According to the NY Post, a video image showing the dead body of Michael Jackson on a hospital gurney was shown today to jurors during opening statements of Dr. Conrad Murray’s manslaughter trial which started today in Los Angeles.
“The acts and the omissions of Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, directly led to his premature death at the age of 50,” said Los Angeles Deputy DA David Walgren.
Michael Jackson paid “far too high a price” for the criminally negligent care of his doctor when the world-famous singer dropped dead two years ago, prosecutors said.
Jackson’s siblings, Janet, 45, and Randy, 49, attended the trial.
The video image shows Jackson’s pale, lifeless body lying on a gurney after attempts by emergency room docs to restart his heart failed. The word ‘Homicide’ is edited into the frame.
Jackson still has the intubation tube down his throat, which paramedics used in a futile effort to pump air into his lungs before he got to the hospital. The video was probably shot in the coroner’s office since there is no other emergency equipment visible in the photo.
See the disturbing photo after the break.
Photos of Janet and Randy by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images North America and REUTERS/Danny Moloshok