Debbie Franklin, a 48-year-old mother of two from Temple City, Calif., broke her silence on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and described the nine hours of excruciating deliberations that led to Dr. Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter conviction Monday.
She said the panel of seven men and five women did not immediately agree Friday, their first day hashing out the evidence.
“We took a vote and it was not unanimous, so we said let’s think about it over the weekend and talk about it on Monday,” she told GMA. “It was stressful. It was a lot of work. Yelling, everybody was talking.”
“The three biggest things for us were the 911 call, not calling 911. That was a big issue, and not having the medical equipment in the room to put somebody under sedation and leaving the room,” Franklin said. “Even if Michael Jackson injected himself, which I don’t think we believed, but we felt, even if he did, that wouldn’t have mattered because Conrad Murray brought the situation there,” she said. “He was the doctor. He was in charge.”
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