Witness Testimonies: Day 3
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Michael Jackson's former security guard Alberto Alvarez,the first person to reach the singer's bedroom after Conrad Murray called for help, said the doctor ordered him to grab several medicine vials before instructing him to call 911.
Alvarex testified that he received a call from Michael Amir Williams(Michael's assistant)But missed the call. He said that he returned the call at 12:18 PM and was asked by Williams, his wehre-abouts. After stating that he was in the security trilor, Williams told him to get to the house because something was going on with Jackson.
According to Alvarez, he immediately exited the security trailor and headed to the house with Williams still on the line.
When he arrived at the house, he tried to open the front glass door but it was locked.
Mr Alvarez stated that he could see the nanny, Paris, Kai Chase(Jackson's personal chef) and Dr. Murray who was standing at the top of second floor with both hands on the railing leaning forward looking down to the first floor area when he peered into the glass door.
The nanny then opened door and Alvarez quickly went upstairs.
Alvarez further testified that, when he arrived in Jackson's bedroom the date of his death, the singer was lying on his back and Murray was administering one-handed chest compressions, with the palm of his left hand to him.
Alvarez testified that at this time, he saw Jackson lying on the bed, hands extended out, palms up, eyes and mouth slightly open with his face turned slightly towards the left foyer area.
He described Murray's frenzied state as he entered the bedroom that day.
"When I came into the room he said, 'Alberto hurry, we have to take him to the hospital we have to get him an ambulance,'" Alvarez recalled.
Paris and Prince entered the room as Mr. Alvarez was walking towards the bed reaching for his phone. "Pince and Paris were walking right behind me."
Alvarez stated that he was unaware until Paris screamed out "Daddy!" When asked by the Walgren if Paris was Crying Alvarez stated "yes."
When asked about the positioning of Michael at the time, Mr. Alvarez said that Michael's face was looking slightly towards Paris' location.
According to Alvarez, Dr. Murray said "Don't let them see there dad like this" so he then proceded to usher them out of the room. Mr. Alvarez said he attempted to calm the children and said "Don't worry we will take care of it, everything will be okay." He then walked the children towards the landing area near the front door of the suite. It was at this time that Mr. Alvarez( who was standing at the foot of the bed asked what happened and Dr. Murray said "he had a reaction, he had a bad reaction."
Alvarez also testified that Jackson was hooked up to a catheter, and there was tubing attached to his nose.
"While I was at the foot of the bed, he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials.
Then he reached out to me and said, "Here, put these in a bag," he said. " I looked towards my right and there was a plastic bag sitting on the top of the chair so I proceeded to get the bag. I opened it and he placed the vials in the bag. He said to place that bag in a brown bag."Alvarez recalled.
Alvarez says Murray also told him to remove a saline bag from an IV stand in Jackson's room. "He pointed towards the IV stand. He pointed to a bag and said 'Now grab that (saline) bag and put that in the blue bag,'" Alvarez said, adding that he complied.
According to Alvarez, the bag had a bottle inside of it, and what appeared to be "milky-white substance" at the bottom.
Alvarez testified that the bottle in the saline bag appeared to be a bottle of Propofol.
Alvarez said that there was another saline bag hanging from the IV stand without a bottle in it, which Murray did not instruct him to remove.
Prosecutor David Walgren showed a saline bag and a 100 ml bottole of propofol. Alvarez said he recognized it as what he saw at the scene. Records show that Murray ordered more than 4 gallons of the anesthetic between April and June 2009.
Asked why he thought Murray was asking him to collect the items, Alvarez replied, "I thought we were packing to get him ready to go to the hospital."
On cross-examination, Alvarez conceded that he hadn't told police about removing the IV bag on the day of Jackson's death, and didn't reveal that fact until August 2009.
Alvarez, who was the first security person on the scene, made the 911 call that day. Thursday morning, jurors heard the 911 call that Alvarez placed on the day of Jackson's death.
In the call, which was placed at 12:20 p.m., Alvarez is heard telling the 911 operator, "We have a gentleman here who needs help; he's not breathing. We're trying to pump him, but … he's not conscious, sir."
Alvarez made the operator aware of Murray's presence, saying, "We have a personal doctor here, but he's not responding to the CPR or anything."
Asked by the operator if anyone had seen what had happened, Alvarez responded, "No, just the doctor sir ... He's pumping his chest, but he's not responding to anything."
Alvarez further testified that, as he and Murray shifted Jackson in the bed, Alvarez noticed that a tube was connected from a bag hanging on the IV stand to Jackson's leg, which Murray removed. Alvarez also told the court that Murray attached a heart monitor to Jackson's finger.
Murray then instructed Alvarez to administer chest compressions to Jackson, while Murray performed mouth-to-mouth.
"This is the first time that I do mouth-to-mouth, but I have to -- he's my friend," Alvarez recalled Murray saying.
Asked if there was any indication that Jackson was still alive, Alvarez replied, "No."
On cross-examination, Alvarez admitted that he hadn't told police about Murray's request to stash the vials to police on the day of Jackson's death, and didn't divulge the information until a police interview in August.
Murray's defense attorney, Ed Chernoff, hinted that Alvarez might have added the details in August in order to make himself more attractive as an interview subject.
"Would it be fair to say that the story you gave on August 31, 2009, was substantially more interesting than the one you gave on June 25, 2009?" Chernoff asked.
Alvarez countered that seeing a detective emerging from Jackson's home on television with a blue bag similar to the one he stowed the IV bag in, along with television reports about Propofol and its milky quality, prompted him to tell authorities about Murray's request.
Michael Jackson's former chef, Kai Chase, testified at the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray on Thursday, telling the court that Murray rushed into Jackson's kitchen in the minutes leading up to Jackson's death.
Ms. Chase began her testimony by telling the jury that she would typically arrive at Jackson's home between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., prepare a granola and almond milk breakfast for the children, then prepare Mr. Jackson's breakfast right afterward if he did not eat with them.
When asked, Ms. Chase said that Mr. Jackson would have breakfast with his children in the dining room on average about twice a week. The singer, she said, often ate the same granola and almond milk breakfast, or he would sometimes ask for an omelet or another food with "lots of vegetables in it."
Mr. Jackson liked juices, she said -- organic carrot or beet juice -- or combinations of organic fruit and vegetable juices that Ms. Chase would mix up for him. For example, she said, she made a juice they called the "beet blast" drink "that he loved."
Sometimes, she would leave prepared meals in the refrigerator for Mr. Jackson if he did not come downstairs to eat, or she would leave a meal in a "to go" format so that he could take it to rehearsal with him and eat later. It was important to him, Ms. Chase testified, that he and his children ate healthy meals.
The day before Mr. Jackson died, Ms. Chase said she prepared a dinner of white bean Tuscan soup "to go" for him. The next day, she found the soup still in the refrigerator.
On June 25th, the day Mr. Jackson died, Chase testified that she arrived at her normal time at the Jackson home.
Mr. Jackson did not have breakfast with his children that day nor send down word what he wanted. Chase recalled.
She fed the children as she normally did then went to the market to buy food. When she returned, she set about making lunch for the family. She said Mr. Jackson liked to have lunch each day promptly at 12:30 p.m., so she made lunch to be ready at that time unless otherwise notified. On that day, she was preparing a spinach cob salad with organic turkey breast for lunch.
"I was preparing lunch for Mr. Jackson and the children,I saw Dr. Murray come down the stairs and into the kitchen in a panic and frantic," Chase recalled, noting that he came into the kitchen between 12:05 and 12:10 p.m.
According to Chase, Murray told her, "Get help, get security, get Prince,'" referring to Jackson's son.
According to Chase, Murray was shouting in a "frantic" condition -- but did not ask her to call 911.
Chase recalled that because Jackson's son was within eyesight, she went to the den to get Prince, who then went to Murray. Chase stated she then went back to work and did not notice where Prince went with the doctor; shortly after, Chase noticed that staff members seemed upset, were crying and beginning to gather.
Chase also testified that Jackson's children were crying.
"None of us knew what was going on at the time, but the energy in the house did not feel good," Chase testified.
As she and the children held hands and prayed, Chase said, security personnel began rushing up the stairs toward Jackson's bedroom. Shortly thereafter, she and the housekeeping staff were asked by security personnel to leave the premises.
Asked whether she ever gave interviews to the media or was paid for interviews about what she knew,Chase admitted to receiving about $7,000 total at $1,000 per interview for several international television appearances.
Chase testified that on those shows she would talk about "the love and the food" that she was involved with at the Jackson home, then do a cooking segment.
Chase noted that she also gave interviews to United States media outlets the summer of Mr. Jackson's death to television programs such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, In Session, and Larry King Live, for which she received no monetary compensation.
Upon cross examination by Flannegan, Chase was questioned as to why she decided to summon young Prince Jackson (who was only 12 years old at the time) to help Dr. Murray instead of a security staff of adults that was based in a trailer outside the home. Chase said Prince was someone she could get hold of more quickly, since he was in view. "I did as I was told," she said in summoning Prince Jackson.
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