An appellate court decided not to revisit the case

Feb 14, 2014 13:54 GMT  ·  By

Michael Jackson's former physician tried to appeal for a rehearing in the case where he is accused of involuntary man-slaughter that led to the death of the pop star. However, he was denied a rehearing after the Supreme Court ruled his conviction was in accordance with the law.

Billboard reports that an appellate court is now refusing to grant Conrad Murray a rehearing which his lawyers tried to get for him.

His legal team made an appearance on Thursday in front of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, but was denied a rehearing when the court issued a brief ruling that corrected clerical and grammatical errors in the opinion it gave last month to deny Murray's appeal.

The court document cut all hopes for a rehearing when it concluded briefly, “Appellant's petition for rehearing is denied.”

Murray, who has already spent two years in jail for the death of singer Michael Jackson in 2009, had made an appeal to the court, but last month the court unanimously upheld the decision he received.

When he was put on the stand, Murray alleged that Michael killed himself by giving himself the injection. Last month, when he again appeared before a judge, his legal team claimed that the judge who oversaw the trial made some mistakes, such as excluding jurors from hearing key evidence and not sequestering them.

The court decided at the time that there was sufficient substantial evidence of his guilt in the singer's demise.

Murray was convicted in 2011 for the involuntary man-slaughter of Michael Jackson after it was concluded that he gave the artist a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol.

Jackson was taking medication at the time as he was preparing for a series of comeback concerts under the name “This Is It.”