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UPDATE: After meeting privately with Jackson's family, the coroner's office is tentatively scheduled to announce its findings to the media at 3 p.m. PT. We will be streaming live from the press conference outside the family's Encino, Calif., home.
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The autopsy on Michael Jackson has begun, but whether or not they find something conclusive to determine the cause of death is anybody's guess.
At a press conference, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office spokesman confirmed the department's chief medical examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran will conduct the examination along with an assistant pathologist and results should be expected within the next few hours "depending on what the doctors need to do and how fast they work." Once done, the King of Pop's body will be released to his family.
The spokesman also said he had no knowledge that Jackson was administered a Demerol injection around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, shortly before going into cardiac arrest, as several media outlets are now reporting.
Toxicology tests can usually take up to six weeks. But the coroner's office said it will "definitely be expedited" and the findings will still take a week and up to three weeks.
(Originally published June 26, 2009, at 8:50 a.m. PT)
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