The Michael Jackson Trial

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BREAKING NEWS

Jacko 'rushed to hospital'

By SUN ONLINE REPORTER

MICHAEL Jackson is this afternoon believed to have been rushed to hospital in the US.

The 46-year-old is reported by Sky News to being treated in an emergency room for an undisclosed condition.

Jackson's lawyer Thomas Mesereau said his client was "very, very ill", according to US website The Drudge Report.

His trial - at a court in California - continues.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005071820,00.html

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Michael Jackson Leaves Hospital

Jackson Leaves Shortly After Doctor Says He Is Under Observation

SANTA MARIA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2005 — Shortly after a hospital announcement saying he remained under observation for "persistent viral symptoms," Michael Jackson left Marian Medical Center, two sources inside the facility told ABC News.

One of the sources, a hospital visitor, saw Jackson being escorted out of the building by a hospital administrator.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Michae...story?id=506739

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In secret grand jury testimony, Jackson aides backed claims made by teen accuser and family

FEBRUARY 17--While the sexual molestation case against Michael Jackson relies heavily on the lurid and highly detailed accounts provided by the alleged teenage victim and his younger brother, a Santa Barbara grand jury last year heard testimony from other witnesses--several of whom worked closely with the embattled singer--that appears to corroborate many key aspects of the children's accounts of their troubling relationship with Jackson.

However, in what would be considered a plus for the defense camp, no witness--with the exception of the accuser and his brother--testified to ever seeing Jackson act inappropriately toward children.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/michaeljackso...51jackson1.html

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Jackson's TV Interviews Are Evidence -Prosecutors

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's "admissions" in a pair of TV interviews that he shared his bedroom with young boys help prove him guilty of child molestation and should be shown to jurors at his trial, prosecutors argued in court papers released on Thursday.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story....0&w=RTR&coview=

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Here We Go Round the Barber's Pole

Everything you never wanted to know about Michael Jackson's Johnson.

By Dana Stevens

Updated Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, at 2:50 PM PT

Between last night's tawdry ABC Prime Time Live special chronicling Michael Jackson's "special friendships" with a series of young boys over the years (including former child stars Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin); the far more thoughtful documentary Michael Jackson's Secret Childhood, airing throughout the month on VH1; and today's release of 1,903 pages of testimony from last year's grand jury proceedings on the Smoking Gun Web site, we're getting into a weird cultural area, Jackson-wise. Not that our relationship to the pop star was ever what you'd call wholesome, but I, for one, never thought I'd be sipping my morning coffee while reading about Michael Jackson's striped penis. According to a detective who investigated the 1993 molestation case that Jackson settled out of court, the singer's private parts are easily identifiable because of the "brown circles," a result of twice-weekly skin bleaching, that make his world-famous wing-wang resemble a "barber's pole."

http://www.slate.com/id/2113461/

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Mystery Witness Emerges in Jackson Case: Sources: Woman Worked for Lawyer Representing Jackson's Accuser's Mother in Earlier Case

By JIM AVILA and EILEEN MURPHY

Feb. 25, 2005 -

...ABC News has been told exclusively by sources in the case that the witness is a paralegal who worked for the attorney representing the accuser's mother when their family sued JC Penney and won a $137,500 settlement in October 2001.

...These sources say the paralegal has claimed to the Jackson defense team that Jane Doe, as the accuser's mother is known in court papers to protect her son's anonymity, lied under oath and fabricated the charges against JC Penney security guards

...And, they say, the paralegal claimed to the defense team that Jane Doe told her she coached her son to lie during his deposition against JC Penney.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/LegalCenter/...d=532585&page=1

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Teen Accuser Sez He know More ABout Sex than Michael Jackson

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/michaeljackso...ksonsexed1.html

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Judge in Jackson Case Assures There Is Order in His Court

By JOHN M. BRODER

Published: February 28, 2005

SANTA MARIA, Calif., Feb. 27 - Nobody who knows Judge Rodney S. Melville well was surprised at how crisply the selection of the jury in the Michael Jackson case went last week.

...He is known as a demanding courtroom taskmaster who does not tolerate delay, rudeness or challenges to his authority. When Mr. Jackson showed up late for his arraignment early last year, Judge Melville scolded him harshly: "Mr. Jackson, you have started out on the wrong foot with me. I want to advise you that I will not put up with that. It's an insult to the court. You must be on time."

You can read more here:

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/28/national/28j...artner=homepage

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  After the nearly three-hour opening by the prosecutor, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau. Jr. went on the attack, saying the mother of the accuser fraudulently claimed to many people that she was destitute and that her son needed money for chemotherapy. In truth, he said, the boy's father was a member of a union that covered his medical bills.

Mesereau said the mother went to comedian Jay Leno for money and Leno was so suspicious that he called Santa Barbara police to tell them he had been contacted and "something was wrong. They were looking for a mark."

The mother also approached comedian George Lopez and a Los Angeles TV weatherman who staged a fund-raiser for the child at a comedy club, the defense attorney said.

"At the fund-raiser, there was (the boy) in the lobby of the Laugh Factory with his hand out, prodded by (his mother)," Mesereau said.

He said celebrities including Mike Tyson and Jim Carrey turned the family away, but Jackson was too sympathetic.

"The most vulnerable celebrity became the mark, Michael Jackson," Mesereau said.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050301/D88HTKUG1.html

[Malicious Intent]

Good job with the updates Dude.

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[Shawn]

Faces of Jacko

link

[rainbowdemon]

That poses a very interesting question. What IS going on inside?

:wha':

[DudeAsInCool]

That poses a very interesting question. What IS going on inside?

:wha':

Here is the Smoking Gun report on the opening arguments and up-to-date happenings of the trial:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/02280...nopenings1.html

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OH, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! DON'T LET FREAK FOOL YOU

By ANDREA PEYSER

March 2, 2005 -- SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Pass the Kleenex, Jacko's having a moment.

And don't forget to remind him to watch his mascara.

It was Michael Jackson's turn to cry. And he did so, right here in the courtroom — quietly, elegantly, and ever so delicately.

Read more at home:

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/41662.htm

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It's a (Fake) Thriller

The E! Channel re-enactments of the Jackson trial have a DIY charm.

By Dana Stevens

Updated Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at 12:00 PM PT

In this morning's Boston Globe, Joanna Weiss complained that the nightly E! channel re-enactments of the Michael Jackson trial, which kicked off last night at 7:30 p.m. ET, were off to a dull start. I couldn't disagree more. Everything Weiss disliked—the cheap-looking fake-wood sets, the sparse minimalism of the courtroom setting, the almost Beckett-like reduction of the trial itself to its barest component parts—was what had me Krazy-Glued to the television screen. Sure, the "analysis" in between segments (offered by such scholars as Johnny Cochran's law partner, Shawn Chapman Holley, and former Jackson attorney Howard Weitzman) was lame, but no more so than the legal chatter we hear all day from talking heads all up and down the dial. I loved the DIY, let's-put-on-a-show feel of the whole downmarket enterprise. As E! Networks head Ted Harbert has explained, each half-hour show will be put together in less than 24 hours, with writers and producers staying up all night to cull that day's transcripts, selecting key passages, which the actors then memorize for a morning shoot.

http://www.slate.com/id/2114131/

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Woman: Jackson camp planned smear campaign

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By Tim Molloy

March 3, 2005  |  Santa Maria, Calif. -- A public relations specialist who worked for Michael Jackson six days told jurors the pop singer's team planned a smear campaign against the mother of his young accuser.

Ann Marie Kite, hired in 2003 to help rehabilitate Jackson's image after the airing of a damaging documentary, testified Wednesday that his associates hoped to portray the accuser's mother as a "crack whore."

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2005/03/03/j...mear/index.html

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Leno Wants Exception to Jackson Gag Order

Wed Mar 2,11:42 PM ET

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Jay Leno, who has been subpoenaed for Michael Jackson (news)'s child molestation trial, wants the judge to lift or clarify a gag order that could keep the comedian from one of his most vital sources of punchlines.

Read more here:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...el_jackson_leno

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Sister Of Jackson's Accuser Testifies

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. March 03, 2005, 7:45 PM ET

The teenage sister of Michael Jackson's accuser told jurors today (March 3) about a series of unusual events that unfolded around the time of the alleged abuse, including a sudden trip in which the family was whisked away to Miami on a private jet.

The testimony was elicited to support allegations that the singer conspired to hold the accuser's family captive to get them to rebut a February 2003 documentary in which Jackson said he allowed boys to sleep in his bed. The Miami trip occurred as the program was about to air.

Read more here:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_...t_id=1000826740

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Saturday March 5, 7:09 AM

Sister of Jackson's child sex accuser admits to lying

The sister of the boy who accused Michael Jackson of child abuse admitted in front of trial jurors that she had selectively lied about details of the case.

Read more here:

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050304/1/3r1km.html

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Sister of Jackson's child sex accuser admits to lying

only the little people tell the truth under oath.

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Accuser's Family Set Jacko Up

Saturday, March 05, 2005

By Roger Friedmanm, Fox News

Jacko: Accuser's Mom Wrote 'model' Releases

What I've tried to tell you all along about this Michael Jackson prosecution came to light yesterday in court: the D.A. has a bad case. Not just a weak case, but a bad one. No matter what you think Michael Jackson did or didn't do in the past, this family has set him up.

Granted, I have no idea if he did or didn't molest the now 15-year-old boy at the center of the case. But I do know that the boy's mother and her now-husband invented the story of the family’s kidnapping.

Yesterday the 18-year-old sister of the boy broke down on the stand and admitted to defense attorney Thomas Mesereau that she'd lied already in her testimony.

"So you'd lie about certain things and tell the truth about certain things, depending on what you are asked, right?" Mesereau asked the woman. "Yeah," she replied.

That's the beginning of the end for the prosecution.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149512,00.html

[DudeAsInCool]

It's pretty clear to me at this point that the case against Michael Jackson is a sham...

[Cerebral_Assassin]

I say they throw the whole damn thing out of court and quit costing us taxpayers a fortune. There have been so many lies and inconsistencies on both sides.......drop it.

[Redneck4sure]

It's pretty clear to me at this point that the case against Michael Jackson is a sham...

You voted for Kerry. Ain't nothin clear to you.