EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Conrad Murray Won't Face Justice Until January 2011

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Posted on Aug 23, 2010 @ 06:00AM
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Dr. Conrad Murray is back before a Los Angeles judge on Monday, but he won’t be facing the gavel of justice for another five months.

RadarOnline.com has learned the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and Dr. Murray’s legal ace Ed Chernoff have hatched a deal for the involuntary manslaughter charges in the case of Michael Jackson to be heard in January, next year.

“The preliminary hearing will last anywhere from 2-4 weeks," a source close to the case tell us.

Both camps will push the judge to sign off on the date for the closely watched celebrity trial at Monday’s hearing at 12:30pm PST.

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Dr. Murray, the pop singer’s personal physician, has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter.

The purpose of a preliminary hearing is for the judge to decide if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial, or if not, to dismiss it.

After an eight-month investigation, Los Angeles prosecutors charged the Houston-based cardiologist with allegedly administering a lethal cocktail of painkillers and anesthetics to Jackson in the hours before he died on June 25, last year.

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Involuntary manslaughter carries the shortest sentence of any homicide charge in California.

If convicted, Murray faces up to four years in prison.

While Dr. Murray was recently photographed in Miami with his infant son and girlfriend while on vacation, sources tell RadarOnline.com he is grieving the unexpected death of one of his employees’ children.

“Dr. Murray is having a very tough time because of the death,” a source said. “Dr. Murray regards his employees as family.”

So I guess nothing really happened today?

Guess not... I read some place it only lasted 20 minutes. Something about Murray's camp requesting that they are allowed to test body fluids again :( grrrrr.

I know that they have about another 4 yrs or a little less to f around. I feel that the judge is gonna get tired of this crap. They will use every trick in the book to keep this trial from happening until the statutory is up. The defenses job is to keep Murray out of prison. Doin good so far council!

It's great news for the hoax. But if this is not a hoax, it's not good news. I know other cases have taken 3 years to get a verdict, and he's only gong to get 4 years?

4 Years is not enough. If MJ is gone he should get more prison time. This makes me Mad. But, if that Dr. goes to prison he probably won't survive. Unless the prisoners believe the lies that have circulated about MJ

Yeah, I would hate to go to prison being the one who killed Michael. I don't think he will make it either.