The trial of Dr. Conrad Murray took an interesting turn when experts said they believe that Murray gave Michael Jackson Propofol even after MJ had stopped breathing! Dr. Steven Shafer has testified that the drug was still being dripped into Michael’s blood after death and it would have been almost impossible for Michael to give himself the dosage of medication that killed him. Dr. Shafer also said that Murray should have noticed the slow breathing and stopped Michael’s dosage. Read more after the jump.

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Dr. Conrad Murray gave Michael Jackson higher dosages of drugs than he told detectives, and apparently had the anesthetic propofol still trickling into Jackson’s veins as his heart stopped beating, the prosecution’s star witness told jurors Thursday.

Jackson “died – but he’s died with the infusion running,” Dr. Steven Shafer testified.

Throughout the day, Shafer used charts and demonstrations to emphasize the implausibility of defense suggestions that Jackson gave himself an overdose of propofol or the sedative Lorazepam – both of which were measured by the coroner in greater quantities than Murray said he gave.

Shafer said you can’t drink yourself to death or even to sleep with propofol, which he says he proved with a study in which six people liberally drank the milky liquid and were unaffected. He said orally consumed propofol is metabolized by the liver before it reaches the blood, so it must be injected.

Should Have Seen the ‘Slow Breathing’
Instead, Shafer concluded, Murray infused a full helping of one of the dozens of 100-ml. propofol bottles that he was having shipped in bulk to his girlfriend’s Santa Monica apartment – or about 1,000 mg. of the drug. Murray told detectives he administered only 25 mg., and didn’t tell paramedics or emergency room doctors about propofol at all.

Then, Shafer says, Murray took his eyes off Jackson more than long enough to miss seeing Jackson’s lungs become depleted and his heart stop beating. Phone records and testimony suggest Murray was on the phone while this happened.

“Had Conrad Murray been with Michael Jackson during this period of time, he would have seen the slowed breathing and the compromise in the flow of air into Michael Jackson’s lungs, and he could have easily turned off the propofol infusion,” Shafer says.
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