Jackson death investigator grilled by defense

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A defense attorney today attacked the notes and recollections of a coroner's investigator who collected medication and other items from the bedroom of Michael Jackson after he died.

Ed Chernoff, lead attorney for defendant Dr. Conrad Murray, questioned whether a "substantial number of mistakes" had been made during the coroner's inquiry into Jackson's death in June 2009.

Chernoff said during cross-examination that investigator Elissa Fleak didn't note that she had found a bottle of propofol inside an IV bag until March 2011, nearly two years after the singer's death.

Fleak denied doing anything wrong but acknowledged she updated her notes with the key detail just a few months ago and destroyed her original notes from the crime scene.

The lawyer questioned whether she heard the detail in testimony by bodyguard Alberto Alvarez, who testified during a preliminary hearing in January that he saw the bottle inside the IV bag. He repeated the detail for jurors last week and said Murray told him to put the IV bag into another bag before calling 911.