Defence attacks Jackson coroner’s investigation

A DEFENCE attorney yesterday attacked the notes and recollections of a coroner’s investigator who collected medication and items from the bedroom of Michael Jackson after he died.

Ed Chernoff, lead attorney for defendant Dr Conrad Murray, questioned whether a “substantial number of mistakes” had been made during the coroner’s inquiry into Jackson’s death in June 2009.

Chernoff said during cross-examination that investigator Elissa Fleak did not note that she had found a bottle of propofol inside an IV bag until March 2011, nearly two years after the singer’s death.