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Michael Jackson: Jury selected in Conrad Murray case

By Harriet Ryan and Victoria Kim
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Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

Lawyers have finalized a jury to hear evidence against Michael Jackson’s personal physician.

The panel seated Friday afternoon in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray includes one man who had a brief encounter with Jackson three decades ago. The juror said he was introduced to the singer in the early 1980s while they both were working on the Disney lot.

Another panelist said she followed another recent high-profile case, the Casey Anthony murder trial in Florida. She said she watched “bits and pieces.”

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“It was on a lot. It was kind of hard not to see it,” she said.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court plans to release additional details about jurors later.

Opening statements are expected Tuesday. Murray, 58, faces a maximum of four years in prison if he is convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s 2009 fatal overdose.

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Victoria Kim

Victoria Kim is the former Seoul correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered state and federal courts, worked on investigative projects and reported on Southern California’s Korean community.

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