
Dr. Drew welcomed Nancy Grace to his show Wednesday night and it wasn’t long before the feisty former prosecutor weighed in on the day’s stunning testimony in the Michael Jackson death trial.
Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, but right off the top, Nancy told Drew how she believes that Dr. Murray is being undercharged.
“This should have been charged as a murder one,” Nancy said. "It's very confusing, but murder one requires intent to commit the act – not to kill."
Nancy put things in perspective through a hypothetical situation.
“If I took a gun and held it to your head and pulled the trigger, and then went, ‘uh, I didn't mean to kill you, I only meant to scare you,’ it doesn't matter under the law, she explained. “The law presumes you intend the natural consequences of your act … so by holding a gun to your head and pulling the trigger, the law assumes I mean to kill you.“
Nancy later noted that the jury should have a choice ... “murder one, voluntary, involuntary, that should have been up to a jury.“
Later, Drew told Nancy that it seems as though Michael Jackson is the one being put on trial.
“They are,” Nancy said. "I disagree with blaming the victim ... Michael Jackson should not be treated any differently than any other murder victim because if we don't get justice for Jackson, who's going to be there to stand up for you or me when it's our time, when we need justice?”
Dr. Drew agreed saying that "it drives me insane that because somebody does or does not have addiction – that they're therefore guilty or they're on trial. You know, addicts need more help from the medical community. They don't need to be held accountable."
“What Conrad Murray did is worse because he knew that Jackson was a junkie,” Nancy added.
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Dr. Drew speaks with a Michael Jackson fan who stayed outside the courthouse during the Jackson death trial.
Dr. Drew told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta Tuesday night that he has personally never seen propofol outside of a hospital.
“I have never [seen that either], Dr. Gupta added. When I first heard propofol had been used in his [Michael Jakcon's] home, I actually didn't believe it. I thought maybe somehow that story had gotten wrong somewhere along the way."
Gupta said that he even went back and looked into some of the specific rules and regulations of propoful use.
“The FDA says it should be used by somebody who's trained to use it. You should have the monitoring equipment in place, but as you know, it is not a controlled substance."
Dr. Gupta also noted that when you go to hospitals, propofol can be seen sitting out, unlike narcotics that are often locked.
“This isn't something you think of people abusing outside the hospital," Dr. Gupta said. "People in the hospital abused it in the past, but not on the outside."
Dr. Drew added that he has looked at the packaging for propofol.
“It only talks about using it in a monitored setting," Drew said. "It doesn't contemplate its own insert that anyone would use it orally or use it outside a hospital.”
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On Tuesday night, Judge Larry Seidlin, the man who presided over the Anna Nicole Smith custody case, said Dr. Drew was the face of the Dr. Conrad Murray trial because Drew is an addiction specialist.
“Wouldn't you have difficulty if someone said to you they would have to give you a million a month?” Seidlin asked.
“No,” Dr. Drew responded. “I understand what this is, and this situation is so adulterated, so poisoned by money, by fame, by power … that's when I start to feel bad for Dr. Conrad Murray. He walked into a situation that he should have looked at and turned and run away [from] because once he walked in that door and signed up for this, horrible, horrible things were going to happen.”
Seidlin asked Drew, “Did they buy his [Conrad Murray] soul for all that dough?”
“I don't know about his soul,” Drew responded. "I hate to condemn somebody, but we are talking about murder here.“
Seidlin said that he thinks Jackson's judgment was taken away.
"As you know, your Hippocratic Oath says, first thing, 'I shall do no harm,’ Seidlin noted. "With this $150,000 a month, why didn't he have a whole team around him. When he went to the bathroom, made phone calls – the girls, where was the team?"
“That's the point,” Drew responded. "There should have been a team assembled. To try to go it alone with a case like this ill serves the patient. The whole medical profession then ill serves the patient."
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