The legal team also requested to put on hold the commencement of jury selection on September 8 until the issue of seclusion of the trial is concluded.
Lawyers are challenging the ruling by Judge Michael Pastor in which he expressed faith in jurors' ability to ignore publicity about the high profile case.
Attorneys Nareg Gourjian and Edward Chernoff said in their 28-page petition that jurors would be poisoned by publicity unless they were placed in a hotel during Murray's trial.
They acknowledged that their demand is very unusual but insists that Jackson's legacy as one of the biggest celebrities in the entertainment world would attract extensive news coverage.
According to the lawyers, jurors will be inundated with reports in supermarkets, bars, gyms and coffee shops and on the Internet.
"News organizations have planned sets overlooking the courthouse as if they were preparing for the Rose Bowl," the attorneys said in the petition.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office declined to comment on the petition.
Four pages of the appeal were devoted to the recently concluded Casey Anthony trial in Florida and the CNN commentary of Nancy Grace, who attorneys said campaigned for Anthony's conviction
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