His attorney argued Murray should remain free until sentencing, noting he had family obligations. "There is no reason to remand him under these circumstances," he said. 
 
 As Pastor was giving his order, a bailiff handcuffed Murray behind his back while he was sitting in his seat. 
 
 “This is not a crime involving a mistake of judgment,” Pastor said. “This is a crime where the end result was the death of a human being. That factor demonstrates rather dramatically that the public should be protected.” 
 
 A judge on Monday ordered Dr. Conrad Murray to jail, just a few minutes after a jury found him guilty in the death of Michael Jackson. 
 
 Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for causing the pop icon's 2009 death by a powerful surgical anesthetic. 
 
 The verdict against Dr. Conrad Murray comes after a jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about nine hours over two days. The 58-year-old cardiologist, who was charged with the lowest possible homicide offense, faces a maximum sentence of four years in state prison and a minimum sentence of probation. 
 
 Murray now also faces the probable loss of his medical license. California authorities already suspended his right to practice, but medical boards in Nevada and Texas agreed to wait to evaluate licenses he holds in their states until after the criminal case. 
 
 Over four weeks, prosecutors painted Murray as a deceptive and incompetent doctor who abandoned his medical judgment in complying with Jackson's request to be given a surgical anesthetic to put him to sleep. 
 
 Witnesses testified to many egregious medical missteps -– giving propofol in an unmonitored setting, fumbling at basic resuscitation, keeping no records –- failures that experts said directly led to Jackson's overdose death. 
 
 As his famed patient stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest under the influence of propofol, jurors were told, the doctor chatted on the phone and sent and received emails and text messages. And in the crucial moments after he discovered the singer had stopped breathing, he delayed calling for help and lied to paramedics and emergency doctors, witnesses said. 
 
 Central to the government's case were the doctor's own words from a police interview two days after Jackson's death. In the 2-1/2-hour tape, Murray admitted to giving the singer the propofol -– caving in after Jackson repeatedly begged for it, he said -– as well as two other drugs earlier in the day. 
 
 Admissions in the interview were enough evidence of the doctor's guilt, witnesses said. But the prosecution's star witness also said levels of the drug found during an autopsy showed Murray lied about how much propofol he administered. Dr. Steven Shafer, a renowned anesthesiologist and propofol expert, said the only plausible scenario was that Murray left a large drip of the anesthetic running into Jackson's blood after he was dead. 
 
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 Dr. Conrad Murray left the Los Angeles County jail under sheriff's escort, avoiding reporters and Michael Jackson fans waiting for his release early Monday. 
 
 Murray, who served two years of a four-year sentence for causing Michael Jackson's death, was driven away in a sheriff's car for the "safety and security" of the jail, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. 
 
 The handful of Jackson fans gathered outside the jail accused the Los Angeles County sheriff of showing favoritism to Murray by slipping him out of the jail through a back exit, instead of the door where freed prisoners normally leave. 
 
 Murray, who the sheriff's spokesman described as an exemplary inmate, was kept away from the general inmate population during his two years in the jail. He was also allowed to have liberal use of a telephone inside his cell during his last year. 
 
 Murray's lawyer told reporters outside the jail that he would try to get his medical licenses reinstated in California, Texas and Nevada so he can resume the medical career interrupted by his conviction on the involuntary manslaughter in 2011. 
 
 A jury concluded after a two-month trial that Murray's negligence led to Jackson's death from an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol. 
 
 The cardiologist, who was hired to serve as the pop icon's personal doctor for his comeback tour in 2009, told investigators he gave Jackson nightly infusions of propofol to treat his intractable insomnia for two months so he could rest for rehearsals. 
 
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 Prosecutors argued that his negligence included leaving Jackson unmonitored and unattended while the powerful anesthetic was being pumped into his vein through an IV drip. 
 
 Deputy District Attorney David Walgren, arguing for the maximum four years in jail, said Murray was "playing Russian roulette with Michael Jackson's life every single night," by using propofol to put him to sleep in "a reckless, obscene manner." 
 
 Murray's lawyers unsuccessfully argued that Jackson self-administered the drug while Murray was out of his bedroom. 
 
 He remained unremorseful during his two years in jail. 
 
 "My entire approach may not have been an orthodox approach, but my intentions were good," Murray told CNN's Anderson Cooper interview last April. 
 
 He said his intentions were to wean Jackson from propofol. He said he succeeded in eliminating propofol from his insomnia treatment three days before Jackson's death. 
 
 "I explained to Michael that this is an artificial way of considering sleep. It was basically sedation, minimal sedation," he told Cooper. 
 
 Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor imposed the maximum sentence on Murray, even though the doctor was technically eligible for probation. 
 
 Pastor, in a 30-minute speech explaining his sentence, cited Murray's "pattern of deceit and lies. That pattern was to assist Dr. Murray." 
 
 Jackson died "not because of an isolated one-off occurrence or incident," Pastor said. "He died because of a totality of circumstances which are directly attributable to Dr. Murray ... because of a series of decisions that Dr. Murray made." 
 
 Murray, he said, became involved in "a cycle of horrible medicine." 
 
 Jackson family members and fans have complained that Murray should have been prosecuted for second degree murder -- not manslaughter.
– Moments after his guilty verdict, Dr. Conrad Murray was ordered held without bail and escorted from the courtroom in handcuffs, the Los Angeles Times reports. "Dr. Murray's reckless conduct" is a threat to public safety, said Judge Michael Pastor. "This is not a crime involving a mistake of judgment. This is a crime where the end result was the death of a human being." A Los Angeles jury found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter today in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson. One bit of good news for Murray: Jail officers will consider him a "keep away inmate" in an effort to protect him behind bars, TMZ reports. In other words, Murray will get his own cell, shower alone, and won't be allowed to mingle with other prisoners. The doctor's lonely spell will be broken on November 29 for sentencing. The Times notes that he faces up to 4 years in state prison and will probably lose his California medical license. (Read about testimony that Murray gave Jackson a propofol dose 40 times higher than the doctor claimed.)