Jurors in the Michael Jackson case saw an autopsy photo of the singer's body Tuesday as a medical examiner testified that the singer probably could not have given himself the lethal dose of the surgical anesthetic blamed for his death.
The testimony of the medical examiner, Dr. Christopher Rogers, contradicts what attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray have told jurors in Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial –- that Jackson awoke while his doctor wasn’t looking and gave himself propofol, the anesthetic, causing his own death.
Murray's statement to police that he was gone for a mere two minutes before returning to find Jackson not breathing made it unlikely that the singer administered the drug himself, Rogers said.
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"You’d have to assume that Mr. Jackson woke up, although he was at least to some extent under the influence of propofol and other sedatives, he was able to somehow administer propofol to himself," Rogers testified.
Given the time it would taken for the drug to make its way through Jackson's body and take effect, Rogers said that scenario was "less reasonable" than the possibility that Murray mistakenly gave Jackson an excessive dose.
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