Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is widely expected to announce his candidacy for governor, said Friday that his office's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement has launched an independent investigation into physicians implicated in police investigations of pop star Michael Jackson's death.
Brown said in a news release: "Responding to a request from the (Los Angeles Police Department), agents from my office will investigate several physicians whose names have come up in the course of the Michael Jackson death inquiry. This investigation is at its earliest stages, and no conclusions can be drawn at this point."
The attorney general's office had already been assisting the LAPD with the investigation.
The Los Angeles County coroner declared Jackson's death a homicide Friday, according to news reports, and investigators have looked into whether Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray caused the death by administering excess anti-anxiety and sleep medication to the singer.
"The drugs propofol and lorazepam were found to be the primary drugs responsible for Mr. Jackson's death," the coroner's office was quoted as saying.
Source Sac Bee
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