Prosecutors in the trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician are attempting to prove the doctor was busy balancing his personal life, medical practice and care of his superstar patient on June 25, 2009 -- the day the King of Pop died.
During the trial's sixth day, prosecutors are again expected to use phone records to show jurors who was calling Dr. Conrad Murray and when.
Murray's phone records took center stage in his long-awaited involuntary manslaughter trial Monday when two phone company representatives testified about Murray's call log. Patients, a colleague and a woman with whom Murray had a relationship also have testified about phone calls with Murray on the day Jackson died.
Two more women with whom the doctor had a relationship might take the stand Tuesday to provide details about what prosecutors have called a timeline of negligence. The testimony is likely to focus more on their interactions with Murray on June 25, 2009 instead of his personal relationship with the women, one of whom is a cocktail server Murray met at a Houston steakhouse.
Prosecutors contend that Sade Anding, who testified at the preliminary hearing in January, was on the phone with Murray at about the time the doctor realized Jackson was not breathing.
ER Docs: Murray Never Mentioned Propofol
Eight witnesses took the stand Monday -- the most since the trial began one week ago. The most compelling details came from Dr. Thao Nguyen, a cardiologist on duty when the pop star arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
"In Dr. Murray's mind, if we called it quits at that time it would be giving up easily,'' Nguyen said, referring to Murray's insistence that the medical team continue life-saving efforts more than an hour after Jackson arrived at the hospital.
Earlier Tuesday, emergency room doctor Richelle Cooper testified that she believed -- based on radio communications with paramedics who responded to the 911 call from the rented Holmby Hills mansion -- Jackson was long dead before he arrived at the emergency room at 1:13 p.m. She advised paramedics to pronounce Jackson dead at the mansion, but Murray demanded his patient be transported to the hospital.
"At the time Mr. Jackson was my patient, he had already been dead for some time,'' Cooper said, before talking about her encounter with Jackson's children at the hospital.
"They were crying,'' Cooper said. "They were fairly hysterical.''
Paramedics and the emergency room doctors all testified that Dr. Murray never told them he gave Jackson the powerful anesthetic propofol.
Defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan asked Cooper whether that would have made a difference in her treatment. She said it would not have, nor would it have changed the outcome after the ER team worked on Jackson for more than an hour.
A coroner's report shows that Jackson's death was the result of "acute propofol intoxication."
Prosecutors argue that Murray administered the powerful drug, then failed to properly monitor his patient. The defense claims Jackson self-administered the fatal dose when Murray was not in the room.
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