Police: "No Red Flag" in Questioning of Jackson's Doctor; Plus: Details on a Second Autopsy

Police have questioned Michael Jackson's personal physician and have found there to be "no red flag" in his account of the events leading to the singer's death, a source told the Los Angeles Times.

The LAPD has stated that Dr. Conrad Murray — a Las Vegas cardiologist who was scheduled to accompany Jackson on his upcoming U.K. tour dates — sat with police for three hours Saturday night. Police have said that he is not suspected of any wrongdoing and is cooperating with their investigation. Murray's attorney, Edward Chernoff, issued at statement after the meeting, saying that his client "is in no way a suspect and remains a witness to this tragedy."


A second autopsy has been performed at the request of Jackson's family, according to the L.A. Times, which could yield results much sooner than those of the L.A. coroner's office. (On Friday, the coroner deferred assigning an official cause of death until further testing could be completed, which could take four to six weeks.)

While most reports have indicated that Jackson went into cardiac arrest, the Associated Press is quoting a source who says that the cause of death appears to be a heart attack. The two conditions are not mutually exclusive, as a heart attack, the blocking of the arteries leading to the heart, can cause cardiac arrest, the cessation of the heartbeat.