Conrad Murray's attorneys seek probation

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted in singer Michael Jackson's death, asked a Los Angeles court to sentence their client to probation.

In papers filed Wednesday ahead of Murray's sentencing next week, his attorneys said Jackson's death was "an atypical and isolated aberration to an otherwise exceptional medical career," the Los Angeles Times reported.

Murray, 58, was convicted Nov. 7 of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's 2009 fatal overdose of a surgical anesthetic. Trial judge Michael Pastor said the physician poses a danger to society and ordered him jailed pending sentencing Tuesday.

Murray's lawyers said the cardiologist had been punished severely by the loss of his medical license and livelihood, as well as being stigmatized and receiving death threats.

"Dr. Murray's life will never be the same. He will forever be stigmatized as the doctor responsible for the death of Michael Jackson," attorney Nareg Gourjian said in the court papers.

Prosecutors David Walgren and Deborah Brazil, in their court papers filed Wednesday, urged the judge to sentence Murray to four years in prison, the maximum allowed for involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors also asked that Murray be ordered to pay as restitution to Jackson's estate the $100 million the pop singer would have earned from concerts and $1.8 million for memorial service and funeral costs.