Dr. Conrad Murray is seeking to delay his preliminary hearing next month, during which a judge will determine if he will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter.
His legal team claims it may not be ready for the hearing, as they still have not received the full criminal file from the prosecution in the Michael Jackson case.
Miranda Sevcik, spokesperson for Murray’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, says they have only received 3,500 pages of material. That’s out of “hundreds of thousands.”
A D.A. spokesperson counters that the “hundreds of thousands” of pages quote was their error on their part … and in fact there are only “thousands of pages.”
Of which the Conrad Murray team has received “the bulk of it.”
Dr. Conrad Murray’s legal saga could drag on a long, long time.
Sevcik’s response: “It’s odd. It seems like an awfully big miscalculation.”
As a result, Conrad Murray may ask to delay the June 14 hearing soon.
When and if a trial occurs, part of his defense is believed to be the assertion that Michael Jackson killed himself with Propofol while Murray was out of the room.
Murray claims that Jackson was an addictive personality who always pushed the limit of what his body could take, and his death was essentially his own fault.
He might have a case. But if he wins, we suggest he and Jason Pfeiffer enter into a witness protection program ASAP, because MJ fans will hunt them down.