Your Vote: Conrad Murray

meltoine

Guilty or not? Why?

meltoine

I think guilty. He chose money over professional ethics. Not cool. Not surprising, but not cool.

DowagerCountessofNJ

meltoine:

I think guilty. He chose money over professional ethics. Not cool. Not surprising, but not cool.

Agree but Michael Jackson definitely had a hand in his own death.  He chose a doctor specifically because he felt he could control him.

meltoine

Sgt M's Wife:

meltoine:

I think guilty. He chose money over professional ethics. Not cool. Not surprising, but not cool.

Agree but Michael Jackson definitely had a hand in his own death.  He chose a doctor specifically because he felt he could control him.

I agree, but I don't think that makes the doctor less responsible. MJ is dead. There's nothing we can do about him. But being a boutique doctor who specializes in giving his patients whatever they ask for instead of what's good for them, like he took an oath to do, is still a dovchy thing.  

DowagerCountessofNJ

meltoine:

Sgt M's Wife:

meltoine:

I think guilty. He chose money over professional ethics. Not cool. Not surprising, but not cool.

Agree but Michael Jackson definitely had a hand in his own death.  He chose a doctor specifically because he felt he could control him.

I agree, but I don't think that makes the doctor less responsible. MJ is dead. There's nothing we can do about him. But being a boutique doctor who specializes in giving his patients whatever they ask for instead of what's good for them, like he took an oath to do, is still a dovchy thing.  

Again I agree.  My brain was foggy when I wrote that reply.  I should have added that it doesn't make CM less guilty. 

I'm just sick of the media and the public making MJ out to be the helpless victim of a cruel doctor.  He was all sorts of hopped on different medication and I can guarantee he wasn't completely forthcoming with CM about what he was and wasn't using.

I'm surprised the defense hasn't made the argument that CM was trying to stand by his oath of "do no harm" by  attempting to helping MJ instead of just washing his hands of him because of his drug seeking tendencies.

firsttimersluck

Notguilty. The guy knows how "on show" he is as a doctor to such a famous person. I think that maybe there was some negligence (and by negligence I mean that he probably was pressured into giving MJ what he wanted since the guy was probably paying incredible amounts to use him as a doctor and could easily ruin his career if he wanted to) but nothing that makes him worthy of taking the blame for MJ's own negligence.

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Guilty!!!!!

*Krista*

definitely guilty. He's only being accused of criminal negligence that may have contributed to death. If he was being charged with murder, it would be iffy. But it seems pretty obvious that he's guilty of the charges.