Conrad Murray

Conrad Robert Murray (born February 19, 1953) was the defendant in the Califonia v. Murray manslaughter trial. He was the personal physician of Michael Jackson at the time of the singer's death in 2009. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly administering the anesthetic drug improperly that led to Jackson's death and served two years of a four-year prison sentence. He was represented by attorneys Ed Chernoff, J. Michael Flanagan and Nareg Gourjian.

Education
In 1973, Murray moved to Houston, Texas, where his father worked, to attend Texas Southern University, and graduated Magna cum laude with a degree in pre-med and biological sciences. Murray continued his education at Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tennessee, the same school his father attended, and the first school in the Southern United States for African Americans. He began his internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Murray completed it at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Arizona.