Coverage of court proceedings

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:41:45 +0000

(5 Mar 2005)

1. Michael Jackson''s entourage waiting outside of black Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), man off camera chanting: "Michael"
2. LaToya Jackson waits for mother Katherine to get out of vehicle, Jermaine gets out of vehicle, Michael Jackson gets out of vehicle last, all walk toward courthouse, AUDIO of fans chanting: "Michael", "Jackson", "Michael we love you"
3. LaToya Jackson walks through metal detector, guard searches her with hand held metal detector, pan to Katherine Jackson being searched by guard
4. Jermaine Jackson walks through metal detector
5. Michael Jackson walks through metal detector, guard searches Jackson with hand held metal detector, Michael walks into courtroom
6. Jackson''s attorneys Susan Yu and Thomas Mesereau Jr. walking through detector and into courtroom
7. District Attorney Thomas Sneddon walking through metal detector and into courtroom
8. Various of Michael Jackson and entourage leaving court
9. UPSOUND (English): Reporter (off camera):
"Any plans for the weekend, Michael? How do you think this week went?"
9. UPSOUND (English) Michael Jackson, US Pop Star:
"It was very good, very good."
10. SOUNDBITE (English): Ann Bremner, legal analyst:
"I agree with Michael Jackson today. I think that it went very very well. And I think it started with the video at the end of the prosecutor''s direct examination. Because that video showed a lack of false imprisonment, a lack of duress, and a constant affirmation about Michael and how much the family loves him. He''s like a father and there is no inappropriate conduct by Michael. "
11. Jackson departing court, waves
12. SOUNDBITE (English): Raymone K. Bain, Jackson Family Spokesperson:
"Well, right now his mood is good. As all of us, this is the end of the week, so therefore I am sure he is looking forward to a couple days of rest."
13. Jackson and entourage walk to SUV

STORYLINE

A family now accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation was on Friday seen by jurors in a video praising him as a father figure, and the sister of the accuser testified under cross-examination that she had accused her own father of molesting her after her mother made the allegation.

Prosecutors showed jurors the video, which they claim was a staged and scripted response to a damaging documentary about Jackson.

"God worked through Michael to help us," the mother of the accuser said in the video, adding: "When we saw no hope, Michael said there was hope. ... We were broken and Michael fixed us."

As the pop star left court for the weekend after the trial''s first week of testimony, he told reporters: "It went very good, very good."

When asked about Michael Jackson''s mood, Jackson family spokesperson said that "right now his mood is good".

The video was played during testimony by the accuser''s 18-year-old sister, who told jurors on Thursday that Jackson''s associates had the family make the tape.

It was made about two weeks after a 2003 TV documentary in which her brother appeared with Jackson, who said he allowed the boy to sleep in his
bed while he slept on the floor.

During cross-examination intended to call the credibility of the accuser''s family into question, the witness acknowledged accusing her father, who is
divorced from her mother, of sexually abusing and imprisoning her and of making terrorist threats.

Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. asked the young woman if she had once told police she was being abused by her father five times a week, and she answered, "We were abused every day."

Mesereau asked if the father appeared to agree with the accusation, and she said yes.

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