home from rehearsal at around 12:30 a.m. June 25. The rest is gone for good.

When the LAPD obtained the video just after MJ's death, the case was not a homicide investigation. All they wanted to do was establish a timeline.

At the time, its only relevance was showing when MJ came home. Cops never looked at the rest of the video, which re-records every 24 hours.

Last fall, we reported that Michael Jackson's children may be asked to testify on behalf of Dr. Conrad Murray, as the embattled physician's lawyers seek to establish that the late, great King of Pop had longstanding drug addictions.

While that says little about Murray's actual care, Jackson's kids apparently thought highly of him in that regard too, because their famous father did.

The children refused to believe that their dad died of a heart attack in June 2009, since MJ raved that Dr. Conrad Murray was the best doctor on Earth.

For what it's worth, Michael and the kids loved Murray.

Jackson's former nanny, Grace Rwaramba, has described his addictions in detail, and spoke with LAPD investigators about how Dr. Murray became a "regular" around the house when the singer lived in Vegas, visiting at least twice a week.

Grace said Michael would constantly praise Murray in front of the kids, and that's why after he died, the kids would say, "There's no way daddy could have died of a heart attack because Dr. Murray is the best doctor in the whole world."