Kenneth Ortega

Kenneth Ortega was a prosecution witness in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Conrad Murray. Ortega was the first witness to testify during the trial. He testified that some of the days before Michael Jackson's death, Jackson was energetic and enuthsiastic during rehearsal's for Jackson's upcoming "This Is It" tour. However, an email that Ortega sent on June 20, 2009, 5 days before Michael Jackson's death, decribed Michael Jackson not feeling well at rehearsal less than a week before his death. Ortega sent the email to Randy Philips, the CEO of AEG, the concert promoter, and in the email Ortega descibed Jackson as "quite weak and fatigued" and in need of "immediate physical nurturing." Ortega was asked by the prosecution to read aloud in court while he was being direct-examined by prosecutor David Walgren.