Murray's court hearing posponed

A hearing in the criminal case of Murray has been postponed because lawyers are still viewing hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage from Michael Jackson's This Is It concert.

In a conference with lawyers on Wednesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor accepted the requests to delay a July 12 hearing to July 20. He said he wants to know then when the involuntary manslaughter trial of Conrad Murray can go forward. It is now set for September 20, with jury selection for September 8.

Prosecutors want to show jurors clips from the This Is It rehearsals to prove Michael Jackson was healthy in the days before June 25. The defence wants to show he was ill.

In the autopsy report, the coroner stated that Michael Jackson was in good health and hadn't any desease that could put his life in danger.

The transcript of the conference with the judge and lawyers was released on Thursday.

Lawyers indicated it will take weeks for them to view all of the relevant video recordings of Michael Jackson. They said they have been working every day since June 28 and have gotten through only one of 21 boxes of materials.

"So far, we have found a lot of important stuff," said defence lawyer Nareg Gourjian.

Lawyers have been barred from discussing publicly any evidence they find in the videos.

Prosecutor Deborah Brazil said she has been working along with Gourjian, defence lawyer Ed Chernoff, Sony lawyer Kevin Vick and a technician going through material on computer hard drives.

Gourjian, who originally estimated there were 100 hours of footage from rehearsals, said he now believes there is much more.

"There are about eight to ten different cameras that were recording the rehearsals and each one has different views and different footage," he said. "So it is critical that we review the footage from each camera."

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Source: AP