I think the judge was pretty harsh

[Dolt]

The judge in the Dr Murray trial, what's he(Dr M) going to do now? As someone else said on another thread, he's not going to go and inject someone else if he's released on bail!
i can't see any harm in letting him out on bail while awaiting sentecing.

[craft1948]

Sure let him out on bail.............then all the nutty MJ fans can have a pop at him.

[Dolt]

Well they didn't have a go at him when he was going in and out of court for the last 6 weeks.

[craft1948]

He hadn't been found guilty then.......

[jno]

"Dr Murray was remanded in custody without bail until he receives his sentence, set for 29 November.

Explaining his decision, the judge said Dr Murray was now a convicted felon and had considerable ties outside the state of California, meaning he could not guarantee that the doctor would remain in the state."

[Dolt]

I know that craft but even when he was going in and out of court noone was trying to kill him then.
I don;t think he would be a danger to anyone if he is let out on bail!

[Dolt]

Jno, where's he going to go if he did get bail?
He would be watched around the clock by the media!

[bigglez]

juj us saved murry from suside

[NOX]

the judgre had to consider four points when deciding on bail Jno, that was only one of them. I have no argument with that, I imagine there is a flight risk, but he also said he considered him to e a threat to the public- and that's frankly an absurd notion. He has to consider all four issues before deciding to grant bail and he pulled him down on public protection.

[jno]

according to the quote I gave (from the BBC) he decided it on the grounds that Murray might flee too. One reason is presumably enough.

[Meg888]

He may not be a danger to anyone ever again (hopefully he's learned his lesson through his illegal practices), but he has been convicted of a crime - why delay the inevitable?

[DTCwordfan]

well he may at least get 3 weeks under his belt - don't know if it was a federal prosecution or a CA state one - there is a significant difference as you can get parole after 50% under the latter, and a miserable 10% on the former.....perhaps we ought to have that here.

[Old_Geezer]

Delay is common, no doubt time in custody already will be taken into consideration anyway. Not sure it makes any odds really, in fact he may be better off, effectively starting now.

Seems to me that although he was the responsible expert, had he refused Jacko would probably have replaced him with someone who wouldn't refuse and the incident happen at some point anyway. Still Dr. Murray has only himself to blame for not giving up the ridiculously highly paid job on principle, and opting to comply instead.

[Dolt]

Well we know the outcome now.