Michael Jackson\'s doctor becomes focus of manslaughter probe

Michael Jackson\'s personal physician was identified as a suspect in the Los Angeles Police Department\'s manslaughter investigation into the pop star\'s death, according to court records filed yesterday in Houston, based on a report The Los Angeles Times.



A pair of search warrants filed in Harris County District Court stated that investigators were looking for \"items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense.\"



The searches, which were carried out Wednesday at Murray\'s medical clinic and storage unit in Houston, gave authorities access to billing records, medication orders, shipping receipts, billing receipts, medical records and \"implements and instruments used in the commission of a crime.\"



The court records were the first public confirmation by police that Murray was a focus of their probe. Detectives previously had interviewed Murray, but had declined to identify him as a suspect.



\"I do not know what they are looking for, and I can\'t possibly tell you how anything they took in any way connects with the death of Michael Jackson,\" said Murray\'s attorney, Edward Chernoff, who was present at both of the searches.



Chernoff has said that his client did not give Jackson any narcotics or other medication that \"should have\" caused his death.