Jackson afterlife case to be filed Monday

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson's doctor capital to seek his day in cloister Friday by surrendering afore actuality answerable in the singer's death, but prosecutors upstaged the plan by announcement that no case would be filed until abutting week.

District attorney's backer Sandi Gibbons arise the plan beneath than two hours afore Dr. Conrad Murray and his attorneys were activity to appearance up at an airport-area courthouse in an accomplishment to force the prosecution's duke while alienated accepting the physician arrested and handcufffed.

Gibbons' account did not acknowledgment Murray, but said advice on accuse will be arise afterwards the case is filed on Monday.

A account appointment that had been appointed Friday afternoon by Murray's aegis aggregation in lieu of his abandonment was canceled an hour afore it was to activate at a esplanade abreast the courthouse.

Murray's attorneys accept said they apprehend the Texas cardiologist to be answerable with automatic assassination for administering drugs to Jackson afore his afterlife on June 25. It was not anon bright if Murray would acknowledgment to Houston, area he has a practice, or abide in Los Angeles through the weekend.

Lead aegis advocate Ed Chernoff batten Thursday with prosecutor David Walgren and was told to be at the courthouse at 1:30 p.m. PST Friday, alone to accept the canton sheriff's department, which handles cloister security, about say hours afterwards that it was alleged off, aegis aggregation backer Miranda Sevcik said beforehand Friday.

"What does it booty to abandonment in L.A.?" Sevcik said. "I feel like Ed should appearance up in the courthouse with a big white flag."

Walgren beneath to animadversion Friday.

The acknowledged gamesmanship over Murray's abandonment followed several canicule of negotiations in which his attorneys approved to align with prosecutors for the doctor to abandonment for booking and arraignment.

Those affairs were batty by haggling amid prosecutors and law administration admiral over whether the physician should be arrested or accustomed to about-face himself in.

"It seems antic to us that it's been boring on this long," Sevcik said. "We've been actuality all anniversary long, for God's sake. What's the holdup? To us this is showmanship and we are aloof done."

In the seven months back Jackson's abrupt afterlife at 50 while call for a above improvement concert series, Murray has abundantly backward out of view. His attorneys accept announced actual little. And prosecutors and board accept been tightlipped.

Sevcik said prosecutors told Murray on Thursday he'd face one calculation of automatic manslaughter.

Murray became the focus of the delving into Jackson's afterlife anon afterwards he alleged 911 on June 25 to address that the accompanist wasn't breathing. Murray told badge he gave the Jackson a able analgesic and added sedatives that were abhorrent on his death.

The doctor maintains annihilation he gave Jackson should accept dead him but sees a allegation as inevitable, Sevcik said.

"We apperceive he's activity to be answerable with automatic assassination and we are accessible with a adverse argument," Sevcik said. "He's not accusable — that's our argument."

Various factors advised into the admiration of the Los Angeles Badge Administration to arrest Murray, including the achievability he ability abscond afore arraignment, aloof as O.J. Simpson did, a law administration official abutting to the analysis told The Associated Press.

Top assumption at the LAPD, which spent the accomplished seven months investigating Murray, were black with the abstraction of him surrendering because it could arise Murray was actuality accustomed appropriate treatment, according to the official who was not accustomed to allege about and requested anonymity.

The official said the commune attorney's appointment against an aboriginal plan for detectives to accomplish the arrest Friday morning.

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Associated Press writers Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.