Michael Jacksonin oikeudenkäynnissä kuultiin eilen häntä syyttävän pojan, Gavin Arvizon todistus ja puolustuksen ristikuulustelu, jossa poika tunnusti kertoneensa opettajalleen, ettei Jackson ahdistellut häntä.
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ACCUSER ADMITS: [MICHAEL] "...DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO ME."
Accuser's Admission a Blow to the Prosecution
"After a week of (frankly) dubious testimony from the Prosecution's witnesses (see At a Glance) the already- laughable 'case' against Michael Jackson has endured another massive blow. Once again, it was a witness for the Prosecution that did it. And this time, it was the star witness himself - Michael's accuser, Gavin Arvizo.
Under cross-examination by lead defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, Arvizo was questioned about a conversation he had with Jeffrey Alpert, the dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles.
According to Mesereau, Alpert told Arvizo, "Look at me, look at me. ... I can't help you unless you tell me the truth - did any of this happen?"
"I told Dean Alpert he didn't do anything to me," replied Arvizo, "I told him twice."
Furthermore, that conversation with Dean Alpert took place after the dates the alleged abuse happened, but before the family met with Stanley J. Katz.
Katz was the Beverly Hills psychologist of Jordan Chandler, the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation in 1993.
Tom Sneddon's Triad
According to a February 2004 NBC Today Show report by Mike Taibbi, Katz is just one of three key figures in the prosecution's triad who also were involved in the allegations made against Michael more than ten years ago. (Tom Sneddon and Larry Feldman complete the trio.)
Taibbi postulated that "...the names common to both cases suggest an agenda, even a vendetta."
The most outstanding piece of news taken from that report (but largely overlooked by the world's press then and now) was a quote from Dr. Katz addressing the Accuser; "Look, if you go ahead with this... ...your family will get money if they win."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7181495/
ACCUSER ADMITS TELLING TEACHER HE WAS NOT MOLESTED
Mesereau questions 15-year-old about changes in testimony
Michael Jackson arrives with his father Joe Jackson, at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif., on Monday as week 3 of his child molestation trial begins.
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 8:52 p.m. ET March 14, 2005 SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The teenage boy who says Michael Jackson molested him acknowledged under cross-examination Monday that he told an administrator at his school the pop star “didn’t do anything to me,” and that Jackson was like a father to him.
Striking at the heart of the prosecution’s allegations of child molestation and conspiracy, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. confronted the now-15-year-old boy with a video tribute by the boy and his family in which they credited Jackson with changing their lives and helping to cure the boy of cancer.
The video had already been shown in the trial twice. This time, Mesereau stopped it repeatedly to ask if the boy and his family were lying. In most instances, the boy said they were speaking the truth.
“Michael was nice to me,” he testified. “I felt like he was a father to me.”
Prosecutors allege Jackson’s associates had the boy’s family make the video after the broadcast of an infamous documentary in which Jackson said he allowed the boy to sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. The prosecution claims the rebuttal video was staged and scripted.
Mesereau asked if the family turned on Jackson and invented the molestation story because they were being evicted from his Neverland ranch.
“We realized he wasn’t as nice a guy as we thought he was,” the boy said.
Earlier, the teenager was asked about conversations he had with Jeffrey Alpert, the dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles, where the boy had a history of acting up in class.
“I told Dean Alpert he didn’t do anything to me,” the boy said. “I told him twice.”
Prosecutors allege Jackson, 46, plied the boy with alcohol and molested him at his Neverland Ranch in 2003.
The pop star, who was threatened with arrest when he failed to show up in court on time Thursday, arrived on schedule Monday. Unlike last time, when a disheveled Jackson finally arrived in a coat, T-shirt and pajama bottoms, he wore a smart red jacket with a black armband and black slacks. His parents escorted him inside.
Mesereau, during his cross-examination, quoted Alpert as telling the youngster: “Look at me, look at me. ... I can’t help you unless you tell me the truth — did any of this happen?”
When asked when the conversation occurred, the boy said: “I believe it was after I came back from Neverland.”
It was not clear in court why the dean asked the boy about Jackson. However, when the television documentary aired in 2003, the boy was shown in it.
Also during cross-examination, the boy denied instances of being caught drinking wine at Neverland, reading “girlie magazines” and masturbating in a guest house while Jackson wasn’t around. He also denied he ever spoke to Jay Leno, but said he once placed a call to the comedian from a hospital and left a message on an answering machine.
The defense, which claims the family sought to get money from celebrities, has said Leno alerted police after a call from the boy because he thought the family was looking for a “mark.”
Mesereau also cross-examined the accuser about similarities between a statement he testified Jackson made about masturbation and an earlier statement the boy attributed to his grandmother.
On Thursday, the boy testified Jackson had told him if men do not masturbate, they might rape women. Mesereau noted the boy told sheriff’s investigators in an interview his grandmother had told him the same thing.
“Why did your story change between that interview and your testimony last Thursday?” Mesereau asked.
The boy denied changing his story. He said both his grandmother and Jackson had told him the same thing, but the context was different.
“She was telling me it was OK to do it, and Michael was saying you have to do it,” the boy said.
At he left court Monday, Jackson told reporters: “Mesereau did a great job.”
http://www.mjni.com/
ACCUSER ADMITS: [MICHAEL] "...DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO ME."
Accuser's Admission a Blow to the Prosecution
"After a week of (frankly) dubious testimony from the Prosecution's witnesses (see At a Glance) the already- laughable 'case' against Michael Jackson has endured another massive blow. Once again, it was a witness for the Prosecution that did it. And this time, it was the star witness himself - Michael's accuser, Gavin Arvizo.
Under cross-examination by lead defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, Arvizo was questioned about a conversation he had with Jeffrey Alpert, the dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles.
According to Mesereau, Alpert told Arvizo, "Look at me, look at me. ... I can't help you unless you tell me the truth - did any of this happen?"
"I told Dean Alpert he didn't do anything to me," replied Arvizo, "I told him twice."
Furthermore, that conversation with Dean Alpert took place after the dates the alleged abuse happened, but before the family met with Stanley J. Katz.
Katz was the Beverly Hills psychologist of Jordan Chandler, the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation in 1993.
Tom Sneddon's Triad
According to a February 2004 NBC Today Show report by Mike Taibbi, Katz is just one of three key figures in the prosecution's triad who also were involved in the allegations made against Michael more than ten years ago. (Tom Sneddon and Larry Feldman complete the trio.)
Taibbi postulated that "...the names common to both cases suggest an agenda, even a vendetta."
The most outstanding piece of news taken from that report (but largely overlooked by the world's press then and now) was a quote from Dr. Katz addressing the Accuser; "Look, if you go ahead with this... ...your family will get money if they win."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7181495/
ACCUSER ADMITS TELLING TEACHER HE WAS NOT MOLESTED
Mesereau questions 15-year-old about changes in testimony
Michael Jackson arrives with his father Joe Jackson, at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif., on Monday as week 3 of his child molestation trial begins.
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 8:52 p.m. ET March 14, 2005 SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The teenage boy who says Michael Jackson molested him acknowledged under cross-examination Monday that he told an administrator at his school the pop star “didn’t do anything to me,” and that Jackson was like a father to him.
Striking at the heart of the prosecution’s allegations of child molestation and conspiracy, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. confronted the now-15-year-old boy with a video tribute by the boy and his family in which they credited Jackson with changing their lives and helping to cure the boy of cancer.
The video had already been shown in the trial twice. This time, Mesereau stopped it repeatedly to ask if the boy and his family were lying. In most instances, the boy said they were speaking the truth.
“Michael was nice to me,” he testified. “I felt like he was a father to me.”
Prosecutors allege Jackson’s associates had the boy’s family make the video after the broadcast of an infamous documentary in which Jackson said he allowed the boy to sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. The prosecution claims the rebuttal video was staged and scripted.
Mesereau asked if the family turned on Jackson and invented the molestation story because they were being evicted from his Neverland ranch.
“We realized he wasn’t as nice a guy as we thought he was,” the boy said.
Earlier, the teenager was asked about conversations he had with Jeffrey Alpert, the dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles, where the boy had a history of acting up in class.
“I told Dean Alpert he didn’t do anything to me,” the boy said. “I told him twice.”
Prosecutors allege Jackson, 46, plied the boy with alcohol and molested him at his Neverland Ranch in 2003.
The pop star, who was threatened with arrest when he failed to show up in court on time Thursday, arrived on schedule Monday. Unlike last time, when a disheveled Jackson finally arrived in a coat, T-shirt and pajama bottoms, he wore a smart red jacket with a black armband and black slacks. His parents escorted him inside.
Mesereau, during his cross-examination, quoted Alpert as telling the youngster: “Look at me, look at me. ... I can’t help you unless you tell me the truth — did any of this happen?”
When asked when the conversation occurred, the boy said: “I believe it was after I came back from Neverland.”
It was not clear in court why the dean asked the boy about Jackson. However, when the television documentary aired in 2003, the boy was shown in it.
Also during cross-examination, the boy denied instances of being caught drinking wine at Neverland, reading “girlie magazines” and masturbating in a guest house while Jackson wasn’t around. He also denied he ever spoke to Jay Leno, but said he once placed a call to the comedian from a hospital and left a message on an answering machine.
The defense, which claims the family sought to get money from celebrities, has said Leno alerted police after a call from the boy because he thought the family was looking for a “mark.”
Mesereau also cross-examined the accuser about similarities between a statement he testified Jackson made about masturbation and an earlier statement the boy attributed to his grandmother.
On Thursday, the boy testified Jackson had told him if men do not masturbate, they might rape women. Mesereau noted the boy told sheriff’s investigators in an interview his grandmother had told him the same thing.
“Why did your story change between that interview and your testimony last Thursday?” Mesereau asked.
The boy denied changing his story. He said both his grandmother and Jackson had told him the same thing, but the context was different.
“She was telling me it was OK to do it, and Michael was saying you have to do it,” the boy said.
At he left court Monday, Jackson told reporters: “Mesereau did a great job.”
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Vanhimmat
Eikös tämän pojan vanhemmat ole joskus aiemmin vienyt oikeuteen jonkun toisen miehen syyttäen häntäkin poikansa seksuaalisesta hyväksikäytöstä. Aika julmia vanhempia jos käyttävät rahan toivossa poikaansa tuollaisena pelinappulana.
Tätä kyseenomaista todistusta pitäisin täysin tyhjän arvoisena...
Vrt. Opettaja kysyy uudenvuoden jälkeen oppilaalta koulussa josko poika olisi tietämään jotain heidän bensalla räjäytetystä postilaatikostaan kun paikalla on kuulemma nähty pojan lähistöllä asuvia poikia...
Poika vastaa kieltävästi.
Voiko pojan todistusta pitää luotettavana?
...kun siihen lisätään vielä se, että sekä Gavinin veli että sisko myönsivät valehdelleensa oikeudelle, niin eiköhän epäilykset ole enemmän kuin aiheellisia.
Oikeudenkäynnissä ilmenneitä asioita:
1. Gavin (Jacksonia syyttävä poika) myönsi kertoneensa opettajalleen, ettei väitettyä hyväksikäyttöä koskaan tapahtunut. Hän myös valehteli, ettei koskaan ollut puhunut puhelimessa Jay Lenon kanssa.
2. Hänen sisarensa myönsi valehdelleensa oikeudessa.
3. Gavinin ja hänen veljensä kertomukset menivät hieman ristiin; toinen väittää Jacksonin juottaneen Gavinille alkoholia keittiössä, kun taas toinen todisti kyseisen teon tapahtuneen viinikellarissa.
4. Perhe kävi shoppailemassa Jacksonin rahoilla sen JÄLKEEN kun heitä väitetysti pidettiin "vankeina" Neverlandissa.
5. Syyttäjä ei ole esittänyt konkreettista todistusaineistoa. Jacksonin makuuhuoneesta ei löytynyt Gavinin DNA:ta.
Päätelkää itse kukin noista seikoista, kumman case on heikompi; syyttäjän vai Jacksonin? =)