Dr. Conrad Murray Scheduled For Arraignment
Following Friday’s will-he-or-won’t-he-surrender-be-arrested-or-be-arraigned nonsense, Dr. Conrad Murray is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 pm today.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
At the arraignment, Dr. Murray will be advised of his charges, and his lawyers say he will enter a not guilty plea (most defendants plead not guilty at this first hearing). The next major step will be the preliminary hearing, at which the prosecution must establish “probable cause” of two things: that a crime was committed and that Dr. Murray committed it.
I spoke with numerous people over the weekend who said Dr. Murray should not serve a lot of jail time either because he didn’t intend to kill Michael Jackson and because MJ was a drug addict.
What do you think? Keep in mind that the maximum jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter is only four years.
