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发表于 2011-11-4 01:21:14
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史上第一宗用异丙酚谋杀的案件，作案者是个男护士，被控一级谋杀，最后被判终身监禁。
专家认为迈克尔.杰克逊的案件和此案件很类同，受害者都是信任了不该信任的人。
Michael Jackson case has similarities to Gainesville murder case
By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer
Published: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7:29 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7:29 p.m.
Several Gainesville residents have a more than passing interest in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray for the death of pop star Michael Jackson through the use of the anesthetic propofol.
A Gainesville case involving the death of a young woman who was given the drug propofol was the first time someone had been tried for killing a person with the anesthetic.
Propofol killed a Gainesville Health and Fitness Center trainer in 2005 after it was illegally given to her by a former nurse who was desperate to date her and who had been giving her medicine to help her with headaches, authorities said.
That nurse, Oliver Travis O’Quinn, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2008 for the death of Michelle Herndon, 24, a University of Florida student from Live Oak.
“Within 48 hours of Michael Jackson’s death, we were contacted by the Los Angeles Police Department asking for information about our case,” said Spencer Mann, spokesman for the State Attorney’s Office. “They were interested in what our circumstances were with propofol with our defendant and our victim.”
Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death for allegedly dosing him with propofol as a sleep aid. Propofol is typically used to sedate surgery patients. Jackson died on June 25, 2009.
Both the prosecution and defense have presented their cases in the Jackson trial. The proceedings are set to resume Thursday.
O'Quinn had met Herndon a few months before her death after he became a roommate of one of her good friends. He was a nurse at Shands at the University of Florida and got the drug there, authorities said.
Assistant State Attorney James Colaw, who then was with the Eighth Circuit in Gainesville and prosecuted O’Quinn, said the Herndon case is still the only instance of someone being tried for murder by the use of propofol.
Colaw said that initially he viewed the use of propofol in Herndon case as unusual, adding he became shocked by it as he learned more about the drug.
“It is still not a controlled substance, so if Oliver O’Quinn had been caught with vials of propofol in his jacket, there is nothing illegal about that,” Colaw said. “It became apparent that, although largely unreported, the drug was being abused by doctors and people in the medical profession. Nobody knew to what extent.”
When Colaw heard that propofol was a factor in Jackson’s death, he said he couldn’t believe a doctor would have been so negligent to administer it in the setting of Jackson’s home and for the purpose it was being given.
Bruce Goldberger, UF professor and director of toxicology at the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine, was involved in the Herndon case and was contacted by authorities regarding the Michael Jackson case. Goldberger’s lab has conducted research on propofol.
Goldberger said he was surprised when he learned that Jackson was being given propofol for sleep because being under anesthesia is a different level of consciousness than being asleep.
He added that both the state and defense are using other drugs found in Jackson to simulate what occurred that night, which Goldberger characterized as junk science.
“It’s really absurd that a physician would use that drug to induce sleep. I was very surprised as well as very disturbed,” Goldberger said. “I’ve been following the case very carefully ... I think the case is absolutely very simple -- it’s clear Michael died from propofol intoxication.”
Gainesville Health and Fitness owner Joe Cirulli said as soon as the Jackson case started, the first thought in his mind was the propofol connection to Herndon.
“That caught my attention. I see the updates of the trial on the news. I learned a lot from Michelle’s situation and how that occurred. The means of death was the same, but the intent was different,” Cirulli said. “What a loss it was, to lose a girl like that. Michael Jackson trusted his doctor to be able to do things with him that were obviously very in-depth as far as putting things into his body. The similarity is, Michelle also trusted this individual to be able to help her with severe headaches. There was a level of trust they both had.” |
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