A change in California law allowed his incarceration time to be significantly cut down. The former cardiologist was convicted in of causing Jackson's death in June by providing the superstar with an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.
Jackson was in the midst of preparations for a series of comeback concerts and Murray was serving as his personal physician.
Murray's prospects are uncertain: At age 60 his license to practice medicine has been suspended or revoked in three states and his face and name are well known due to his association with Jackson and his highly-publicized involuntary manslaughter trial. The former doctor is appealing his conviction, although an appeals court has questioned whether it needs to hear the case.
His attorney Valerie Wass has argued that the court should not dismiss the appeal because it could alter his overall sentence and reduce some of the stigma his conviction has caused. Despite being jailed, Murray has not been entirely silent. Audio recordings of his calls have been posted on celebrity website TMZ and the ex-doctor told the Today show that he cried tears of joy after a civil jury recently determined that the promoters of Jackson's comeback shows did not negligently hire Murray.
Michael Jackson's Top 50 Billboard Hits. Conrad Murray case goes to jury. Conrad Murray was sentenced to four years in Licence revoked. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conrad Murray's lawyer, Valerie Vass, dismissed fans who are angry with her client over Jackson's death. Published 3 October Published 29 November With his mother Milta spending most of her time in Trinidad and Tobago in search of better paying work, Murray lived with his maternal grandparents, two Grenadian farmers.
His fractured family life was compounded by the total absence of his father, Rawle Andrews, a Houston area physician who, up until his death in , focused his career on offering medical services to the poor.
Murray didn't meet his dad until he was At the age of seven, Murray relocated to Trinidad and Tobago to live with his mother, where he became a citizen and finished high school. Like Milta, Murray was determined to make a better life for himself, demonstrating at an early age a propensity to work hard. After high school he volunteered as an elementary school teacher in Trinidad, an experience he followed with work as a customs clerk and an insurance underwriter in order to pay for his college education.
Murray also wasn't afraid to take advantage of an opportunity. At the age of 19 he bought his first house, then later sold it for a decent profit to support his university tuition in the United States.
In , two years after first visiting Houston and getting a chance to introduce himself to his father, Conrad Murray returned to Texas to enroll at Texas Southern University, where in just three years he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in pre-medicine and biological sciences.
Other training stints followed; he studied at the University of Arizona on a Cardiology Fellowship and landed back in California, where he eventually worked as the associate director for the interventional cardiology fellowship-training program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. In , Murray left California for a second time and struck out on his own, opening up a private practice in Las Vegas. Locating his office just east of the strip, Murray — again taking a cue from his father — aimed to serve not just the city's wealthy, but its underserved as well.
In , Murray expanded his scope and returned to the city where his father had made a name for himself to open the Acres Homes Heart and Vascular Institute. Murray and that clinic in this community," Houston patient Ruby Mosley told People magazine. Those who've had financial dealings with the doctor, however, might feel otherwise. Unpaid debts, lawsuits and tax liens have followed Dr. Murray's life.
In fact, it was Dr. Murray's debt situation that set the stage for his working relationship with Jackson. The two men had first met in when the singer, a frequent Vegas visitor, had contacted Dr. Although widely used, propofol is intended only for surgical settings and experts have noted that its effects are not actually sleep. This article is more than 8 years old. Former cardiologist freed after serving nearly two years of four-year sentence for role in singer's death in Conrad Murray in court.
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