Authorities searched the Houston dispensary of Michael Jackson's doctor Wednesday, and his advocate said they were gluttonous affirmation of manslaughter.

Dr. Conrad Murray had been interviewed by badge as a attestant to the pop star's death, but has not been advised a suspect. Badge accept said little about the probe, neither acknowledging or abstinent the achievability of bent charges.

Los Angeles badge and agents with the U.S. Biologic Administration Administration went through the Armstrong Medical Dispensary on Wednesday for about 2 1/2 hours. Authorities said they were analytic for documents.

"The chase accreditation accustomed law administration to chase for and appropriate items, including documents, they believed constituted affirmation of the breach of manslaughter," Ed Chernoff, Murray's attorney, said in a account acquaint on his law firm's Web site. The Harris County accreditation charcoal closed and bare to the media.

Chernoff said agents larboard with "a argumentative image" of a computer adamantine drive and 21 documents.

Houston badge amidst the architecture as the board went axial at about 10:30 CDT. DEA backer Violet Szeleczky said about 20 bodies were in the Armstrong Medical Clinic, including employees.

A adjacency army aggregate to watch the arrest until agents larboard afterwards 1 p.m. and Houston badge told reporters and the assemblage to leave the clinic's property.

Murray has emerged as a axial amount in the analysis into Jackson's death. The doctor, who had been afresh assassin by Jackson, was with him in his abode and approved to animate him.

Szeleczky said the agents were attractive for Murray's records, not drugs, but wouldn't specify further. She beneath to say how the chase accompanying to Jackson's death.

Meanwhile, board in California are additionally approved added advice from Murray, according to Chernoff.

In a account on his armpit backward Tuesday, Chernoff said board from the Los Angeles County coroner's appointment accept asked for medical annal in accession to those already provided by Murray.

"The coroner wants to bright up the account of death; we allotment that goal," Chernoff said in his statement. "Based on Dr. Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson's aftermost days, he should not be a ambition of bent charges."

Although Chernoff has said the doctor didn't accord the pop brilliant any drugs that contributed to his death, Murray has nonetheless accustomed absorption from those affronted over the singer's death.

"Dr. Murray was the aftermost doctor continuing back Michael Jackson died and it seems all the acerbity is directed against him," Chernoff said. "Dr. Murray is balked by abrogating and generally erroneous media reports, he has to airing about 24-7 with a bodyguard. He can't accomplish his practice. He can't go to assignment because he is addled no amount area he goes."

It's still not accepted what acquired Jackson's afterlife at age 50. The pop brilliant went into cardiac arrest in his bedchamber and Murray performed CPR while an ambulance was called, according to Murray's lawyers.

An dissection was conducted but after-effects are not accepted until abutting week. The Jackson ancestors had a additional dissection performed and those after-effects additionally are pending.

Investigators accept begin the able analgesic propofol in Jackson's home, according to a actuality with ability of the investigation. The actuality is not accustomed to allege about and requested anonymity. The admiral are alive with the Biologic Administration Administration and California advocate general's appointment to actuate how the medications got there.

Police detectives accept already announced to Murray alert — already anon afterwards the singer's afterlife and afresh two canicule later. Badge board say Murray is allied in their investigation. The Las Vegas-based doctor is additionally accountant in California, Nevada and Texas.

Sevcik, Chernoff's spokeswoman, said the account with coroner's board ability appear Friday. Murray is currently in Las Vegas and Chernoff would be speaking to board after the doctor actuality present.

There was no assurance of action Wednesday at Murray's medical offices in Las Vegas. Doors were bound and curtains fatigued at his practice, Global Cardiovascular Associates.

There was no actual almanac of a chase accreditation for Murray's medical appointment or his Las Vegas home, said Esther McElhaney, a Las Vegas cloister spokeswoman.

But she said badge would accept 10 canicule to accommodate a address to a adjudicator in Las Vegas Justice Cloister about any items or abstracts bedeviled if they had searched either area recently.

The DEA has assisted in probes into added celebrity deaths, including the 2007 balance afterlife of Anna Nicole Smith as able-bodied as that of amateur Heath Ledger.

Jean Rosenbluth, a University of Southern California law professor, says the agency's captivation in the Jackson case suggests authorities are attractive into whether drugs came from out of state.

Federal biologic regulations accommodate controls over whether and how frequently a doctor can address prescriptions over the phone, and DEA agents could be attractive to see if these rules were broken, Rosenbluth said.