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(AP) — LAS VEGAS – A Nevada judge said Tuesday she’ll decide
after a closed-door review with a Los Angeles prosecutor and
police detective whether to release documents stemming from
search warrants issued in Las Vegas in the Michael Jackson investigation.

Clark County District Court Judge Valerie Adair did not say
when she would make her ruling, but it could come Wednesday
if she decides to release redacted documents.

Lawyers representing The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times,
TMZ Productions Inc. of Los Angeles and Stephens Media LLC,
the parent company of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, are
seeking the release of all search warrant documents relating
to the Jackson case in Nevada.

Adair wanted to review the reasons for sealing the search
warrants executed July 28 at Dr. Conrad Murray’s home,
office and a storage unit in Las Vegas, and on Aug. 11 at a
Las Vegas pharmacy where authorities say Murray legally
bought the powerful sedative propofol.

Las Vegas attorney Donald Campbell said the state never
showed why the warrants should be sealed and never gave a
reason to keep them sealed.

“The sealed court records-search warrants and
affidavits-involve a matter of great public concern: the
investigation into the death of one of the world’s most
popular entertainers,” Campbell and partner J. Colby
Williams said in an application filed Oct. 7.

The 50-year-old Jackson died June 25 at a rented Los Angeles
mansion. Murray, a Las Vegas cardiologist hired to be the
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The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Jackson’s death
a homicide, caused primarily by propofol and another sedative.

Murray has not been charged with a crime but is the subject
of what Clark County Deputy District Attorney David Schubert
termed a homicide investigation.

Schubert said in a court filing Monday that Los Angeles
police have served numerous search warrants in the
investigation, and Nevada wouldn’t oppose releasing
records containing information already made public after
raids in Houston and Los Angeles.

Records made public after those raids show Murray told
investigators he gave in to Jackson’s demands for
propofol to help him sleep.

Schubert, however, said those documents were released
“through error and/or miscommunication.”

Authorities are concerned that releasing more warrants might
harm or undermine the ongoing investigation.

Murray’s lawyer, Edward Chernoff of Houston, said
Tuesday through a spokeswoman, Miranda Sevcik, that he does
not oppose having additional warrant documents made public.