"This is it" rehearsals videos transported by armed guards

The last videos of Michael Jackson were transported in an unmarked truck, accompanied by armed guards in the dead of the night, this according to new docs filed in the Conrad Murray manslaughter case.

Murray's lawyers had subpoenaed all of the rehearsals videos shot for the "This is It" tour claiming the last two days of the rehearsals recently admitted at the trial were manipulated to show Michael Jackson in the best conditions. They believe the videos could show that Michael was in such a frail condition, so there were many reasons for his death other than Propofol.

In the autopsy report the Coroner stated that Michael was in good health and his weigh was normal for his height with no trace of deseases that could put his health and life in distress and that there wasn't any trace of drug abuse.

Murray is accused of manslaughter and serious negligence for having administered to his patient a potent anesthetic without the safety measures required and in an inadequate environment, then leaving him alone in the room for speaking and texting on the phone, as results by Murray's phone records and to have tried to hide the proofs against him after realized that Michael was in distress, as revealed in the preliminary hearing.

Now Sony Pictures, which has possession of the videos, is objecting for several reasons. Sony claims there are more than 20 boxes of videos and it would cost $200,000 to log and reproduce all of them.

But in the docs, Sony describes how top secret the videos were to the studio. Sony lawyers say: "When they were transported to the Sony lot in Culver City, the transport in an unmarked truck was accompanied by armed guards in the dead of the night".

When the tapes were in an editing bay, security guards were posted outside the door and no Internet access was allowed in the room.

And a Sony honcho also submitted a declaration which says the videos "have a high monetary value inherent in their potential for future uses. Those uses include one or more 'anniversary editions".

Lawyers are due in court in Los Angeles Thursday, June 16.

MJFS