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Official April 14 2005
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senecajackson
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OMG he looks sooo good today!
Again...as usual!
red is definately his color!
OK Mez! Time to get smokin...let's grill her (Janet A) ass today!
Again...as usual!
red is definately his color!
OK Mez! Time to get smokin...let's grill her (Janet A) ass today!
sistahlamb
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Court must have started a while ago.
Any updates please??
Any updates please??
Originally posted by sistahlamb
Court must have started a while ago.
Any updates please??
I find this on MJJF
Unchecked CourtTV Transcript (09:43AM PST 04/14/05)
Host: Savannah Guthrie joins us now with the latest. This is continued direct examination of the woman on the witness stand. What has she tole the jury this morning?
Guthrie: It is slow going, we are zeroing in on a couple days, February 19th and 20th of 2003. On the 19th, she late in the night actually into the morning of the 20th, the accuser's mother and children participated in an interview that was supposed to be for that rebuttal video that eventually did air on fox, although they weren't in the final cut, she talked about that interview which I'm sure you will see when cross-examination happens. This is the video in which the mother talks about how wonderful Jackson is, uses the flowery terms to say how wonderful he is. So, what the prosecutor did was ask her basically what led up to that rebuttal video. She testified that Jackson's people were telling her to speak in glowing terms about Michael Jackson, they also -- she also said that they told her to put on more and more makeuP. They wanted her to look all madeup for the video. She talked about how it went late into the night. They arrived back at her boyfriend's house at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. At 9:00 A.M. Who came calling but dcsf, child welfare workers because they received a tip that Michael Jackson was abusing the kids, the mother neglecting the kids. There was a security guard by the name of asef who joined the family during the intersbru wanted to attend the interview. And she has testified and it's come out in prior testimony that asef forced her to record the interview on an audio tape, that he gave her a tape recorder that was already playing. Now for the first time jurors are hearing this audio tape of this interview with child welfare workers. The tape seems to start well before the interview starts. You hear lost voices, lots of chaert. There's, beside the kids, mother the security guard, you also hear the voice of asha pryor, the actor chris tucker's girlfriend, was a friend of the family. The mother said she called her and told her to attend the interview. The first thing the mother does is pop in the dvd of Michael Jackson with her son. This is something that the jurors have already seen in court. It is a real kind of emotional, kind of cheesey video where Michael is walking around with the accuser, the accuser is small, skinny from cancer, obviously very sick, his head is balled and playing Michael Jackson music, the song "I'll be there" and the song "smile though your heart is breaking."
Host: Don't sing.
Guthrie: I won't. Trust me, you don't want to hear that. The weird thing about it, jami, to wrap it up, for the first ten minutes of the tape, all you hear is Michael Jackson's music in the courtroom. So everybody is just sitting there as the entire song "I'll be there" plays and transitions to the song "smile" they can't see the dvd. This is an audio tape. As i left they were wrapping up the singing and getting to the heart of the interview. I'll have to get back to you on what was said on the tapE.
Host: You've reported earlier today and yesterday that the real key to this witness for the prosecution is the conspiracy charge. They've charged conspiracy to falsely imprison this family. They need the mother's testimony to prove that up. Savannah what's her demeanor. We don't have a camera in there. I wish we did. That's a subject for another day. What's her demeanor on the witness stand?
Guthrie: She's just as animated as she was yesterday. At first i thought she was a little calmer. But no no, she's warming up to it and very animated, very energetic. Very skub ranlt. There are time when is she seems to yell, like she looks directly at the jurors. Somebody sneezed in the courtroom and she said bless you. I couldn't tell if it was a juror or who it was. At one point, she is talking about this tape, she said, and you can hear asef on the tape. She's just so excited, so exuberant. Again and again, ron zonen, the prosecutor, has to tell her, calm down, listen to my questions, listen to my questions. And mesereau has objected a little bit more than yesterday. We have heard from him a little bit. But he seems to be following the same strategy of let her talk and she is doing just that in court today.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The mother of the boy who has accused Michael Jackson of child molestation testified Thursday that she was sad and confused when she appeared in a video in which she praised the pop star as a father figure.
Prosecutors contend the woman and her family made the video under duress and that Jackson associates wanted her and her children to do it to rebut a TV documentary that aired about two weeks earlier. In the TV show, Jackson was seen with the boy and said he allowed children to sleep in his bed, but that it was innocent.
The woman said she was given a script to follow and that during the video shoot she was read scripted questions.
She said she was instructed to say repeatedly, "That he's a wonderful father. Basically, in summary, that he's a wonderful father ... to my children."
Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen asked if she really believed the things she said on the video.
"I was confused, I was sad, so basically I was acting," she said.
On the tape, the woman continually praised Jackson and occasionally laughed and joked with her children between takes.
The mother said Jackson associated Dieter Wiesner, who prosecutors have named as one of the singer's unindicted co-conspirators, was responsible for scripting the questions and answers.
She testified Wednesday that Wiesner was one of the "Germans" she didn't like because they made her feel pressured. Both Wiesner and another unindicted alleged co-conspirator, Ronald Konitzer, are German.
The woman said that the day after making the rebuttal video, she and her children were interviewed by Los Angeles County child welfare authorities about whether she or Jackson had mistreated the children.
She said that during the interview a Jackson bodyguard pulled her aside and gave her instructions on how to deal with the case workers, implying her parents could be harmed if she didn't protect Jackson's image.
"He told me if I put Michael in a bad light he knew where my parents lived," she testified.
Jackson's associates told her not to allow the children to be separated during the interview, to make sure the case workers described the allegations against Jackson that they were investigating and to allow Jackson associates to tape the interview with a hidden recording device, she said.
They also told her she had to play the case workers a DVD made at Neverland in 2000 which showed Jackson and the boy walking and occasionally holding hands to the strains of Jackson's songs including "I'll Be There."
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old former cancer patient, plying the boy with alcohol, and holding his family captive in February and March 2003 to get them to help rebut the documentary.
The accuser's mother first took the stand Wednesday, and in jumbled and tearful testimony said she originally trusted the singer and associates to protect her family from unidentified "killers," but later decided Jackson was the one to fear.
Judge Rodney S. Melville allowed her to testify despite her refusal to discuss alleged welfare fraud _ an issue on which the defense had hoped to attack her credibility. She invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid questions about it.
The woman said that after the documentary aired, the pop star convinced her in a "lovey-dovey speech" that her children were in danger, that there were "killers" after them, and that he was the only one who could protect them.
"I thought, 'What a nice guy,'" she said.
She said Jackson spoke to her family "in a very male voice" in a Miami hotel room, and told them "that he loves us, that he cares about us, we're family. ... That we were in the back of the line, now we're in the front of the line, that he's going to protect us from those killers."
Later she said of Jackson and his associates: "And you know what? They ended up being the killers."
She also testified that she saw Jackson lick her son's head during a February 2003 flight from Miami to California on a private jet. Asked about the event, she turned to jurors and pleaded, "Please don't judge me."
"Everyone was asleep. I had not slept for so long," she said. "I got up. I figured this was my chance to figure out what was going on back there. And that's when I saw Michael licking (the boy's) head."
She sobbed, pounded her chest and said, "I thought I was seeing things. I thought it was me."
Jurors were in a jovial mood as they returned from a break after the head-licking testimony. Several were smiling or laughing, and an alternate stuck his tongue out at a juror as he passed her on the way to his seat. There was no way of knowing the nature of their jokes.
During more than four hours of testimony Wednesday, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. did not make a single objection. Zonen, however, instructed the witness several times to answer his questions briefly instead of offering lengthy, sometimes off-topic answers.
Before court recessed Wednesday, Zonen played tape-recorded phone conversations between the woman and a man identified as Jackson aide Frank Tyson, whom prosecutors have named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
"Let us take care of you. Let us protect you," Tyson is heard saying. "Trust me. ... Now is not the time to be out there alone."
On the tape, Tyson's gentle, high-pitched voice is startlingly reminiscent of the speaking voice Jackson sometimes uses.
"I thought he was a good guy," the woman said of Tyson, "and he ended up being the worst of all of them."
She said she eventually returned to Jackson's Neverland ranch, gave an interview to a private investigator and appeared on the rebuttal video.
Defense attorneys have raised questions about the woman's credibility by accusing her in opening statements of bilking other celebrities and committing welfare fraud. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon said in his opening statement the woman would admit she took welfare payments to which she wasn't entitled.
The judge read a statement to jurors saying the woman had taken the Fifth outside of their presence and that attorneys did not realize she would do so when they delivered their opening statements.
Defense attorney Robert Sanger vehemently objected to the testimony, saying Jackson had a constitutional right to have his attorneys cross-examine the woman on every issue. The judge rejected a defense request for a mistrial or to require her to take the Fifth in front of jurors.
AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The mother of the boy who has accused Michael Jackson of child molestation testified Thursday that she was sad and confused when she appeared in a video in which she praised the pop star as a father figure.
Prosecutors contend the woman and her family made the video under duress and that Jackson associates wanted her and her children to do it to rebut a TV documentary that aired about two weeks earlier. In the TV show, Jackson was seen with the boy and said he allowed children to sleep in his bed, but that it was innocent.
The woman said she was given a script to follow and that during the video shoot she was read scripted questions.
She said she was instructed to say repeatedly, "That he's a wonderful father. Basically, in summary, that he's a wonderful father ... to my children."
Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen asked if she really believed the things she said on the video.
"I was confused, I was sad, so basically I was acting," she said.
On the tape, the woman continually praised Jackson and occasionally laughed and joked with her children between takes.
The mother said Jackson associated Dieter Wiesner, who prosecutors have named as one of the singer's unindicted co-conspirators, was responsible for scripting the questions and answers.
She testified Wednesday that Wiesner was one of the "Germans" she didn't like because they made her feel pressured. Both Wiesner and another unindicted alleged co-conspirator, Ronald Konitzer, are German.
The woman said that the day after making the rebuttal video, she and her children were interviewed by Los Angeles County child welfare authorities about whether she or Jackson had mistreated the children.
She said that during the interview a Jackson bodyguard pulled her aside and gave her instructions on how to deal with the case workers, implying her parents could be harmed if she didn't protect Jackson's image.
"He told me if I put Michael in a bad light he knew where my parents lived," she testified.
Jackson's associates told her not to allow the children to be separated during the interview, to make sure the case workers described the allegations against Jackson that they were investigating and to allow Jackson associates to tape the interview with a hidden recording device, she said.
They also told her she had to play the case workers a DVD made at Neverland in 2000 which showed Jackson and the boy walking and occasionally holding hands to the strains of Jackson's songs including "I'll Be There."
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old former cancer patient, plying the boy with alcohol, and holding his family captive in February and March 2003 to get them to help rebut the documentary.
The accuser's mother first took the stand Wednesday, and in jumbled and tearful testimony said she originally trusted the singer and associates to protect her family from unidentified "killers," but later decided Jackson was the one to fear.
Judge Rodney S. Melville allowed her to testify despite her refusal to discuss alleged welfare fraud _ an issue on which the defense had hoped to attack her credibility. She invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid questions about it.
The woman said that after the documentary aired, the pop star convinced her in a "lovey-dovey speech" that her children were in danger, that there were "killers" after them, and that he was the only one who could protect them.
"I thought, 'What a nice guy,'" she said.
She said Jackson spoke to her family "in a very male voice" in a Miami hotel room, and told them "that he loves us, that he cares about us, we're family. ... That we were in the back of the line, now we're in the front of the line, that he's going to protect us from those killers."
Later she said of Jackson and his associates: "And you know what? They ended up being the killers."
She also testified that she saw Jackson lick her son's head during a February 2003 flight from Miami to California on a private jet. Asked about the event, she turned to jurors and pleaded, "Please don't judge me."
"Everyone was asleep. I had not slept for so long," she said. "I got up. I figured this was my chance to figure out what was going on back there. And that's when I saw Michael licking (the boy's) head."
She sobbed, pounded her chest and said, "I thought I was seeing things. I thought it was me."
Jurors were in a jovial mood as they returned from a break after the head-licking testimony. Several were smiling or laughing, and an alternate stuck his tongue out at a juror as he passed her on the way to his seat. There was no way of knowing the nature of their jokes.
During more than four hours of testimony Wednesday, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. did not make a single objection. Zonen, however, instructed the witness several times to answer his questions briefly instead of offering lengthy, sometimes off-topic answers.
Before court recessed Wednesday, Zonen played tape-recorded phone conversations between the woman and a man identified as Jackson aide Frank Tyson, whom prosecutors have named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
"Let us take care of you. Let us protect you," Tyson is heard saying. "Trust me. ... Now is not the time to be out there alone."
On the tape, Tyson's gentle, high-pitched voice is startlingly reminiscent of the speaking voice Jackson sometimes uses.
"I thought he was a good guy," the woman said of Tyson, "and he ended up being the worst of all of them."
She said she eventually returned to Jackson's Neverland ranch, gave an interview to a private investigator and appeared on the rebuttal video.
Defense attorneys have raised questions about the woman's credibility by accusing her in opening statements of bilking other celebrities and committing welfare fraud. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon said in his opening statement the woman would admit she took welfare payments to which she wasn't entitled.
The judge read a statement to jurors saying the woman had taken the Fifth outside of their presence and that attorneys did not realize she would do so when they delivered their opening statements.
Defense attorney Robert Sanger vehemently objected to the testimony, saying Jackson had a constitutional right to have his attorneys cross-examine the woman on every issue. The judge rejected a defense request for a mistrial or to require her to take the Fifth in front of jurors.
AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
"He told me if I put Michael in a bad light he knew where my parents lived," she testified.
LMFAO! :crackingu wow i never knew Mike was part of a mafia gang! :crackingu
sistahlamb
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OK, I'm not going to make any comments about this because the defence hasn't even cross-examined her yet.
I wonder if they will get to do that today?
I wonder if they will get to do that today?
The jury has been on Michael's side for some time now.... :crystalball: ... in fact, since Day 1!Originally posted by thiller4ever
Well let me just tell you this we all know this case is a sham but is that how to jury feels??
:sneddoncr Sneddumb
Originally posted by MJISHOT
LMFAO! :crackingu wow i never knew Mike was part of a mafia gang! :crackingu
Shes absolutely NUTS! :tooexcite
thiller4ever
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I feel mez will only get on hour today but that is going to be close to end of the day! I knew it :extremely
Do you know if the direct is almost done yet? I am worried Mez wont have a chance to do any cross today if this long winded wench is kept on the stand much longer. :yukOriginally posted by thiller4ever
I feel mez will only get on hour today but that is going to be close to end of the day! I knew it :extremely
thiller4ever
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Well i think that how it works!!
HeavenSent
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Me neither girl. All this time he's been leading a double life?! The deception.Originally posted by MJISHOT
LMFAO! :crackingu wow i never knew Mike was part of a mafia gang! :crackingu
:cryptic LOL.
thiller4ever
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He is. Its called the apple heads of neverand.
thiller4ever
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Where are the updates with the cross ex?? :mjblue
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Hi guys, normally i'm just reading you :thumbsup
do you know if the prosecution keeps grifter's mother for too long today - will Mez be able to go on with the cross tomorrow?
loved this
"And mesereau has objected a little bit more than yesterday. We have heard from him a little bit. But he seems to be following the same strategy of let her talk and she is doing just that in court today."
I think Mez is doing a wonderful job. God Bless him.
do you know if the prosecution keeps grifter's mother for too long today - will Mez be able to go on with the cross tomorrow?
loved this
"And mesereau has objected a little bit more than yesterday. We have heard from him a little bit. But he seems to be following the same strategy of let her talk and she is doing just that in court today."
I think Mez is doing a wonderful job. God Bless him.
thiller4ever
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Well i waiting for the mother to take the stand to get cross by mez.
I have been trying to find that out but nobody seems to know yet. I am searching the news every few seconds here to find it, as soon as I get news I will post it.Originally posted by Catherine
Hi guys, normally i'm just reading you :thumbsup
do you know if the prosecution keeps grifter's mother for too long today - will Mez be able to go on with the cross tomorrow?
loved this
"And mesereau has objected a little bit more than yesterday. We have heard from him a little bit. But he seems to be following the same strategy of let her talk and she is doing just that in court today."
I think Mez is doing a wonderful job. God Bless him.