The father of Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, is working on a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Conrad Murray claiming that he was drinking at a strip club only hours before injecting Michael Jackson with a lethal dose of drugs. For his part, Dr. Murray denies both the story that he was seen drinking at a strip club hours before the events that led to Michael Jackson's death. Further, he contends that Michael Jackson likely self-injected some drug while not in his presence.

A wrongful death suit requires a lot lower standard of evidence than a criminal conviction case, so the possibility of Joe Jackson winning this case could be better than a criminal case where lawyers for Dr. Conrad Murray might be able to raise enough issues of doubt such as the self injection claim.