The Michael Jackson Trial

[DudeAsInCool]

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

I'd vote for him again over Mr Wanna-Be-Jesus with the Big Stick

[Redneck4sure]

with the Big Stick

Penis envy???

[DudeAsInCool]

Penis envy???

Not over these dicks

[Redneck4sure]

You're just jealous over being out-dicked.

[DudeAsInCool]

You're just jealous over being out-dicked.

From these l'l stiffs?

[Redneck4sure]

From these l'l stiffs?

Bend over. The little stiffs have something for you.

[DudeAsInCool]

Bend over. The little stiffs have something for you.

No problem - Im wearin' GW's bullet proof asswipe protector

[Redneck4sure]

That's only good for small caliber 'liberal' attacks.

We're talking large caliber full bore shit packin'.

[DudeAsInCool]

We're talking large caliber full bore shit packin'.

Woundnt know - ask Cheney - thats his territory

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Back to the Michael Jackson trial. What a sham!

[Shawn]

Not being kidnapped in the manner specified doesn't mean the boy wasn't molested. Let the trial play out. If it is that obvious that it's a sham, the jury will notice too.

[DudeAsInCool]

Even if its technically molestation, the boy himself has stated that he's more sexually knowledgable than Michael Jackson... so who is taking advantage of who?

[Shawn]

You're not suggesting that a 12-13 year old boy took advantage of a father of 2-3? I would say that Jacko is a pretty good actor.

[DudeAsInCool]

You're not suggesting that a 12-13 year old boy took advantage of a father of 2-3?

Im suggesting that kid is older behaviorally than his age... Jackson is a shcizo--i snme ways he's an adult, in other ways he's a child

[Shawn]

Keeping in mind that he's 15 now? Or on evidence from then?

[DudeAsInCool]

Keeping in mind that he's 15 now? Or on evidence from then?

The kids were breaking into the alcahol cabinets, etc. I grant you that the age difference is fairly shocking - and if Jackson was totally manipulating the boy, that would be one thing - I just dont see it as a cut and dried situation

[DudeAsInCool]

Jackson accuser was living life of luxury

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By Linda Deutsch

March 6, 2005  |  SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) -- They rode in chauffeured limousines, were whisked across the country in private jets and were treated to spas at luxury resorts. Along the way, the poor family with the cancer-stricken son circulated within a constellation of celebrities -- Chris Tucker, George Lopez, Kobe Bryant among them.

But of all the stars, Michael Jackson was the brightest, and seemingly the most generous.

"We were broken and Michael fixed us," the mother of the family said on a video shown in court last week at Jackson's child molestation trial.

Read more here:

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2005/03/06/jackson/index.html

  There was a trip to Los Angeles in the dead of night to make a "rebuttal" video extolling Jackson's generosity. And, the prosecution said, there were threats that the family would be harmed if they did not cooperate.

Then, abruptly, it was over. They were returned to a grandmother's home and never visited Jackson again.

Within weeks of their final visit, the family contacted two lawyers, one of whom had arranged a $20 million settlement for another boy who made sexual claims against Jackson in 1993. The boy was sent to see a psychologist who reported that he might have been molested. 

[DudeAsInCool]

Discrepancies in the accuser and his brother's molestation accounts will fuel Jackson defense

MARCH 7--With their sister already struggling on the witness stand, the Los Angeles brothers at the heart of the molestation case against Michael Jackson are now waiting in the wings, with their anticipated testimony appearing more crucial than ever.

However, the pair's accounts of Jackson's illegal behavior have been fluid and filled with the kind of troubling inconsistencies and contradictions that could easily undermine their uncorroborated version of the singer's alleged sex assaults in his Neverland Ranch bedroom.

Read a full account at The Smoking Gun:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/03070...cksonboys1.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Michael Jackson's Accuser's Brother Admits Lying

Jackson defense challenges credibility of accuser's brother

Cross-examination reveals earlier false testimony

SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's defense attorney Tuesday went after the credibility of the brother of the teenage boy accusing the pop star of child molestation, challenging the boy's account of seeing the singer grope his brother.

Under cross-examination from defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr., the brother also admitted Tuesday that he lied in a deposition given in a civil suit.

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[Malicious Intent]

It sounds like the claimants case is falling to pieces.

Your posts are still all I can handle, but I think I am slowly getting sucked in.

[DudeAsInCool]

Accuser's brother cites nerves for contradictions

SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- The brother of the teenage boy accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation cited nervousness Wednesday for giving different versions of an incident in which he claimed to have walked in on Jackson groping his brother.

Under questioning by prosecutors, the brother described an incident where he said he walked up a set of stairs into Jackson's bedroom at Neverland Ranch and saw Jackson with one hand down his sleeping brother's pants, while sexually gratifying himself with the other.

But Wednesday, Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. confronted the brother with a statement he made to investigators from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, in which he said he witnessed that incident while sitting on a couch in the bedroom -- and that his brother was not merely sleeping but passed out from drinking alcohol.

"This isn't what you said yesterday," Mesereau said. When the brother tried to explain the shifting details by saying he had been nervous during the police interview, the defense attorney pointedly asked, "Because you were nervous, you didn't get the facts right?"

"Yes," the brother replied.

http://cnn.law.printthis.clickability.com/...&partnerID=2013

[DudeAsInCool]

Judge Orders Arrest of Michael Jackson

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - An angry judge issued an arrest warrant for Michael Jackson on Thursday after he failed to show up for his child molestation trial on time and his attorney announced the singer was being treated for a serious back problem.

Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville said he would also forfeit Jackson's $3 million bail unless he appeared in court within one hour.

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

[DudeAsInCool]

Fair-weather friend

The accuser in the Michael Jackson trial testifies that the pop star dropped him after initially showing concern about the boy's cancer.

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By Dan Glaister

March 10, 2005  |  SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- The 15-year-old boy who accuses Michael Jackson of child molestation Wednesday confronted the pop star across the courtroom as he took to the witness stand. In emotionally charged scenes the teenager and the entertainer sat barely 15 feet apart but studiously avoided eye contact in the hushed court.

Speaking in a quiet, occasionally hesitant voice, the boy told how 46-year-old Jackson had initially invited him to his home when he was receiving cancer treatment but subsequently seemed to drop him. But that changed, said the boy, when Martin Bashir was making his documentary, "Living With Michael Jackson." "Before that I hadn't talked to Michael in a very long time," the boy told the court.

Read more here:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/...rial/index.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Insiders Fear Jackson Will Commit Suicide

Thursday, March 10, 2005

By Roger Friedman

Michael Jackson's close friends now really fear that he will commit suicide. I am not kidding. The scene this morning at the courthouse in Santa Maria has convinced people who ordinarily do not say these things that Jackson is in serious mental trouble.

One thing is for sure: the combined pressures of his financial peril and seeing his accuser on the stand have undone Jackson. My insider says: "He does not have back trouble," as Jackson claimed. "He's making it up. But he's definitely in pain. He's creating it."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149992,00.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Accuser testifies that Jackson molested him

SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's teenage accuser said Thursday that the pop star manually stimulated him on two separate occasions -- and tried to get the then-13 year old to do the same to him during overnight sleepovers at Jackson's Neverland Ranch two years ago.

..The teenager Thursday testified in Jackson's child molestation trial of sleeping alone with the pop star and being served alcohol by the singer.

http://cnn.law.printthis.clickability.com/...&partnerID=2013

[DudeAsInCool]

Jackson, Tardy and Unkempt, Hears Boy's Testimony

By JOHN M. BRODER

Published: March 11, 2005

SANTA MARIA, Calif., March 10 - Michael Jackson, dressed in blue print pajama bottoms and looking more spectral than ever, listened on Thursday in obvious distress to more than four hours of damaging testimony from the boy who has accused Mr. Jackson of sexually molesting him.

In a dramatic start to a tense day, Mr. Jackson arrived in court more than an hour late, disheveled, limping and heavily medicated after what his lawyers said was a fall early Thursday morning that sent him to a local emergency room. His failure to appear for the 8:30 a.m. start of the court session provoked Judge Rodney S. Melville, of Santa Barbara Superior Court, to issue a warrant for his arrest and threaten to revoke his $3 million bond, raising the possibility that Mr. Jackson would be jailed for the rest of his trial.

When he did arrive, Mr. Jackson faced his 15-year-old accuser, who gave an explicit account of Mr. Jackson masturbating him twice and repeatedly serving him alcohol at his Neverland ranch near here. Mr. Jackson generally avoided eye contact with the boy but often squirmed at the defense table and held his head in his hands.

You can read more here:

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/11/national/11j...+a5/Wn8gGidfX5w