Dr. Conrad Murray Lawyers Seek to Bar Testimony On Swallowing Propofol
[size=14pt]Dr. Conrad Murray<br />Lawyers Seek to Bar Testimony<br />On Swallowing Propofol <br />[/size]<br />9/6/2011 9:46 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF<br /><br /><br /><br />Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyers want to ban a prosecution medical expert from testifying that ingesting Propofol would not trigger a fatal reaction.<br /><br />TMZ broke the story months ago ... the defense will argue ... a frustrated Michael Jackson accidentally killed himself by either ingesting or injecting himself with a fatal dose of Propofol when Dr. Murray left the room.<br /><br />Prosecutors intend to call Dr. Steven Schafer, who embraces two studies which allegedly conclude a patient can't die from orally ingesting the drug.<br /><br />In one of the studies, 6 Chilean students volunteered to drink Propofol -- and they survived just fine.<br /><br />Another study produced the same results, but the patients were pigs -- real pigs.<br /><br />Dr. Murray's team claims the studies are hearsay, because Dr. Schafer wasn't part of the tests.<br /><br />Judge Michael Pastor has not ruled on the objection.<br /><br />
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