Jackson Doctor Defense Files Appeal, Seeks Delay
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<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14439283<br /><br />Jackson Doctor Defense Files Appeal, Seeks Delay<br /><br /><br /><br />By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent<br />LOS ANGELES September 3, 2011 (AP)<br />Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor have filed an emergency appeal seeking to overturn a judge's refusal to sequester jurors in his upcoming trial.<br /><br />Attorneys asked to delay the start of jury selection on Sept. 8 until the issue of sequestration is decided by the appellate court.<br /><br /><br />In a 28-page petition filed late Friday, lawyers said jurors will be poisoned by publicity unless they are locked up in a hotel during Dr. Conrad Murray's trial. They acknowledged that their request is extraordinary, but so was Jackson, whose legacy will feed news coverage.<br /><br />In the alternative, they asked that the judge rescind his decision to have the trial televised.<br /><br />Murray is accused of giving Jackson an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
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