Highlights
- The trial of Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, will include a video of the singer rehearsing onstage and two photos taken hours later of his lifeless body on a coroner's table, a judge has ruled.
- One photograph shows the singer wrapped in a hospital gown and in the other he is naked with portions of his body covered up.
- Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor allowed prosecutors to present the rehearsal footage and autopsy photos of Jackson for the trial on May 9.
- Murray, a Houston-based cardiologist, was the last person to see Jackson alive. The singer died due to a sedative overdose on June 25, 2009. Murray, who is facing involuntary manslaughter, has pleaded not guilty.
- Pastor said segments of Jackson's concert movie, This Is It, will also be allowed to give insight into Jackson's mental and physical state in the days before his death.
- But the defence wanted the autopsy photos barred from the trial, arguing that the images would inflame the jury.
The trial of Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, will include a video of the singer rehearsing onstage and two photos taken hours later of his lifeless body on a coroner's table, a judge has ruled.
One photograph shows the singer wrapped in a hospital gown and in the other he is naked with portions of his body covered up.
Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor allowed prosecutors to present the rehearsal footage and autopsy photos of Jackson for the trial on May 9.
Murray, a Houston-based cardiologist, was the last person to see Jackson alive. The singer died due to a sedative overdose on June 25, 2009. Murray, who is facing involuntary manslaughter, has pleaded not guilty.
Pastor said segments of Jackson's concert movie, This Is It, will also be allowed to give insight into Jackson's mental and physical state in the days before his death.
But the defence wanted the autopsy photos barred from the trial, arguing that the images would inflame the jury.
Pastor has also ruled that jurors will not hear anything about Murray's extramarital affairs or out-of-wedlock children and Jackson's crushing debt and mountain of pending lawsuits.
The judge says personal matters will turn the trial into "a slug fest which inflames the jury and has no end".