It looks like the police are going to close the investigation in a couple of weeks and present the case to the L.A District Attorney. Probably around the 2nd-3rd week of October. Then it will be up to the DA to charge Dr. Murray with manslaughter right away or use a grand jury to review the evidence and issue out the indictments. There are several reasons to do this according to Radar Online,
"The grand jury meets in secret, and no one associated with the proceedings, including witnesses can discuss anything outside of the grand jury room."We also know that now the DA is using a grand jury to subpoena Nicole Alvarez, the girlfriend of Conrad Murray that was probably the location of where Dr. Murray was sleeping when treating Michael Jackson.
"More importantly, if Dr. Conrad Murray is indicted, there will be no preliminary hearing, and this is often done in high profile cases in Los Angeles. If an indictment is handed down, it goes straight to arraignment, and then to trial. The potential jury pool couldn't be tainted by saturated media coverage of a preliminary hearing."
Will the DA use the grand jury to indict Dr. Murray or will they issue charges right away. One thing that might give the DA motivation to issue charges right away is that they consider him a "definate flight risk" according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
I am now holding 1/3 of the positions that I was before, waiting for the DA to issue charges before the end of the year. I think they will and they are just using the grand jury to close all the holes left in the investigation. They do not want to issue indictments and then get blindsided by the Dr. Conrad Murray's testimony at court just because she was being "uncooperative."
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