Jacko Kids Will Be Called As Witnesses In Doc's Trial; Daughter To Be Pressed On Drug Use

Posted on Sep 20, 2010 @ 05:32PM

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Doctor Conrad Murray plans to call two star witnesses in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson - two of pop legend's own children.

And the 57-year-old doc believes their testimony could help get him off a charge of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jacko a lethal sedative overdose.

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RadarOnline.com has learned Jacko's kids, Paris and Prince, will be called as a defense witnesses over the death of their dad and will be questioned about specific statements supposedly made not soon after his death.

Dr. Murray, who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, believes Prince, 13, and Paris, 12, will admit their father had long-standing drug addictions.

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The source said: "After saying goodbye to her dad at the hospital, Paris said, 'My daddy is so cold again. He was always cold. He would sit by the fire to get warm. We were always afraid he would fall in as we was so close to the flames. He couldn't get warm. Now there he is... so cold."

The tearful comments were made in front of a group of people, RadarOnline.com has learned.

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"Prince and Paris knew their dad relied on Dr. Murray to survive and knew their father adored him," said a source, familiar with the legal case.

"Their comments, if they back him, could save him from jail because it would work well in the eyes of a jury."

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Murray, a cardiologist who was with Jackson when he died June 25, 2009, at his rented Los Angeles mansion, is accused of acting "unlawfully and without malice" in bringing about Jackson's death, according to a complaint filed by prosecutors.

The complaint said Murray acted "without the caution and circumspection required" when he administered a powerful sedative to Jackson in an effort to help him sleep.

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Murray, who has pleaded not guilty, is due to stand trial next year.

If convicted, he faces as much as four years in prison.

The lawyer for Murray, Ed Chernoff, told RadarOnline.com: "No decision has been made as to what witnesses will be called and the last possible witnesses we would want to call would be the children."

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i Agree,calling him JACKO is very disrespectful .He hated that !I have the understanding that extreme coldness can be a symptom of the Lupus that he suffered.

by LINDA SF
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 3:17pm

unless it is severely neccessary. or the kids want to defend their dad. LEAVE HIS KIDS ALONE!!

by Tinkerbells
Posted Fri, 09/24/2010 - 4:28pm

This would be like an Anesthesiologists giving a drug-addicted patient on the operating table a careless deadly overdose and simply saying the patient was a drug addict so what if I administered the patient a deadly overdose.

by DonnaMY
Posted Thu, 09/23/2010 - 4:49am

So what if they admit their father had a long standing drug addiction history it will only prove that if Michael Medicated himself or any other physician they did it safely not deadly like dangerous reckless Dr. Murray.

by DonnaMY
Posted Thu, 09/23/2010 - 4:29am

This is a bad strategy for trial. Nobody and I mean NOBODY wants to see a dead father's children grilled and then cry. Dr. Murray and his attys need to revisit their trial strategy.

by Smooch1
Posted Tue, 09/21/2010 - 4:25am

I pray the honest to god truth comes out; the court case needs to explain away all inconsistencies. Disharmony and discord have riddled the fan community since June 25th; Michael was family to us & we need closure too.

by Schietto
Posted Tue, 09/21/2010 - 12:41am

Murray is a pig too. He need to leave Michael kids alone, they have been through enough because of his pathetic murdering arse. God I hate this, I wish satan just come up and take Murray dumb black arse straight to hell with him. UGH!

by MsSarcia
Posted Mon, 09/20/2010 - 11:02pm

ROL yall are fk'n pigs! That is so disrespectful, calling Michael Jackson, "Jacko". His name is Michael Jackson. UGH!!! He's done more for this trifling arse country then any one man, so show some dam RESPECT!

by MsSarcia
Posted Mon, 09/20/2010 - 11:01pm

They be called to testify as witnesses,come on his name isn't "jacko" MJ was not a drug addict like the media is trying to claim,the only drugs found in his system were the ones given by Murray.

by Learnthefacts
Posted Mon, 09/20/2010 - 9:10pm

Agreed. The drugs he was taking were NOT RECREATIONAL drugs. They were to help him live. Who doesn't take something? As we get older we even have maintenance drugs we take. Your hatred is misplaced with this man.

by Smooch1
Posted Tue, 09/21/2010 - 4:27am