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COPS SEARCHED THE OFFICES OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S DOCTOR FOR EVIDENCE OF MANSLAUGHTER:
Thursday July 23rd, 2009

The Feds and the LAPD executed a search warrant yesterday morning, and searched the Houston offices of CONRAD MURRAY . . . the doctor who was MICHAEL JACKSON's personal physician, and who was with him when he died. 

They were looking for evidence of MANSLAUGHTER.

They were there for over two hours, and took a copy of Murray's hard drive, and over 20 documents.  Michael's death is an LAPD case, so two LAPD Robbery-Homicide detectives ran the show, but several dozen DEA agents and some Houston Police officers were there too.

And Dr. Murray's lawyer, Ed Chernoff, was there for the whole thing.  He said, "The search warrant authorized law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter."

A spokesman for the LAPD said that the search is, "part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson."

The warrant is sealed, but a DEA spokesman said the search was related to Propofol, the prescription drug that was supposedly found in Michael's body in lethal amounts.

Now, none of this mean Dr. Murray is a "formal" suspect in the POSSIBLY criminal investigation into Michael's death . . . but obviously it doesn't look good. 

And we're still waiting for the official results of the L.A. County coroner's autopsy, and the family's private autopsy, which are both expected to be released early next week. 

But Murray's lawyer says Murray did NOT give Michael drugs that contributed to his death.

He said, "The coroner wants to clear up the cause of death;  we share that goal.  Based on Dr. Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson's last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges.

"Dr. Murray was the last doctor standing when Michael Jackson died, and it seems all the fury is directed toward him.  Dr. Murray is frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports.  He has to walk around 24-7 with a bodyguard."

It's true:  there HAVE been a lot of unsubstantiated rumors about Dr. Murray since Michael Jackson's death . . . like that he was avoiding authorities, or that he bailed on an interview with the LAPD last week. 

And when Michael's dad JOE JACKSON was interviewed by LARRY KING on Tuesday night, he basically accused Murray of killing Michael.

He said, "There wasn't just only drugs, there was something else . . . This doctor . . . he ran away . . . to me that's foul play.

"You don't take a doctor and stick him in the room there and the doctor give (Michael) something to make him rest and then he don't wake up no more."

But, for the record, Dr. Murray WAS interviewed by police on the day of Michael's death, and again a few days later.  And Murray and his lawyers have always said that they were cooperating.

At the time of the raid, Murray himself was in Vegas, where he's based.  He's licensed in Nevada, Texas, and California, so he has multiple offices.

COPS SEARCHED THE OFFICES OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S DOCTOR FOR EVIDENCE OF MANSLAUGHTER:  7/23

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