After a three-day weekend including a US public holiday, the manslaughter trial resumes hearing testimony on a gripping police interview with doctor Conrad Murray two days after the King of Pop's death on June 25, 2009.Last Friday a hushed courtroom heard as Murray recounted his efforts to help Jackson sleep at his plush mansion in Los Angeles, where the star was rehearsing for a planned series of comeback shows in London.Murray is accused of involuntary manslaughter by giving Jackson an overdose of propofol, a powerful sedative. His lawyers claim Jackson was a desperate addict who administered a fatal dose himself while Murray was out of the room.
But prosecutors will highlight alleged inconsistencies, or at least gray areas, in the doctor's account - notably from 10:40 am until 12:20 pm that day - when paramedics were called to find the star apparently already dead.Questions will also focus on a series of calls to and from Murray's phone during the missing hour, including one from a female friend who heard noises in the background as the doctor apparently became distracted.In the police interview played in court Friday - the end of which is expected to be heard on Tuesday - Murray claimed he had begun trying to wean the singer off a drug which he "loved" but that killed him.
