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Doctor in Michael Jackson death faces 2 years in jail

Judge calls Murray’s acts a ‘disgrace’

By Anthony McCartney

 |  Associate Press  

  November 30, 2011

The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars yesterday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a “disgrace to the medical profession.’’ Dr. Conrad Murray sat stoically with his hands crossed as Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor repeatedly chastised him for what he called a “horrific violation of trust’’ while caring for Jackson.

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