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Post by Booker Thee on Mar 29, 2005 18:20:43 GMT -5
Jackson is finished...
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Post by Skinartia on Mar 31, 2005 9:13:05 GMT -5
Even more interesting info from the trial continues including how Michael hates being black...
Jackson virgin at 32
(BANG) - Michael Jackson was a virgin until the age of 32, but lusted after his female fans, according to a taped phone call released yesterday (29.03.05).
Jackson also talks about his battle with anorexia and how he hates his "n***r hair" in the call.
The conversation between Jackson and a nine-year-old boy was recorded by the young fan's family in 1985.
They claim the star used to ring the boy regularly for midnight chats about his love life.
According to Jackson's publicity agent the tapes show that the singer - on trial for molesting a 13-year-old boy - is a heterosexual.
Publicist David Hans Schmidt said outside the Santa Maria courtroom: "There is some dynamite stuff on these tapes. I believe they will demonstrate that Jackson is, or at least was, heterosexual."
Meanwhile, Macuaulay Culkin's estranged father, Kit, has denied any of his children were molested by Jackson.
On Monday (28.03.05), the judge ruled to admit evidence about five alleged previous sex abuse victims including the Home Alone star.
But Kit has reportedly signed a statement saying: "I never saw or heard anything at all during my early days of knowing Michael to suggest that he was a paedophile. My children never slept with Michael."
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Post by Skinartia on Apr 7, 2005 16:08:29 GMT -5
Michael Jackson Had Oral Sex with Boy, Guard Says
By Dan Whitcomb SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Jackson had oral sex with a young boy at his Neverland Valley Ranch more than 10 years ago, a former security guard testified on Thursday.
Ralph Chacon, who worked the overnight shift at Neverland between 1991 and 1994, told the jury he heard the pop singer and the boy, who was 9 or 10 years old, in the shower and later saw Jackson caressing the boy's hair, kissing him on face and sucking his nipples.
"He put the little boy's pe*is in his mouth," Chacon said.
"Did you actually see that?" prosecutor Tom Sneddon asked. "Yes," Chacon replied, adding that Jackson's kisses were "very passionate" and that the singer's hands were "all over" the boy's body.
Chacon's testimony was the most explosive so far in Jackson's trial on sex abuse charges involving a 13 year-old boy in 2003. The trial, now in its second month, has already heard testimony from the alleged victim and another young man who said they were masturbated or groped by the singer when they were minors.
Chacon named the boy he had seen with Jackson on one night in 1993 as the youth who reached an out of court settlement with the entertainer for a reported $23 million dollars. Jackson was never criminally charged in that case.
Chacon was one of a number of witnesses called by the prosecution to demonstrate what they say is a penchant by Jackson for molesting young boys.
In the current case, Jackson is charged with committing lewd acts on a 13-year-old boy at Neverland in early 2003 and plying the youth with alcohol in order to molest him. He is also accused of conspiring with his associates to commit false imprisonment, child abduction and extortion.
The self-styled King of Pop has pleaded innocent. He faces more than 20 years in prison if he is convicted on all 10 counts.
Prosecutors say that over the past 15 years Jackson has formed suspicious "special friendships" with a series of adolescent boys.
Jackson's lawyers say that his accusers have been motivated by the prospect of lucrative settlements with the performer. They have portrayed the teenager at the center of the current case as a liar who was goaded into inventing the abuse by his mother.
Jurors have already heard this week from a 24-year-old man who broke down in tears on the witness stand as he described being fondled three times between the ages of 7 and 10 by Jackson during what were ostensibly tickle sessions.
The man's mother, a former Neverland maid, testified on Tuesday that Jackson regularly shared his bed with "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin and another boy -- whom she once discovered showering with the pop star.
The mother and her son also reached a civil settlement with Jackson for more than $2 million in the mid-1990s. Jackson was never charged with a crime in that case.
Representatives for Culkin, who insists that Jackson never behaved inappropriately with him, say he will not take part in the trial.
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Post by Skinartia on Jun 1, 2005 9:59:14 GMT -5
Michael Jackson jury could get case by Friday
By Dan Whitcomb and Alexandria Sage SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - The jury could begin deliberating in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial by the end of the week, a judge said on Tuesday, following instructions on the law and closing arguments by attorneys for both sides.
Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville, who spent the day working on jury instructions with prosecutors and defense lawyers with jurors and Jackson absent, said he wanted to hand the case over to the eight-woman, four-man panel by Friday afternoon.
"I want to get the case out late Friday," Melville told attorneys for both sides after pushing back closing statements by one day.
Following that timeline the jury could begin deliberations late on Friday or Monday morning. Jurors were expected to work behind closed doors for about six hours a day until they either reach verdicts or announce a deadlock. The jury will be asked to weigh a Santa Barbara County Grand jury indictment that charges Jackson with four counts of molesting a 13-year-old boy, four counts of plying the young cancer patient with alcohol in order to abuse him, one count of conspiracy and one count of attempted molestation.
The 46-year-old entertainer, who has pleaded innocent, faces more than two decades in prison if convicted on all 10 counts, which stem from the boy's extended visit to Neverland Valley Ranch in February and March of 2003.
Melville ruled on Tuesday that in considering the four alcohol counts against Jackson, the jury could determine that the singer gave his young accuser alcohol but did not abuse him. Under that scenario they could convict him of a lesser charge.
Legal experts said the move, which is not unusual in California courts, did not affect the remainder of the indictment, and gave prosecutors an advantage as the misdemeanor charge might be easier to prove.
Jackson would face two to four years in state prison if convicted of the felony alcohol charge, while the misdemeanor charge carries a fine and the possibility of a shorter spell in county jail.
The accuser, both on the witness stand and in a videotaped police interview, said Jackson routinely gave him wine while he was staying at Neverland. He said Jackson masturbated him on several occasions after plying him with alcohol.
The judge made his decision while discussing with prosecution and the defense key rulings on how he would instruct the jury.
"They're arguing about the ground rules that will control everything that will happen from now on -- arguments, deliberations and verdict," former San Francisco prosecutor Jim Hammer said.
But the process was so tedious that by mid-afternoon the normally packed courtroom held only about two dozen reporters and Jackson fans, some of them dozing.
"If we had televised today's proceedings we could have deterred an entire generation of kids from going to law school," defense attorney Robert Sanger quipped.
Two key players in the case, lead defense attorney Tom Mesereau and prosecutor Ron Zonen, were absent, presumably working on their closing arguments.
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