Michael Jackson,Will he make a comeback? (Edited)

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Well... there went today's food.



*gags*

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's ex-wife will be allowed to testify for the prosecution about an interview she gave defending the pop star as child molestation charges swirled around him in early 1993, the judge in his child molestation trial ruled Monday.

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville refused a request from Jackson's defense to keep Debbie Rowe off the witness stand, although he did say that "I will look for ways to restrict testimony." Sources have told CNN that she could testify this week.

Rowe is the mother of two of Jackson's two oldest children, Prince Michael and Paris. She and Jackson, who divorced in 1999, are currently involved court-supervised negotiations over a new custody agreement that would increase her contact with the children, who live with Jackson


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/25/jacks ... index.html

Read the rest about this important witness appearance at link.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's legal team is undergoing a shakeup just days before the defense is expected to start presenting its case to jurors in the pop star's trial on child molestation charges.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/25/jacks ... index.html

Read all about the latest news from the trial at link.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- An associate of Michael Jackson asked for one-way plane tickets to Brazil for the pop star's teenage accuser and his family in February 2003, days after they filmed a video designed to rebut a controversial television documentary, a travel consultant testified Tuesday.

Read at link below the rest of todays events at the trial.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/26/jacks ... index.html



Jackson leaving the courthouse.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- She was an unknown nurse who came out of the blue to marry a world-famous enigma and give him two children, all while under the unyielding glare of the media's spotlight.

Soon the tangled personal saga of Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson will unfold in a California courtroom, when she takes the stand today to testify for the prosecution in her ex-husband's child molestation trial.


Exwife of Jacko will testify today.

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Jackson Defense Bid for Mistrial Rejected


Apr 27, 4:23 PM (ET)

By LINDA DEUTSCH

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - Michael Jackson's attorneys asked for a mistrial in his child molestation case Wednesday but were turned down by the judge during a dispute over testimony about the TV documentary that led to the pop star's prosecution.

The issue erupted during the testimony of former Jackson videographer Hamid Moslehi, who said that during the taping of "Living With Michael Jackson," he used his own camera to record the material as a backup for Jackson.

The boy now accusing Jackson of molestation appeared with Jackson in the documentary, which showed the pop star saying that he allowed children to sleep in his bed but that it was nonsexual.

Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003, giving the boy alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive to get them to rebut the documentary.


Under prosecution questioning, Moslehi said that when he saw the documentary prepared by British journalist Martin Bashir, he realized it did not include everything.

"The way it was edited, Mr. Jackson sounded different than if they had continued another two or three seconds of that statement," he testified.

Judge Rodney S. Melville interrupted the questioning, warning prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss that he was delving into an area the judge had ruled off-limits.

Defense attorney Robert Sanger asked for a mistrial, suggesting that the prosecutor asked the questions to plant ideas in the jurors' minds.

"He wanted them to hear about the issue of sleeping with boys," Sanger said.


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Prosecutors were expected to soon call Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe, who is in a family court battle with the pop star over visitation of their two children. She is expected to say that a video in which she praised Jackson was scripted.

Earlier, Moslehi testified about his role in recording the so-called rebuttal video made after the TV documentary. The mother of the accuser testified previously that she was intimidated and that the rebuttal video was entirely scripted.

But Moslehi said the accuser, his brother and sister were at his house for two or three hours before the taping began and he did not see them rehearsing. He said that the mother was there for about an hour before the taping and that he did not see her reading, rehearsing or being coached.

He also said that the mother confided in him at times but that she never told him that she was being falsely imprisoned, that she was receiving death threats, that Jackson had given her children alcohol or that the singer improperly touched her son. He said she also never asked him to call police.






This is what happened at the trial on this wednesday.At photo Jackson as he was entering the courthouse.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's ex-wife testified Wednesday that she was not honest when she praised her former husband as a parent during an interview she gave in February 2003 to help defend him after the broadcast of a damaging television documentary.

However, contradicting earlier statements from the prosecution, Debbie Rowe said her comments in the interview, while not truthful, were also not scripted or rehearsed, and she said she even turned down an offer to see the questions in advance.

"I didn't want anyone to come back to me to say my interview was rehearsed," she said. "No one tells me what to say, as Mr. Jackson knows. I speak my own mind."




Hmmm the prosecution took a little blow after the exwife of Jacko said some things the prosecution didn't want to hear.But she will be on the stand again today and let's see if the prosecuter can stop the damage done.

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Michael Jackson's ex-wife told a jury Thursday that she believed the pop star was being manipulated by three business associates she called "opportunistic vultures," who were trying to profit from his fame and fortune. Debbie Rowe, who gave birth to two of Jackson's children, also said she tried to warn him about her concerns by sending a message via his dermatologist -- her former employer.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/28/jacks ... index.html


Will the jurors believe her?

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Over vigorous objections by Michael Jackson's attorneys, the judge in the pop star's child molestation trial allowed the prosecution to introduce into evidence books seized in a 1993 search of the singer's home that show nude pictures of adolescent boys.

The defense had argued that the material was too prejudicial and remote in time from the current criminal charges involving alleged incidents with a 13-year-old boy in 2003.

But Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville said the "probative value" of the books exceeds any possible prejudicial effect.

Melville said the books would be considered sexually explicit under California law. However, the police detective who found them testified that Jackson could legally possess the books.


Read the rest of todays trial events.The prosecution is going to rest it's case next tuesday.



Jacko with his mother as they enter the courthouse friday.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Prosecutors in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial used telephone records Monday to underscore their contention that Jackson's associates tried to intimidate and control the family of his accuser.

The introduction of telephone and banking records Monday came as prosecutors neared the end of their case in the trial, more than two months old.

Sgt. Craig Bonner, a Santa Barbara County sheriff's investigator, used a chart in court to outline a series of more than 40 calls among several of Jackson's business associates, some of whom have been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the case.

The calls were placed from hotel rooms in Florida and California and a chartered jet in the days surrounding the broadcast of a February 2003 documentary by British filmmaker Martin Bashir.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/02/jacks ... index.html

Read the rest about this at link above.It looks like the procsecution wants to close on a strong way his presentation to then allow the defense to present their case.This trial has taken very long and I see this going on thru July.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- A former wife of Michael Jackson called the pop star a "sociopath" in a 2004 interview and made statements "inconsistent" with testimony she gave in his child-molestation trial last week, a detective testified Tuesday.

Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of Jackson's three children, took the stand as a prosecution witness last week. Her testimony became a source of unexpected good fortune for the pop star's defense when she called Jackson "kind" and a "wonderful father." (More from that testimony)

But Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Robel, the lead investigator in Jackson's case, said Tuesday that Rowe had little good to say about Jackson during a March 2004 interview with detectives.

"She referred to Michael as a sociopath and his children as possessions," Robel said.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/03/jacks ... index.html

Read the rest of this testimony at link.The prosecution presentation is comming to a close this week.Then will come the defense case to rebate what the Prosecution has presented as evidence.

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. — A man who worked with one of Michael Jackson's (search) associates testified Wednesday in the singer's child molestation trial that a member of the singer's inner circle once referred to "killers" pursuing the accuser's family.

The witness, Rudy Provencio, was called by the prosecution to support conspiracy allegations against Jackson.

Prosecutors contend Jackson associates participated in a plan to hold the family captive in 2003 by saying that killers were after them, in order to get the family to appear in a video rebutting a damaging documentary about Jackson.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155464,00.html

Read the rest of todays events at the trial.

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Today it all starts for the defense team to make the case in front of the jurors after the prosecution ended it's presentation which was in my opinion not too strong.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- The leadoff witness for Michael Jackson's defense Thursday denied the pop star molested him as a boy, even though he spent several nights in Jackson's bedroom at Neverland Ranch.

"Did Michael Jackson ever molest you?" defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. asked.

"Absolutely not," the witness replied.

"Did he ever touch you in a sexual way?" Mesereau asked.

"Never, no," he said.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/05/jacks ... index.html

Read the rest of what the first witness for the defense testified.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- The mother of a man prosecutors claim was molested by Michael Jackson as a boy during the 1990s testified Friday that the pop star never behaved inappropriately around her children.

The woman also testified that her children slept in Jackson's bed numerous times, and that Jackson has remained like "family" to her.

The woman followed her son's testimony on Thursday, in which he testified that Jackson never molested him. Another man whom prosecutors allege was molested by Jackson in the 1990s also rejected such claims Thursday.



http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/06/jacks ... index.html

Read the rest of the fridays events at the trial as the defense witnesses continue to testify.

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It's hillarious how CNN won't say the names of these witnesses. MSNBC, our candian news channels, the BBC, all of them do. They're not hiding anything from anyone.

The witnesses in the two articles above are Wade Robson and his mother.

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- A former security supervisor at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testified Monday she never saw the pop star exhibit any illegal or improper behavior toward young boys.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/09/jacks ... index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7792544/

At links above all of what occured on monday at trial.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7804969/

At link is all of what occured on tuesday as the parade of the defense witnesses continues.

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Former child star Macaulay Culkin, 24, will testify today in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial. His appearance is a major moment in this strange and often uncomfortable ordeal. Culkin could be the best thing that has happened to Jackson — or the worst.

A great defense witness today that favors Jacko.

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Actor Macaulay Culkin took the stand at Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial Wednesday and denied he was molested, saying the accusations against the pop star were “absolutely ridiculous.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7816771/

Read at link the rest of his testimony.



Here is Macaulay Culkin when he arrived at the courthouse.