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A lawyer for the doctor who was treating Michael Jackson at the time of his death said Thursday that the doctor planned to surrender to face charges.

“We are presently negotiating with the District Attorneys’ office,” Ed Chernoff, a lawyer for Dr. Conrad Murray, said in a statement posted on his law office’s Web site Thursday morning. What charges the doctor would face and when were unclear — a spokeswoman for District Attorney Steve Cooley said there would be no comment until or unless the case went forward — but the police have disclosed in court papers that they were investigating the possibility of manslaughter charges.

The filing of charges would cap a seven-month investigation that revealed Mr. Jackson’s heavy reliance on narcotics, including propofol, a powerful anesthetic normally used in surgery but administered to Mr. Jackson, 50, apparently as a sleep aid.

The doctor, Conrad Murray, a cardiologist with offices in Houston and Las Vegas, had acknowledged giving Mr. Jackson the drug shortly before the singer was found unconscious June 25 in a rented mansion here, according to police affidavits. The coroner determined that Mr. Jackson had died from “acute propofol intoxication,” combined with other sedatives.

Dr. Murray, 57, who arrived in Los Angeles earlier this week trailed by paparazzi, has maintained through his lawyer that nothing he gave Mr. Jackson should have caused his death.

Via: NYTimes.com