Expert rejects defence hypothesis in Jackson death trial

Michael Jackson was so heavily drugged in the hours before his death that he would have been incapable of self-administering the massive dose of propofol that killed him, a medical expert testified at the trial of Jackson’s doctor.

Dr Steven Shafer, who presented a number of possible scenarios for Jackson’s overdose, said one posed by Dr Conrad Murray’s defence – that the star gave himself the powerful anaesthetic – is “crazy”.