Dr. Conrad Murray's team is dropping its claim that Michael Jackson orally self-administered the lethal dose of propofol.
It's the argument they laid out in opening statements and had been working to build since the first witness took the stand.
But Dr. Murray's lawyers just told the court they will instead focus on a theory that Jackson used a syringe to inject the sedative through a catheter which was running into his left leg. Attorneys and experts have both said at various points throughout the trial that oral ingestion of propofol would deliver only minimal sedative effects, certainly not enough to prove fatal.
So already a major day in court, between this significant strategy switch and cardiologist Dr. Alon Steinberg rattling off six ways Dr. Murray deviated from the standard of care in his treatment of Jackson.
What do you think of this new defense claim? Will it help them prove their point? Or will jurors see it as a sign of desperation in their defense of Dr. Murray?
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