@Arella Mae,
Quote: I don't for a second think he was trying to kill Michael. He had given him the propofol for twenty nights before the fatal night so I'm sure he felt pretty confident nothing was going to happen on night 21.
Have you ever had surgery? I have. No way are you going to wake up from a propofol drip and inject yourself with anything. You would not be capable of doing it.
Even if there was a way, there is still he gave the medication outside of a hospital setting without emergency equipment and he left his patient, which you do not do, so he is culpable even if Michael could have injected himself.
Whereas I don't believe that Dr.Murray directly intended Jackson's death, as a physician he had to have known the dangers of the medication, including its addictive quality.
On the matter of the Propofol and IV drips. There are drips which come equipped with a button that the patient can press on their own. This is usually reserved for late stage terminal illness patients; but, the technology is there and Dr.Murray could have presented it to Mr.Jackson. Although the button press is usually regulated so as a patient cannot abuse it, there are 2 things to keep in mind. First, it can be fiddled with/adjusted/altered, which would allow the patient to keep pressing away until the bag was drained. Second, if it was set so Mr.Jackson could press it, let's say, every 4 hours, he could perhaps have pressed it the first time just moments after the initial injection by Dr.Murray.
As to your comments on post-surgery and abilities being so diminished that a person can't self administer a medication, I disagree. I've been through surgery several times and have been more than alert and capable enough to handle something as routine as an injection would be. As indicated earlier, if he had a button to press, then the task was even simpler.
Given that Mr.Jackson had been on various high level narcotics for quite some time, he'd also have been more adept at operating while in the float zone- you may have seen images/videos of drug addicts who while high have been able to wrap a tourniquet on their arm, and shoot up a second time even as they were in a state where they couldn't verbally or physically respond to anybody around them. Often these second doses lead to fatal overdoses.
At the end of it all, I wasn't in the courtroom, didn't hear all the testimony so I can't say what was said from both sides, what evidence was presented- the public only saw what the media allowed us to see, there's plenty we didn't see or hear about.
