MJ digs again scoured by cops
LOS ANGELES - Cops raided Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch again yesterday to search for more evidence in the child molestation case against him.
But investigators wouldn't say what they were looking for or seized in the day-long raid.
The search warrant records are sealed, and all parties in the case are under a gag order.
"We will only confirm that a judge issued a search warrant and that sheriff's deputies are conducting a search," said Jason Karpf, a spokesman for Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon.
At a court hearing last month, Jackson's lawyer Tom Mesereau dropped a bombshell when he revealed prosecutors "can't find the alleged victim's DNA in Mr. Jackson's room."
That key evidence - which might show the boy engaged in sexual activity in Jackson's room - has not turned up despite a year's worth of forensic testing on the pop star's mattress, bedding and other evidence seized in the first raid of Neverland on Nov. 18, 2003.
Karpf would not confirm source reports that the accuser's mother has revealed "new information" in the case nearly two years after the alleged molestation occurred.
Jackson, 46, was not home yesterday when dozens of Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies showed up at his 2,700-acre ranch at 9 a.m. and began combing for clues.
Mesereau raced more than 150 miles from Los Angeles to the Los Olivos ranch to monitor the search, sources said. He could not be reached for comment.
The search came just three days before a key deadline in the criminal case when both sides are supposed to turn over all evidence, reports and witness statements they plan to use at trial, scheduled to begin Jan 31.
Jackson is charged with molesting a cancer patient, who was then 13, and conspiring to hold the boy and his family hostage at Neverland in early 2003. He has pleaded not guilty.
Jackson's family was furious about yesterday's raid. "Michael's parents are extremely upset. They consider this eleventh-hour search part of the district attorney's continued harassment of Michael," said lawyer Debra Opri.
In the past year, cops have executed at least 100 search warrants in the case and recently raided the home of Jackson's personal secretary Evi Tavasci.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/258857p-221653c.html
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En arvannutkaan että Sneddon on näin epätoivoinen! Joko tää on pelkkää PR-juonittelua tai sitten se yrittää viimeiseen asti löytää edes jotain todisteita MJ:n syyllisyydestä, jopa vielä paria päivää ennen kuin kaikki todisteet pitää luovuttaa... jokatapauksessa säälittävää...
LOS ANGELES - Cops raided Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch again yesterday to search for more evidence in the child molestation case against him.
But investigators wouldn't say what they were looking for or seized in the day-long raid.
The search warrant records are sealed, and all parties in the case are under a gag order.
"We will only confirm that a judge issued a search warrant and that sheriff's deputies are conducting a search," said Jason Karpf, a spokesman for Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon.
At a court hearing last month, Jackson's lawyer Tom Mesereau dropped a bombshell when he revealed prosecutors "can't find the alleged victim's DNA in Mr. Jackson's room."
That key evidence - which might show the boy engaged in sexual activity in Jackson's room - has not turned up despite a year's worth of forensic testing on the pop star's mattress, bedding and other evidence seized in the first raid of Neverland on Nov. 18, 2003.
Karpf would not confirm source reports that the accuser's mother has revealed "new information" in the case nearly two years after the alleged molestation occurred.
Jackson, 46, was not home yesterday when dozens of Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies showed up at his 2,700-acre ranch at 9 a.m. and began combing for clues.
Mesereau raced more than 150 miles from Los Angeles to the Los Olivos ranch to monitor the search, sources said. He could not be reached for comment.
The search came just three days before a key deadline in the criminal case when both sides are supposed to turn over all evidence, reports and witness statements they plan to use at trial, scheduled to begin Jan 31.
Jackson is charged with molesting a cancer patient, who was then 13, and conspiring to hold the boy and his family hostage at Neverland in early 2003. He has pleaded not guilty.
Jackson's family was furious about yesterday's raid. "Michael's parents are extremely upset. They consider this eleventh-hour search part of the district attorney's continued harassment of Michael," said lawyer Debra Opri.
In the past year, cops have executed at least 100 search warrants in the case and recently raided the home of Jackson's personal secretary Evi Tavasci.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/258857p-221653c.html
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En arvannutkaan että Sneddon on näin epätoivoinen! Joko tää on pelkkää PR-juonittelua tai sitten se yrittää viimeiseen asti löytää edes jotain todisteita MJ:n syyllisyydestä, jopa vielä paria päivää ennen kuin kaikki todisteet pitää luovuttaa... jokatapauksessa säälittävää...
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Vanhimmat
tässä on yksi hyvä puoli ja se on se että yli vuoden kestänyt juttu ja ei ainoatakaan todistetta jotka todista Jacksonin syylliseksi.Ainoa syyllinen tässä jutussa on Syyttävä perhe,Sneddon ja kaikki Amerikan Tabloid-journalistit ja lehdet.
Joo, olen ihan samaa mieltä. Yli 100 etsintäluvan jälkeen Sneddonilla ei ole vieläkään mitään todisteita...Uskomatonta että tälläinen voi jatkua näin pitkään, mutta ilmeisesti se tuomari joka on antanut nämä etsintäluvat on Sneddonin hyvä ystävä ja samassa juonessa hänen kanssaan. Mahtavaa! :/
heaven, huomasin vasta äskettäin että sinä olitkin jo aloittanut tästä aiheesta keskustelen! Sorry! :)
Joo kyllä näin on.
Mitäköhän se Sneddon nyt kuvittelee löytävänsä? Miksi tuomari koko ajan antaa hänelle luvan noihin etsintöihin vaikkei ne tuota tulosta? Ostaa varmaan pirtua Sneddonilta...
Niin että eipähän kukaan voi ainakaan väittää etteikö juttua olisi perinpohjin tutkittu. Putoaa pois pohja uusilta syytteiltä, mikäli MJ on syytön. Sneddon saataapi tehdä MJ:lle karhunpalveluksen.