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Dr. Conrad Murray: this week the girlfriends took the stand and more audio of Jackson speaking to the doctor. Did Michael Jackson have to die? Dr. Murray is on trial for involuntary manslaughter for the death of The King Of Pop. More audio of Michael Jackson was played to the jury. He was talking to Dr. Murray in a slurred, deep voice telling him I Hurt You Know I Hurt. Meanwhile, was Dr. Murray on the phone talking and texting while Jacksonlay dying? Four different women, including a babymomma, testified texting or talking to Dr. Murray the day Jacksondied. None of the women were Dr. Murray’s wife. Yes, he was married at the time! The babymomma had jurors almost laughing when she testified about meeting Jackson on a separate occasion and showing him her baby bump. Another girlfriend, a waitress, testified that on the day Jacksondied she realized something was wrong when Dr. Murray didn’t answer her when they were talking. He forgot to hang up the phone. Dr. Murray’s next call was to Jackson’s personal assistant. Meanwhile, tabloid photos show Dr. Murray at the beach and getting a pedicure while this case is being tried. Hmmmmmmm! Will Dr. Murrayget convicted of negligence? Prosecutors say Dr. Murray gave Michael Jackson a fatal dose of propofol, but Murray’s lawyers maintain Jackson administered the fatal additional dose to himself.
PERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old American found guilty in 2009 of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher, was a free woman after an appeals court jury on Monday acquitted her and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
Pier Paolo Cito / AP
Knox, 24, collapsed in tears after the jury declared that the evidence against the two was not reliable.
After briefly returning to prison for a formal discharge, Knox was seen being driven away in a convoy. Rocco Girlanda, an Italian lawmaker who is close to the Knox family, said she planned to leave Italy on Tuesday.
In court, the Kercher family looked on grimly as the verdict was read out by the judge after 11 hours of deliberations by the eight-member jury.
Outside the courthouse, some of the hundreds of observers shouted “Shame, shame!”
The Kercher family issued a brief statement, saying: “We respect the decision of the judges but we do not understand how the decision of the first trial could be so radically overturned. We still trust the Italian justice system and hope that the truth will eventually emerge.”
If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the police officer’s credibility…
Q: ‘Officer — did you see my client fleeing the scene?’
A: ‘No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away.’
Q: ‘Officer — who provided this description?’
A: ‘The officer who responded to the scene.’
Q: ‘A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?’
A: ‘Yes, sir. With my life.’
Q: ‘With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?’
A: ‘Yes sir, we do!’
Q: ‘And do you have a locker in the room?’
A: ‘Yes sir, I do.’
Q: ‘And do you have a lock on your locker?’
A: ‘Yes sir.’
Q: ‘Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?’
A: ‘You see, sir — we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.’
The courtroom EXPLODED with laughter, and a prompt recess was called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year’s ‘Best Comeback’ line — and we think he’ll win.
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In a recent interview,
General Norman Schwarzkopf
was asked if he thought
there was room for forgiveness
toward the people who have harbored
and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated
the 9/11 attacks on America .
His answer was classic Schwarzkopf.
The General said, ” I believe that forgiving them is God’s function.
OUR job is to arrange the meeting. ” AMEN