CNN Breaking News Verdict reached in Dr. Conrad Murray's trial in death of Michael Jackson. (497 hits)

The jury's decision to be announced later. Murray was Jackson's personal physician as the pop star prepared for his comeback concerts. Murray gave Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol to help him sleep nearly every night for the last two months of his life, according to testimony. Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was caused by "acute propofol intoxication" in combination with two sedatives, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled. Jury deliberations began Friday morning in the downtown Los Angeles County courthouse. The seven men and five women on the jury heard 49 witnesses over 23 days, including investigators and medical experts for each side, Jackson's former employees, and Murray's girlfriends and patients.

The prosecution argued that Murray was responsible for Jackson's death because his reckless use of propofol to treat Jackson's insomnia in the singer's home wa s criminally negligent. Defense lawyers said the matter was a negligence case that should instead be heard by the state medical board. Jurors were left to decide whether the propofol overdose was infused into Jackson's blood by a steady intravenous drip, as the prosecution said, or whether Jackson injected himself using a syringe that Murray left near the singer's bed, as the defense argued. Tune in to CNN and HLN for full coverage and analysis of the Murray trial and watch live, as it happens, on CNN.com/Live and CNN's mobile apps.

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