After a grueling six-week trial that ended earlier this month in his conviction on involuntary manslaughter, Conrad Murray, the personal physician for Michael Jackson, was sentenced to four years in jail Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles. The prosecution had asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor for Murray to receive the maximum four years in jail, while the defense argued that Murray should have been given probation, as his medical license was revoked and he is hated across the world as the man who killed the world’s most beloved pop star.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! scored a bit of a coup last night with a Herman Cain interview just hours after a fourth woman came forward and accused the GOP candidate of sexual harassment. But Kimmel’s biggest accomplishment of the day may have been inadvertently duping some news outlets into believing that a character on his show, Jake Byrd — who was pretending to be an over-the-top Michael Jackson fan gathered for the verdict — was an actual Jackson fan performing an over-the-top celebration.

The fate of Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, has been decided. Watch the live verdict announcement below: Live streaming by Ustream

Closing arguments began this week in the Conrad Murray case, and Good Morning America brought in their “legal dream team” to assess the situation. Mediaite founder Dan Abrams and HLN’s Nancy Grace butted heads in their analysis of the case. “Nobody’s on trial because it’s not a crime to be awake. It’s a crime to be dead by having propofol shot into your dead body until all of your organs are saturated with a powerful, surgical anesthetic that is not to be used outside the operating room. Those guys didn’t know what they were talking about!” exclaimed Grace. “It’s actually not a crime to be putting drugs into a dead body,” Abrams snarkily rebutted. “But if you put it in a live body, that is a crime.”

Remember Court TV and the national obsession with high profile trials? For about a decade from O.J. Simpson to Scott Peterson and Natalee Holloway the country seemed to have an insatiable appetite for soap opera like details that slowly and painstakingly emerged day in and day out in courtrooms and from investigations around the country. Courthouses regularly became tent cities with media encampments at high profile trials. Some judges and lawyers (and witnesses ie. Kato Kaelin) became more recognizable than most movie stars. Sometimes, the cases addressed important issues like in the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh or assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian or most obviously, Bush v. Gore. Others were far more frivolous like Anna Nicole Smith‘s lawsuit or a random celebrity drunk driving or drug case. Multiple daily cable news shows hosted by the likes of Geraldo Rivera, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace (and me) covered the minutiae with analysis and debate from lawyers and participants.

During testimony in the Michael Jackson trial on Tuesday, Dr. Christopher Rogers–along with the jury, courtroom gallery, and anyone watching HLN–was shown a photo of a naked Michael Jackson (with his genitals censored) taken from his autopsy table on June 26, 2009. Do not click on the below video if you don’t want to see the disturbing image.

Dr. Conrad Murray is currently on trial for the wrongful death of Michael Jackson who died while under Murray’s care from an overdose of Propofol. The trial starts today and both sides have already made opening statements. Watch the live precedings below, courtesy of U Stream. (Note: The Live Feed will be active when the Court is in session)

On America Live this afternoon, Megyn Kelly played a disturbing voicemail from pop star Michael Jackson recorded on Conrad Murray‘s iPhone May 10th, 2009, six weeks before the singer’s death. “I hurt,” a barely comprehensible Jackson is heard saying. “You know, I hurt.”

Doctor Conrad Murray‘s trial continued yesterday with the jurors hearing testimony from the first security guard to be called to Michael Jackson‘s side by Murray. Alberto Alvarez told the court that Murray told him Jackson had a bad reaction, and asked him to hide a bag of medicine vials before calling the police.

Dr. Conrad Murray is currently on trial for the wrongful death of Michael Jackson who died while under Murray’s care from an overdose of Propofol. The trial starts today and both sides have already made opening statements. Watch the live precedings below, courtesy of U Stream. (Note: The Live Feed will be active when the Court is in session)

The trial of Conrad Murray continued yesterday with testimony from the Michael Jackson‘s head of security and personal assistant, recounting the scene at Neverland the day the star was found dead. The two described, in a consistent manner, according to Dan Abrams who ran down the day on Good Morning America earlier today, a frantic and suspicious scene.

Conrad Murray‘s trial kicked off to a grim start yesterday with a photo of Michael Jackson’s lifeless body stretched out on a hospital gurney, an eerie recording of Jackson, and tears all around. ”Prosecutors want to make the jurors realize that this is about Michael Jackson‘s gruesome death,” expounded legal analyst Dan Abrams, stopping by Good Morning America early this morning to run down day one.

Dr. Conrad Murray is currently on trial for the wrongful death of Michael Jackson who died while under Murray’s care from an overdose of Propofol. The trial starts today and both sides have already made opening statements. Watch the live precedings below, courtesy of U Stream.

Former counsel for Michael Jackson, Mark Geragos and Mediaite’s own Dan Abrams stopped by Good Morning America today to preview Doctor Conrad Murray‘s trail, set to start today. Murray has been charged in Jackson’s death, and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if found guilty. Proceedings will be televised and broadcast online and will play out as a somber final chapter in the media spectacle that was Jackson’s life.

TMZ reports the legal team defending Michael Jackson‘s doctor, Conrad Murray, have asked a judge to sequester the jury in the doctor’s manslaughter trial, arguing sequestration is the only way to protect Murray from “character assassination” at the hands of cable news analysts expected to cover the trial–in particular, they HLN’s Nancy Grace. “According to [...]