First week of Jackson trial ends

Two paramedics were expected to testify Friday that Michael Jackson appeared already dead when they got to his LA home, closing out the first week of his doctor's long-awaited manslaughter trial.

The accounts will add to those of a string of witnesses about the "panicked" efforts to save the King of Pop's life two years ago -- and his doctor Conrad Murray's alleged efforts to cover his tracks.

On Thursday a former bodyguard told how Murray scrambled to hide equipment, including a "milky white" liquid near the star's bed, minutes after he died at his rented Los Angeles mansion on June 25, 2009.

Amid frantic efforts to save Jackson's life, the pop star's daughter Paris screamed "Daddy!" as she saw Murray pumping the chest of her father, whose eyes were open but who appeared to have already died.

Murray is accused of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, allegedly by giving him an overdose of the powerful sedative propofol, which the singer referred to as "milk" to help him sleep.

The physician could be jailed for up to four years over Jackson's death at his mansion in the plush Holmby Hills district of LA, where the star was rehearsing for a series of comeback shows in London.

The five-week trial opened Tuesday, when prosecutors laid out their case that Murray was guilty of "gross negligence," while the doctor's lawyers said the star caused his own death by taking extra drugs without Murray's knowledge.

On the first day, jurors saw chilling images of Jackson's dead body on a gurney and heard a haunting audio recording of the heavily drugged singer talking on the phone only weeks before his death.

On Wednesday, personal assistant Michael Williams recalled the last rehearsal on the night of June 24. "He was in good spirits," he said, adding of Jackson's last time on stage: "I thought it was amazing."

But then he and a series of witnesses told of the chaos the following day.

On Thursday bodyguard Alberto Alvarez said Murray ordered him to help remove vials and a saline bag from an intravenous (IV) drip stand by the star's bed, even before he had called 911 for emergency paramedics.

"While I was standing at the foot of the bed, he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials, and then he reached out to me and said: 'Here, put these in a bag,'" Alvarez told the LA Superior Court on the trial's third day.

"There was what appeared to me like a milky white substance. I recalled seeing it at the bottom of the bag," he added.

The court also heard the harrowing 911 call made by Alvarez at 12:20 pm that day, in which the emergency operator advised him to move Jackson's body from the bed onto the floor, because CPR needs to be performed on a firm surface.

Jackson's head of security Faheem Muhammad then came in, at which point Murray, a trained cardiologist, asked "if anyone knew CPR." Hearing this, "me and Faheem, we kinda looked at each other for a split second," said Alvarez.

Later Thursday, the singer's personal chef Kai Chase recounted how all three children sobbed and hugged as medics rushed to the house.

"The children were crying and screaming, and the next thing we did, we started hugging and we came together and we held hands and we started praying," she said.

On Friday paramedics Richard Senneff and Martin Blount were expected to confirm their testimony from pre-trial hearings in January that Jackson already appeared dead when they arrived at the mansion shortly after the 911 call.

Jackson was eventually pronounced dead at the nearby Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center some two and a half hours later, at 2:46 pm.