FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, file photo, Michael Jackson's former doctor Conrad Murray sits in a courtroom during his involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles. Lawyers for Murray and the California Attorney General's office notified a Los Angeles appeals court on Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013, that they were waiving oral arguments in the former cardiologist's appeal of his 2011 involuntary manslaughter conviction. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Pool, File)