10 Things About Conrad Murray’s Trial
1. The Jackson family enters the courtroom every day under heavy security measures. The trial session is held on the ninth floor of the building, and no one is allowed to enter that floor until all family members are seated in the second row. It has been seen that Prosecutor Deborah Brazil walks over to Catherine Jackson, the family’s mother, and shakes her hand. After the session ends, the family members leave the venue before everyone else.
2. All 12 main jurors and 5 alternate jurors are ordinary people, far from any luxury, and they carefully keep everything under watch in court. They write down the events of the trial on their papers.
3. Ed Chernoff, the lead defense attorney for the accused Conrad Murray, is disorganized and scattered. His papers spin in the air, and he seems to act on instinct.
4. The prosecution team is orderly and well-prepared. They’ve equipped themselves with slides, audio tapes, and videos. Besides that, they conduct the question-and-answer sessions with witnesses in a methodical way, as if they were a very well-trained national rugby team.
5. Murray, a heart specialist standing 196 centimeters tall, came and went through the courtroom very calmly and with complete composure—more like a presidential election candidate than a doctor on trial.
6. There’s no room for a pin to drop in the courtroom. The number of people—media members and the Jackson family—reaches 50. Reporters can transmit information to the world on their laptops, and the synchronized sound of their typing on the keyboard fills the courtroom. Five court observers—one of them behind bulletproof glass in a bunker—stare at the people like eagles and don’t take their eyes off them, lest one of them use a phone or take a photo.
7. Unlike other floors, the ninth floor is under high-level protection. Everyone must pass through a metal detector corridor and have their belongings go through an X-ray enclosure. Also on the first floor, the officers are very serious and strict, and they don’t allow those Michael Jackson fans who have obtained chance tickets to enter the courtroom with equipment such as his armband or symbolic gloves.
8. During the 90-minute lunch break, the Jackson family enters a private room and eats there. They order the food from a restaurant.
9. The judge is not satisfied with the defense attorneys. They keep objecting. Judge Michael Pastor, who doesn’t take jokes lightly, has shouted at Ed Chernoff, the lead attacker for the defense team, several times.
10. The Jackson family sits close to the jury box. They want to remind the jury that they lost a beloved member because of the accused doctor.
Source: eMJey.com / eonline.com