Coverage of Michael Jackson trial, departure

(8 Mar 2005)

1. Michael Jackson and family arriving at court house
2. Pan Jackson and family passing through metal detectors and entering court
3. Close-up Jackson attorney followed by prosecutor Tom Sneddon arriving
4. Pan view of people leaving court for recess, including Michael Jackson
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Jim Moret, Senior Correspondent with ''Inside Edition'' and attorney:
"And this tape is the second tape that the jurors have heard which is potentially devastating to the prosecution. We hear over and over the mother, the brothers, the accuser, the sister saying over and over, ''Michael Jackson is the father figure'', ''he is the father we never had''. They recount the abuse that they say they experienced at the hand of the biological father. They talk about all of the wonderful things that Michael Jackson has done for them. The mother reiterated and said in response to a question on this tape, that in her opinion: ''Michael Jackson has done nothing inappropriate with these children.'' Again, this is the second time this jury has heard a tape under oath, in this case, where the family has said ''we love Michael Jackson - he has given us things we have never had, he''s the father we never had, we feel safe with him and we like being with him.''"
6. Various Jackson leaving court
7. Cutaway fan yelling
8. Pan view of cars leaving court house

ACCUSER''S BROTHER: JACKSON GROPED HIM

The younger brother of Michael Jackson''s accuser described for jurors in graphic detail on Monday, how he twice saw the pop star grope the child while the young boy lay sleeping in Jackson''s bed at his Neverland Ranch.

The brother also testified that Jackson showed them internet sex sites, gave them wine, slept in bed with them and appeared before them naked and sexually aroused at the pop star''s Neverland ranch.

"Me and my brother were watching a movie and Michael walked up naked," the 14-year-old witness testified. "Me and my brother were ''grossed out''. He sat on the bed and said it was natural," then left the room.

Speaking calmly, directly and unemotionally, he said the molestation occurred shortly after Jackson had shown the boys sexually explicit magazines that he kept in a suitcase in his bedroom.

District Attorney Tom Sneddon projected on a courtroom screen the covers of magazines including one called Barely Legal, which depicted an extremely young woman with her breasts exposed.

The boy said that after seeing Jackson with his hand in his brother''s underwear he witnessed another episode of what he described as masturbation two days later. He did not state the dates of the incidents, which the prosecution says followed a television documentary in February 2003 in which Jackson appeared with the boy at Neverland.

Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13 year-old cancer survivor at Neverland, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the family captive to get them to rebut the damaging documentary in which Jackson said he allowed children to sleep in his bedroom.

The defence is expected to attack the account as fiction designed by the children''s mother in an attempt to get money from the pop star.

The courtroom was still during the boy''s testimony. Sometimes the boy spoke softly and had to be told to speak up, but he did not hesitate to answer questions.

Jackson''s mother and father were present but showed no reaction. Jackson occasionally leaned over, put his hand on his lawyer''s shoulder and whispered in his ear. Jurors listened intently and a few took notes.


The boy said he answered no.



















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