California medical board seeking Conrad Murray's suspension

Conrad Murray may be out on bail and still able to practise medicine but the California medical board is seeking his suspension.

The board filed court papers seeking Murray's ban from the practise of medicine as a condition of his bail – and pending the outcome of his criminal trial.

Murray, meanwhile, walked out on bail with his ability to practise intact but was banned by a judge today from inducing anaesthesia. Judge Keith L. Schwartz, in setting a $75,000 bail, told Murray: "I don't want you sedating people."

Murray has pled not guilty to the charge of involuntary manslaughter in the officially declared homicide of Michael Jackson, a patient in his care. Jackson died on June 25 from a lethal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol and other medications administered by Murray.

The board meanwhile cited Murray as a "danger to the public" and stated in its papers obtained by TMZ that the presumption of innocence did not apply to the conditions of bail in this case. It stated that Murray displayed "utter disregard for the care and well-being of the persons entrusted to his care" and elsewhere, that Murray used his medical licence to "perpetrate his crime".

His attorney, Ed Chernoff told the courts: "He'll be back in Vegas this week, he'll open his medical practice."