http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/10/jackson.trial/index.html
Late for a trial of this magnatude? I can't wait to see his reason. If anyone else conducted themselves like this joker does they would have had their bail revoked long ago. Well anyone who wasn't insanely rich or famous anyway.
This is exactly what I mean, it's really pretty sad that you're all waiting around for him to make the slightest "wrong" move before you tear him up like a pack of rabid wolves.
It doesn't matter whether he's found innocent or not PVS, does it? You've said before that you don't believe that the verdict is a decider. You're always gonna believe he's a rampant child molester regardless of the court ruling.
If he never touched those kids while sleeping in the same bed as them then what he did was "weird" at WORST. He hasn't broken the law, not yet. Unless evidence proves otherwise then I suggest you look at everything concerning this case and this case alone, and realise that until he's proven guilty, he's innocent. Saying "we'll never know the truth" is just a cowardly escape.
-AC
Judge Orders Jackson's Arrest
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (March 10) - Michael Jackson arrived late to his child molestation trial Thursday to face a judge who threatened to arrest him and revoke his $3 million bail.
Jackson, who was said to have been treated at a hospital for a back problem, walked gingerly from his car to the courthouse, failing to beat a one-hour deadline the judge had set before activating an arrest warrant.
Jackson wore a jacket over pajama bottoms and slippers and appeared to be in pain. His movements were hesitant as he took little steps. He turned to acknowledge fans on his way in.
Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville had held onto the arrest warrant to give Jackson one hour to reach court from a hospital where his attorney told the court the singer was being treated for a serious back problem.
The flurry of activity began a day that was already expected to be eventful, with Jackson's accuser returning to the stand to testify about the key allegations against the singer.
Earlier, Jackson's lawyer, Thomas Mesereau Jr., said, ''Mr. Jackson is at Cottage Hospital in Santa Ynez with a serious back problem. He does plan to come in.''
The judge, obviously angry, declared, ''I'm issuing a warrant for his arrest. I'm forfeiting his bail. I will hold the order for one hour.''
Mesereau, whose request that the judge talk to Jackson's doctor on the phone was turned down, said a short time later that Jackson was on his way.
Hospital spokeswoman Janet O'Neill said Jackson left Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital at 8:45 a.m. It is about a 35-mile drive from the hospital to the court. O'Neill had no comment on Jackson's condition.
Mesereau had been observed talking urgently on his cell phone for about a half-hour before the session was to begin.
Jackson has had health problems that previously interrupted the proceedings. During the first week of jury selection he went to a hospital with flu symptoms. But he has been on time or early since then.
At the time of the bout with the flu, Melville told prospective jurors the delay was not part of a calculated attempt by anyone to slow down the trial.
''Mr. Jackson really was sick. He really did have the flu,'' the judge said at the time. ''I talked to his doctor. ... I wouldn't let anyone take advantage of us that way.''
On Wednesday, Jackson's young accuser faced the singer for the first time since leaving the singer's Neverland Ranch in March 2003, and described viewing sexually explicit images with the singer in his bedroom.
The 15-year-old was not asked about the molestation allegations before court ended Wednesday, but described viewing adult Internet sites with Jackson and others after the singer suggested he and his brother sleep in his room on their first visit to Neverland in 2000. The boy also testified that Jackson told him to ''call me daddy'' during the taping of a documentary.
The accuser followed to the stand his 14-year-old brother, who testified he saw Jackson fondle his sibling in late February or early March 2003.
The accuser gave the same account his brother had of looking at sexually explicit Web sites on their second night at Neverland after their parents gave them permission to sleep in Jackson's room.
The boy said one of Jackson's employees, Frank Tyson, began looking at sites on the Internet as the others watched.
The witness said they looked at women or teenage girls on about seven sites for a period of 15 to 30 minutes, and he repeated an account his brother had given about a remark Jackson allegedly made.
''There was this girl with her shirt up and it was all quiet and stuff and Michael's like, 'Got milk?''' he said.
At another point, Jackson whispered in the ear of his sleeping son, Prince Michael, saying his son was missing out and using a slang for female genitalia, the accuser said.
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting the boy, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive to get them to rebut a damaging TV documentary in which Jackson said he allowed children to sleep in his bedroom. Jackson's defense contends the family has a history of filing false claims to get money.
The accuser, who was a cancer patient when he met Jackson, talked about attending a Los Angeles comedy camp hosted by club owner Jamie Masada, whom he would later ask to put him in touch with Jackson.
The boy said Jackson invited him to Neverland the first time they talked. He said Jackson called his hospital room as he was being treated for cancer, and they later talked on the phone about 20 times.
The boy said Jackson later invited him to appear in a documentary being produced by British journalist Martin Bashir and coached him on what to say. It aired on Feb. 6, 2003.
Associated Press Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.
wtf are you ranting about?
the man has a trial to go to.
therefore, he has to be there.
and what i believe has no consequence on MJ, the jury, the legal system,etc.
so please quit the grandstanding, as if im destroying the american way of life.
i believe he did it. you believe he didn't. therefore we are both presumptuous.
difference: i can admit it
Originally posted by PVS
and what i believe has no consequence on MJ, the jury, the legal system,etc.
so please quit the grandstanding, as if im destroying the american way of life.
i believe he did it. you believe he didn't. therefore we are both presumptuous.
difference: i can admit it
This is a thread to discuss his case, not his punctuality.
Secondly, I believe he didn't coz there's NOTHING to prove he did. You believe he did, and will continue to, despite an acquition. Based on what? "He'll never get convicted even if he IS one, we'll never know". Quite cowardly. Anyone can say that about ANY crime. I'm sure you don't say "He could still be a murderer" to every murder case.
-AC