More former girlfriends are expected to testify Tuesday in the manslaughter trial against Dr. Conrad Murray, including one who claims she was on the phone with the physician when Michael Jackson stopped breathing.
At the preliminary hearing in January, Houston cocktail waitress Sade Anding testified, "I didn't hear him (Murray) on the phone anymore … I heard commotion as if the phone was in a pocket or something. The noise was like (sound), and I heard coughing. And then I heard like mumbling of voices."
Nicole Alvarez, the mother of Murray's 7th child, is also expected to testify. In January, Alvarez, who lives in Santa Monica, testified that she received Murray's packages at the apartment they shared, but she didn't know the contents. Prosecutors allege the shipments contained propofol.
Murray reportedly met Alvarez, 29, at a Las Vegas nightclub.
On Monday, phone company officials testified Murray was busy on his cell phone between 10:45 a.m., when he is believed to have administered propofol to Jackson, and 11:56 a.m., when prosecutors say he interrupted a phone call after discovering Jackson had stopped breathing.
Former girlfriend Bridget Morgan testified Monday that she tried to call Murray on the day Jackson died but she didn't speak to him because "he didn't answer his telephone."
Doctors who tried to revive Jackson at UCLA Medical Center also took the stand, saying Murray never told them he gave the singer the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.
Medical examiners have determined Jackson, 50, died on June 25, 2009 from an overdose of propofol and sedatives.
Emergency doctors at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles said that Jackson was already dead when he arrived there.
Nevertheless, lengthy attempts were made to revive him before he was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m.
"My assessment when he arrived was that he was clinically dead," said emergency room doctor Richelle Cooper, who was on duty at the emergency room the night Jackson died.
Murray told doctors that he had given Jackson only the sedative lorazepam.
"Had Dr. Murray told you he had given 25 mg of propofol at 10:30, would it have altered your treatment of Michael Jackson?" asked defense attorney Michael Flanagan.
"No," answered Cooper.
"Would that have altered the result that happened to Michael Jackson?" Flanagan asked.
"As I said, Mr. Jackson died long before he became my patient," Cooper answered.
"Knowing more, it's still unlikely I could have done something different to him."
Later, the cardiologist called to emergency room when Jackson was admitted testified that Murray, "sounded desperate" and "looked devastated" in the hospital.
Dr. Thao Nguyen said Murray said to her and other doctors, "Do not give up easily. Please try to save his life."
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