Prosecutors ridicule Jackson self-injection scenario

An expert defence witness suggested on Monday Michael Jackson could have risen from his bed, picked up a syringe left by his doctor and given himself a fatal dose of a powerful anesthetic in 2009.

But the testimony by Dr Paul White in the trial of Dr Conrad Murray was ridiculed by prosecutors in an aggressive cross-examination of the key witness for the defence.

As the trial — now in its sixth week —began drawing to a close, Murray told the judge he was still considering testifying in his own defence, despite previous assurances by his lawyers they did not plan to call him.

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