If the image of a dead Michael Jackson wasn’t enough to shock, the DA pulled out a voice recording at the first day of the Michael Jackson trial.

This, from the Telegraph:

Opening statements in Dr Conrad Murray’s trial began with prosecutors airing a recording of a groggy and seemingly drugged Michael Jackson just weeks before his death.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren told the jury that the message was retrieved from the mobile phone of Dr Conrad Murray.

Recorded in May of 2009, a barely audible Jackson can be heard talking about his planned ‘This Is It’ tour. According the prosecution, the 50 year-old was under the influence of the anesthetic propofol, the drug that eventually caused his death, at the time.

Mr Walgren used the recording to contend that Dr Murray should have ceased administering propofol to the pop singer long before his death.

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