" POISENED BY PUBLICITY " UNLESS ISOLATED

In an 11th hour appeal, lawyers for Michael

Jackson's doctor sought to delay the trial ...

arguing they would be "poisoned" by publicity

unless they were kept isolated.



On Friday, lawyers for Murray filed an emergency

petition asking for the trial to be delayed.

Conrad Murray, is urging a judge to delay his

upcoming trial so that lawyers can revisit the

issue of sequestering the jury.



A Los Angeles County judge denied Murray's

lawyer's request to have the jury sequestered

during a hearing in August.



The attorneys are requesting that the trial

be delayed until the issue of jury sequestration

is decided by an appeals court.



In the 28-page petition, the attorneys questioned

a recent ruling by Los Angeles County Superior Court

Judge Michael E.Pastor, saying he did not fully

realize the amount of media attention the trial

was going to get.



Opening statements are set for September 27.



Murray's attorneys, Nareg Gourjian and Edward Chernoff,

had contended, in court papers, that ,



"there is reasonable expectation that Dr. Murray's trial

will be the most publicized in history."



http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/09/03/california.murray.case/