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Michael Jackson's doctor plans to seek his day in court Friday — whether or not he's been charged in the singer's death.
After waiting all week to face a likely charge of manslaughter, Dr. Conrad Murray and his frustrated legal team plan to surrender at a Los Angeles courthouse.
"We are going to be at the courthouse at 1:30 (p.m.) for his surrender," said Miranda Sevcik, spokeswoman for Murray's legal team. "We see no reason to perpetuate the arbitrary situation any longer."
The legal gamesmanship follows several days of negotiations in which Murray's lawyers tried to arrange with prosecutors for the Houston doctor to surrender for booking and arraignment.
"We are going to be at the courthouse at 1:30 (p.m.) for his surrender," said Miranda Sevcik, spokeswoman for Murray's legal team. "We see no reason to perpetuate the arbitrary situation any longer."
The legal gamesmanship follows several days of negotiations in which Murray's lawyers tried to arrange with prosecutors for the Houston doctor to surrender fornment.
Those plans were derailed by haggling between prosecutors and law enforcement officials over whether the physician should be arrested or allowed to turn himself in.
Whether the tactic forces prosecutors to file a criminal complaint or not, it has the potential to create a spectacle that, so far, has not marked the investigation into the singer's death.
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