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Dr. Conrad Murray's trial began with the Defense Attorney showing a picture of a dead Michael Jackson lying on a gurney with his eyes closed, mouth open and tape between his lips and nose. REUTERS

The trial of Conrad Murray, the iconic pop singer Michael Jackson's personal doctor who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, started on Tuesday. The image of Jackson's dead body and a voice recording of his slurred speech before his death were released to the jury.

During the opening statement, prosecutors portrayed Murray as an incompetent physician and a reckless caretaker of Jackson for he had purportedly given Jackson an overdose of lethal anesthetic without adequate safeguards and left the singer abandoned and dying.

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