michael jackson

Nov 29 2011

Judge Pastor lashed out at Murray during the sentencing hearing

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Michael Jackson’s personal physician was sentenced today to four years behind bars for the singer’s June 2009 death from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol, with the judge blasting the doctor for engaging in a “money-for-medicine” experiment that killed the entertainer.

Dr. Conrad Murray, 58, was convicted Nov. 7 of involuntary manslaughter.

Nov 17 2011

Fallout from the Jackson manslaughter trial

A hearing for a lawyer who defended Dr. Conrad Murray in the death of Michael Jackson was postponed when the attorney failed to show up on Tuesday.

 The judge wanted to talk to Matt Alford about an interview he gave during the involuntary manslaughter trial.

 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor said he would order—but hold—a body attachment for Alford, whose secretary left a message for the court that he was in trial in Houston.

Stanley O. Williford  |   OW Editor
Oct 20 2011

He points a finger at other doctors, and AEG

A Los Angeles defense attorney, whose commentaries on the Conrad Murray trial can be heard over NBC-4 Television, sees problems in the way the physician is being prosecuted and, hence, in the way Black Americans are perceiving the facts of the case.
 
Attorney Dermot Givens’ own assessment is that the trial is not fair.

He asks why Murray is the only physician being charged with a crime when other physicians were clearly involved in prescribing powerful drugs for Michael Jackson. 

Stanley O. Williford  |   OW Editor
Oct 13 2011

Organization has assisted thousands of students and others

If you or someone you know has been blessed to be one of the more than 18,000 youths who have been helped by the 100 Black Men of Los Angeles’ Young Black Scholars (YSB) program over the past years, you understand the importance of the organization’s 30th anniversary gala on Oct. 21.

Sep 28 2011

An executive with concert promoter AEG will be back on the stand today

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.