?Dr Con­rad Mur­ray was bailed for US$75,000 af­ter plead­ing not guilty to "un­law­ful­ly, and with­out mal­ice, killing Michael Joseph Jack­son."

A judge must de­cide whether to pro­ceed to tri­al. A con­vic­tion could bring a jail term of up to four years, the BBC re­port­ed. Jack­son died at his home last June at the age of 50. His death was ruled as homi­cide, main­ly caused by the anaes­thet­ic propo­fol. Mur­ray, who was born in Grena­da, grew up in Trinidad. A cock­tail of drugs – in­clud­ing seda­tives Mi­da­zo­lam and Di­azepam, the painkiller Li­do­caine and the stim­u­lant Ephedrine –al­so were de­tect­ed in his body, a coro­ner con­firmed.

Pros­e­cu­tors had filed one count of in­vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter. Af­ter en­ter­ing his plea, Dr Mur­ray sur­ren­dered his pass­port. The next hear­ing has been set for April 5. Mem­bers of Michael Jack­son's fam­i­ly – fa­ther Joe, moth­er Kather­ine, broth­ers Jer­maine, Tito, Jack­ie and Randy and sis­ter La­Toya – were in court for the hear­ing. When asked by a re­porter as he ar­rived what he thought about Mur­ray be­ing charged with in­vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, Jer­maine said sim­ply: "It's not enough."

Sev­er­al of the singer's fans had shout­ed "jus­tice for Michael" as Mur­ray ar­rived at court. He had been hired to be Jack­son's per­son­al physi­cian last spring as the singer pre­pared for his come­back con­certs. (BBC)