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1(|) Minority & Small Business Week
September 23, 2009
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Charges Wait in Jackson Death
Decision will come from D.A.
(A P) - It's been alm ost three
m o n th s
sin c e
M ic h a e l
Jackson's shocking death, and
w hile Los A ngeles police are
close to w rapping up their in­
v e stig a tio n , the d e c isio n on
w h e th e r to b rin g c r im in a l
charges is at least w eeks and
perhaps m onths away, legal ex­
perts say.
Last m onth the Los A ngeles
County coroner ruled Jackson's
June 25 death a homicide caused
prim arily by the pow erful anes­
thetic propofol in com bination
w ith the sedative lorazepam .
B oth w ere a d m in is te r e d in
Jackson's m ansion by his per­
sonal p h y sician , Dr. C o n rad
Murray.
M urray is the target o f w hat
police term a m anslaughter in­
vestigation but the probe is far
broader, encom passing a half-
dozen doctors who treated Jack-
son over the years. Police and
federal Drug Enforcem ent A d­
m inistration agents are trying
to reconstruct Jackson's exten­
sive drug history, a task m ade
m ore difficult because the pop
star used pseudonym s to o b ­
tain medications.
T racking dow n where Jack-
son got drugs, w ho provided
them , how m uch his prior drug
use c o n trib u te d to his d eath
and lining up experts to distill
com plex m edical inform ation
into laym an's term s for a jury is Michael Jackson
tim e-consum ing.
lice investigation is com pleted
"There's no reason for any­ and p rosecutors exam ine the
one to ju m p the gun on th is,” e v id e n c e th e m s e lv e s . "W e
said G reg D. Lee, a retired su­ h av e n 't been p rese n ted w ith
pervising D EA agent. "Tim e is anything," she said.
on their side. T here's no im m i­
Except for a brief video posted
nent danger to the public from to YouTube, M urray has not
spoken
p u b lic ly
sin c e
Dr. Murray."
T h e d e c isio n on crim in a l Jackson's death. In the video,
charges will com e from the Los he said: "I told the truth and I
A n g e le s C o u n ty d is tr ic t have faith the truth will prevail."
M u rray 's attorney, E dw ard
attorney's office. Spokeswoman
Sandi G ibbons said a request C hem off, did not return a m es­
for charges com es after a po- sage seeking com m ent but pre­
v io u s ly h a s sa id n o th in g
M urray gave Jackson "should
have" killed him.
Murray has been interviewed
tw ice by police. A ccording to
court records, he told investiga­
tors that over about six hours he
injected Jackson with two doses
each of lorazepam and midazolam.
Finally, around 10:40 a m. on
June 25, M urray said he suc­
cum bed to Jackson's dem ands
and adm inistered p ropofol, a
drug Murray said he had given
Ja ck so n ev e ry n ig h t fo r six
weeks to allow him to sleep.
The coroner's finding o f ho­
micide, or death at the hands of
another, does not autom atically
mean a crime was committed. To
bring a m anslaughter charge,
p ro secu to rs m ust show there
was a reckless action that cre­
ated a risk o f death or great
b o d ily injury. If a d o c to r is
aware o f the risk, there m ight
also be an issue of w hether the
patient know s that risk and d e­
cided to take it.
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Stephanie Bayne (from left), Brian Burger, Jamie Kluth, and
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Hunt Center Theater on the University o f Portland campus.
Famed Singer was Civil Rights Activist
Mary Travers
of Peter, Paul
and Mary dies
(A P) - M ary Travers, one-
th ird o f the h u g e ly p o p u la r
1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and
Mary, is being rem em bered af­
ter her death at age 72.
T ravers died Sept. 16 after
battling leukem ia fo r'sev e ral
years.
She joined forces with Peter
Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey
to mingle music with liberal poli­
tics, both onstage and off. Their
J e t P la n e ” an d
“Puff (The Magic
D ragon.)”
T hey
w ere
early cham pions
o f Bob Dylan and
p e rfo rm e d h is
“B lo w in ’ in the
W ind" at the A u­
gust 1963 March
on W ashington.
And they were
Folk group Peter, Paul and Mary perform
vehement in their
on stage in the mid-1980s.
opposition to the
Vietnam
War,
managing to stay
version o f “If 1 H ad a Hamm er"
true
to
their
liberal
beliefs while
becam e an anthem for racial
creating
m
usic
that
resonated
equality. O th er hits included
in
the
A
merican
mainstream.
“Lem on T ree,” “Leaving on a
Film to Profile Obama’s Mom
Many Portland musicians are
gathering Sunday, Sept. 27 at
the M & M Lounge in Gresham
to raise money to help keyboard
player Johnny Sanders with his
health care expenses.
J o h n n y an d h is b r o th e r
Jim m y have been m ainstays on
the Portland music scene since
the 1960s, playing with many
local m usicians such as Linda
H ornbuckle, Patrick Lam b and
the Triclops O rgan Trio.
Johnny m oved to Nashville,
Tenn. about three years ago to
tak e a p o sitio n in the house
band at BB King’s nightclub. He
also had a full calendar o f stu­
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