Ahora mismo no puedo traducir porque estoy preparando el foro para mañana, pero aquí tenéis un artículo con bastante información nueva, siento que esté en inglés. Sacado del KOP:
Linda Deutsch
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:22 p.m. June 2, 2005
SANTA MARIA – A prosecutor portrayed Michael Jackson Thursday as a sexual predator presiding over "a world of the forbidden" in his bedroom, with young boys as his prey, but the defense countered that the accuser's family consisted of "con artists, actors and liars."
In a methodical closing argument in the pop star's child molestation trial, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen berated Jackson and his attorneys, stood by the testimony of the accuser's mother, and used charts and graphics to show what he said was a pattern of criminal behavior.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau countered in his closing argument that the prosecution revealed the weakness of its case by attacking him.
"Whenever a prosecutor does that you know they're in trouble," Mesereau told the panel, which is expected to get the case on Friday. "This is not a popularity contest between lawyers."
In rapid-fire delivery he attacked the accuser's family, the accuser himself ands prosecutors.
He said the family and others clearly are planning to sue Jackson after the trial.
"Everyone is looking for a big payday at the expense of Michael Jackson," Mesereau said. "There's going to be great celebration in this group if he's convicted of one single count in the case."
He noted that many prosecution witnesses have sued Jackson in the past and some have lost.
"Aren't they all after millions from Michael Jackson? Haven't you seen one after another come in this courtroom who sued Michael Jackson? They're all lined up," he said.
Prosecutors, he said, engaged in an a "mean-spirited, nasty attempt, a barbaric attempt" to attack Jackson personally by bringing up his financial problems, collection of adult magazines and "sagging music career."
Mesereau also showed charts suggesting it was ridiculous to believe that during a time when Jackson was under international scrutiny he would then choose to commit molestation.
Zonen argued for nearly two hours before he even brought up child molestation, focusing first on a complicated conspiracy alleging Jackson sought to hold the accuser's family against their will.
He said it was toward the end of a period in which a 13-year-old cancer survivor and his family stayed at Jackson's Neverland ranch that "the behavior had turned to something terribly illegal."
Zonen said Jackson began giving the boy alcohol and even though his mother at that time was unaware of any molestation she insisted that her family leave Neverland.
"For all her shortcomings, (the mother), after learning Michael Jackson was giving her son alcohol, in 36 hours she had her children out of there," Zonen said.
He depicted Neverland, Jackson's fantasy estate and amusement park, as a place with no rules, no schooling and no discipline for children who stayed there.
"They rode rides, went to the zoo, ate whatever they wanted – candy, ice cream, soda pop. There was only fun. ... And at night they entered into the world of the forbidden. Michael Jackson's room was a veritable fortress with locks and codes which the boys were given ... They learned about sexuality from someone only too willing to be their teacher."
The prosecutor referred to nights when both the boy and his brother stayed in Jackson's room and said the stage was set for molestation.
"It began with discussions of masturbation and nudity. It began with simulating a sex act with a mannequin," Zonen said.
He told jurors that Jackson had carefully chosen the kind of boys he wanted to prey upon.
"The lion on the Serengeti doesn't go after the strongest antelope," he told jurors. "The predator goes after the weakest."
Referring to the boy's testimony, he suggested that the courtroom scared the teenager.
"It was intimidating. It's intimidating for me. ... He had been molested by a man he once held in high regard," Zonen said.
The prosecutor ridiculed the idea that the boy's mother could have made up the entire story and prompted her children to lie in order to get wealthy at a future time.
"The suggestion this was all made up is nonsense," he said. "It's unmitigated rubbish."
Zonen spoke of boys that the prosecution claims were Jackson's victims in 1993, saying that witnesses who described seeing them being inappropriately touched should be believed.
He said the son of a Jackson maid who testified for the prosecution that he was molested during tickle games was "beyond reproach."
Jackson, 46, is charged with molesting the boy in 2003, plying him with wine and conspiring to hold his family captive to get them to rebut the documentary "Living With Michael Jackson," in which Jackson held hands with the boy and said he let children into his bed but it was non-sexual.
Zonen also projected on a large screen pages from books about male sexuality. Of one of them, he said, "This is a study of what two men are able to do with each other. The pictures are absolutely graphic. This is a publication you are not going to find on anyone's coffee table."
He added, "Are you comfortable with a middle-aged man who possesses this book getting into bed with a13-year-old boy?"
The prosecutor also showed again heterosexual adult material from Jackson's collection of magazines and said jurors should understand these were part of the "grooming process" intended to get boys aroused.
"These were not for him," he said. "These were for the boys."
Mesereau responded that Jackson wasn't charged with possessing illegal pornography because everything in his home was legal, that no child pornography was found in his home or computers, and that prosecutors used the adult magazines just to make the singer look bad.
"They have dirtied him up because he's human. But they haven't proven their case because they can't," the defense attorney said.
Mesereau suggested the accuser and his brother feigned innocence on sexual matters. In a video of the accuser's first interview with sheriff's investigators "he acts like he doesn't know what an erection is. He's 13," the attorney said.
Mesereau also said the boy was unemotional as he described the alleged molestation in the video and in testimony. He asked jurors to remember the boy's demeanor on the stand.
"You saw no emotion whatsoever. When did you see him really get angry? When he talked about Michael Jackson abandoning his family," Mesereau said.
Zonen, addressing use of alcohol at Neverland, said, "Michael Jackson has a drinking problem."
Zonen spent much of his argument attacking Jackson's current and former lawyers.
He accused Mesereau of promising things in his opening statement which he could not produce, including mentioning celebrities who would testify who never appeared.
He lashed out at Jackson's former attorney, Mark Geragos, accusing him of lying under oath when he pleaded a faulty recollection of conversations with unindicted alleged co-conspirators in the case.
"He received $180,000 in his first three weeks of representing Michael Jackson and he could not sit up here and tell you about one conversation. ... Mark Geragos' testimony simply was not true," he said.
Zonen was defensive in talking about the boy's mother, one of the most erratic witnesses of the trial.
"(She) never asked for one penny from Michael Jackson," he said. "She never desired anything form him and she doesn't today."
He acknowledged she fraudulently applied for welfare after receiving a large settlement in a lawsuit, but asserted that was the only thing she had been proven to have done wrong in her life.
Associated Press Writer Tim Molloy contributed to this report.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/2...aeljackson.html
Linda Deutsch
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:22 p.m. June 2, 2005
SANTA MARIA – A prosecutor portrayed Michael Jackson Thursday as a sexual predator presiding over "a world of the forbidden" in his bedroom, with young boys as his prey, but the defense countered that the accuser's family consisted of "con artists, actors and liars."
In a methodical closing argument in the pop star's child molestation trial, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen berated Jackson and his attorneys, stood by the testimony of the accuser's mother, and used charts and graphics to show what he said was a pattern of criminal behavior.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau countered in his closing argument that the prosecution revealed the weakness of its case by attacking him.
"Whenever a prosecutor does that you know they're in trouble," Mesereau told the panel, which is expected to get the case on Friday. "This is not a popularity contest between lawyers."
In rapid-fire delivery he attacked the accuser's family, the accuser himself ands prosecutors.
He said the family and others clearly are planning to sue Jackson after the trial.
"Everyone is looking for a big payday at the expense of Michael Jackson," Mesereau said. "There's going to be great celebration in this group if he's convicted of one single count in the case."
He noted that many prosecution witnesses have sued Jackson in the past and some have lost.
"Aren't they all after millions from Michael Jackson? Haven't you seen one after another come in this courtroom who sued Michael Jackson? They're all lined up," he said.
Prosecutors, he said, engaged in an a "mean-spirited, nasty attempt, a barbaric attempt" to attack Jackson personally by bringing up his financial problems, collection of adult magazines and "sagging music career."
Mesereau also showed charts suggesting it was ridiculous to believe that during a time when Jackson was under international scrutiny he would then choose to commit molestation.
Zonen argued for nearly two hours before he even brought up child molestation, focusing first on a complicated conspiracy alleging Jackson sought to hold the accuser's family against their will.
He said it was toward the end of a period in which a 13-year-old cancer survivor and his family stayed at Jackson's Neverland ranch that "the behavior had turned to something terribly illegal."
Zonen said Jackson began giving the boy alcohol and even though his mother at that time was unaware of any molestation she insisted that her family leave Neverland.
"For all her shortcomings, (the mother), after learning Michael Jackson was giving her son alcohol, in 36 hours she had her children out of there," Zonen said.
He depicted Neverland, Jackson's fantasy estate and amusement park, as a place with no rules, no schooling and no discipline for children who stayed there.
"They rode rides, went to the zoo, ate whatever they wanted – candy, ice cream, soda pop. There was only fun. ... And at night they entered into the world of the forbidden. Michael Jackson's room was a veritable fortress with locks and codes which the boys were given ... They learned about sexuality from someone only too willing to be their teacher."
The prosecutor referred to nights when both the boy and his brother stayed in Jackson's room and said the stage was set for molestation.
"It began with discussions of masturbation and nudity. It began with simulating a sex act with a mannequin," Zonen said.
He told jurors that Jackson had carefully chosen the kind of boys he wanted to prey upon.
"The lion on the Serengeti doesn't go after the strongest antelope," he told jurors. "The predator goes after the weakest."
Referring to the boy's testimony, he suggested that the courtroom scared the teenager.
"It was intimidating. It's intimidating for me. ... He had been molested by a man he once held in high regard," Zonen said.
The prosecutor ridiculed the idea that the boy's mother could have made up the entire story and prompted her children to lie in order to get wealthy at a future time.
"The suggestion this was all made up is nonsense," he said. "It's unmitigated rubbish."
Zonen spoke of boys that the prosecution claims were Jackson's victims in 1993, saying that witnesses who described seeing them being inappropriately touched should be believed.
He said the son of a Jackson maid who testified for the prosecution that he was molested during tickle games was "beyond reproach."
Jackson, 46, is charged with molesting the boy in 2003, plying him with wine and conspiring to hold his family captive to get them to rebut the documentary "Living With Michael Jackson," in which Jackson held hands with the boy and said he let children into his bed but it was non-sexual.
Zonen also projected on a large screen pages from books about male sexuality. Of one of them, he said, "This is a study of what two men are able to do with each other. The pictures are absolutely graphic. This is a publication you are not going to find on anyone's coffee table."
He added, "Are you comfortable with a middle-aged man who possesses this book getting into bed with a13-year-old boy?"
The prosecutor also showed again heterosexual adult material from Jackson's collection of magazines and said jurors should understand these were part of the "grooming process" intended to get boys aroused.
"These were not for him," he said. "These were for the boys."
Mesereau responded that Jackson wasn't charged with possessing illegal pornography because everything in his home was legal, that no child pornography was found in his home or computers, and that prosecutors used the adult magazines just to make the singer look bad.
"They have dirtied him up because he's human. But they haven't proven their case because they can't," the defense attorney said.
Mesereau suggested the accuser and his brother feigned innocence on sexual matters. In a video of the accuser's first interview with sheriff's investigators "he acts like he doesn't know what an erection is. He's 13," the attorney said.
Mesereau also said the boy was unemotional as he described the alleged molestation in the video and in testimony. He asked jurors to remember the boy's demeanor on the stand.
"You saw no emotion whatsoever. When did you see him really get angry? When he talked about Michael Jackson abandoning his family," Mesereau said.
Zonen, addressing use of alcohol at Neverland, said, "Michael Jackson has a drinking problem."
Zonen spent much of his argument attacking Jackson's current and former lawyers.
He accused Mesereau of promising things in his opening statement which he could not produce, including mentioning celebrities who would testify who never appeared.
He lashed out at Jackson's former attorney, Mark Geragos, accusing him of lying under oath when he pleaded a faulty recollection of conversations with unindicted alleged co-conspirators in the case.
"He received $180,000 in his first three weeks of representing Michael Jackson and he could not sit up here and tell you about one conversation. ... Mark Geragos' testimony simply was not true," he said.
Zonen was defensive in talking about the boy's mother, one of the most erratic witnesses of the trial.
"(She) never asked for one penny from Michael Jackson," he said. "She never desired anything form him and she doesn't today."
He acknowledged she fraudulently applied for welfare after receiving a large settlement in a lawsuit, but asserted that was the only thing she had been proven to have done wrong in her life.
Associated Press Writer Tim Molloy contributed to this report.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/2...aeljackson.html
Esto es lo que dice Mez en el 2º parrafo:
