Dr. Murray: Is Involuntary Manslaughter Enough?
Popsquire peeps keep asking why Dr. Murray wasn’t charged with a higher degree of homicide.
[Bauer Griffin Online]
The answer is simple. Prosecutors typically charge alleged criminals with the highest degree they can, which means they concluded the evidence only supported involuntary manslaughter. To prove “murder,” the prosecutors would have to show that Dr. Murray intended to kill MJ.
No such evidence has surfaced, especially because Dr. Murray was being paid $250,000 / month to care for MJ. Without MJ, there was no check. The incentive, at least from a financial perspective, would be to keep him alive.
Instead, this is simply a case about a doctor who supplied MJ with medicine that should never have been administered in a home setting, no matter how big of a celebrity the patient was and no matter how much money he was being paid.
