Lawyer: Jackson case now manslaughter probe [View All]

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Source: CNN

Kiran Chetry: Again, this was confirmed by the attorney for Conrad Murray and they’re saying that they raided the clinic looking for evidence of manslaughter. How significant is this?

Paul Callan: This is a major development in the case. I mean here we have Conrad Murray’s attorney admitting that there’s an ongoing manslaughter investigation. And we know that a Los Angeles judge has issued a search warrant. Now judges can only issue a search warrant where there’s probable cause to believe a crime has been committed – in this case, manslaughter – and there’s probable cause to believe that evidence of that crime is at Dr. Conrad Murray’s office. So I think we can safely say that authorities are looking at him probably as a suspect. They’re certainly hostile to his position at this point.

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