Two of Michael Jackson’s children, Prince Michael and Paris, have voiced their desire to provide testimony to testify in the manslaughter trial of Dr Conrad Murray.
Prince, 14, and Paris, 13, have informed their grandmother Katherine of their intentions, but youngest sibling Blanket, 9, is deemed to young to withstand the rigors of the courtroom
In addition, the late King of Pop’s older sister, La Toya, advocates the children should take the witness stand. La Toya has long harbored the belief that Murray and other shadowy figures conspired to murder her legendary brother and that Murray is being made the patsy, a la, Lee Harvey Oswald with the John Kennedy assassination. She believes their testimony will go a long way in securing a conviction of Murray.
Katherine, the beloved matriarch of the Jackson clan, is said to be against the children taking the stand.
“Katherine is resisting the move, because she knows how traumatic it would be for them, but both Prince Michael and Paris have said they want to tell the jury what they saw on the day their father died,” according to media reports.
Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket were all included on a potential witness list passed out to the jurors in an attempt to ascertain their familiarity with the family. Also listed were siblings Janet, La Toya, Jermaine, Marlon, Rebbie, Tito and Randy as well as parents, Katherine and Joe Jackson.
As the source close to the Jackson clan claim that “Prince and Paris adored Doctor Murray and thought he was a godsend for their father. It was only after their father’s death that they formed a subsequent opinion of him. Both Prince and Paris could take the stand and wind up providing evidence that supports the doctor.”
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, two months before his 51st birthday. Murray is charged with Jackson’s death, prosecutors purport, by giving the pop icon lethal doses of the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid at the singer’s Bel Air mansion and not properly monitoring him.
–terry shropshire
