AEG Live's lawyer asked a jury to find Michael Jackson
responsible for his death, not the concert promoter.
According to CNN, Attorney Marvin Putnam spent four hours
Wednesday deliver his closing arguments in the trial of the wrongful death
lawsuit brought by Jackson 's
mother and three children.
"Plaintiffs want you to hold a concert promoter liable
for Michael Jackson's overdose in his bedroom at night, behind locked doors on
June 25, 2009," Putnam told jurors. "An overdose of the drug
administered to Mr. Jackson by his longtime doctor -- Dr. Murray -- who he'd
been seeing for years, a doctor he brought to Los Angeles
from Las Vegas ."
When the trial began five months ago, Putnam warned he would
show "ugly stuff" and reveal Jackson 's
"deepest, darkest secret."
The revelations that jurors heard from 58 witnesses over 83
days of testimony spanning 21 weeks included details of Jackson's drug use and
his shopping for a doctor to give him the surgical anesthetic propofol that he
thought would give him sleep.
"He was nearly half a billion dollars in debt,"
Putnam argued Wednesday. "His mother's house was near foreclosure, we
didn't know that then. What else do we know now? That Mr. Jackson spent decades
shopping for doctors to give him the painkillers he wanted. Mr. Jackson made
sure we didn't know that."
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