Hearing Delayed Because of This Is It

On Wednesday, during a meeting with the defense attorneys for the accused of killing the King of Pop and the prosecution team, Judge Michael Pastor agreed to postpone a hearing from July 12 to July 20. Perhaps on that day, the start date for the trial regarding the Conrad Murray case will finally be set. The reason is that both sides are heavily occupied watching 21 boxes of film recorded from Michael Jackson’s rehearsals for the This Is It concerts. The prosecution wants to use the concert films to show Michael Jackson’s condition at the time of his death, while the defense attorneys want to use those same films to show his illness and physical weakness. Murray’s attorneys said that watching all the films would take weeks. From June 28 until now, they have been able to review only one of the 21 film boxes. Nareg Gorjian, one of Murray’s attorneys, says they have obtained important things from the films so far. Of course, they are not allowed to say anything about what they have seen. Prosecutor Deborah Brazil, along with Gorjian and Ed Chernoff, Murray’s attorneys, and Kevin Vick, an attorney for Sony, and a film technician, are reviewing the films on computers that do not have internet access. At first, it was said that there were 100 hours of film recorded from Michael’s rehearsals, but Gorjian says he has come to believe that there are more films than what was claimed. “8 to 10 camcorders were recording at the same time, and each one filmed from a specific angle. It’s very important to examine every scene from different angles.” Source: eMJey.com / abcnews.go.com