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Zoren said that Jackson brought the boys to Neverland, where rules
never applied. He would parade around naked, simulate sex acts and
show the boys pornography designed to appeal to heterosexual teenagers
The defense attorney Thomas A. Mesereau said, "This is not
a popularity contest between lawyers. The question here is the life
and freedom of Michael Jackson. I submit based on the witnesses
and the evidence you have seen, there is no way you can find that
they (the family) are truthful beyond a reasonable doubt. "There
is no way you can convict Michael Jackson."
Media reports indicate that Jackson looked tired and slightly fed
up at the proceedings. Yesterday three of his brothers and their
parents came to the US court to lend their support to the singer.
There is no independent corroboration of the molestation. This
means that the jurors will have to decide whether the accuser's
testimony is credible. Mesereau portrayed the family of the accuser
as greedy opportunists who used the boy's cancer to take advantage
of a gullible and overly generous star. He called them con artists,
actors and liars. He said the accuser and his brother had perjured
themselves when they testified.
"This is a family where children have been taught to con and
children have been taught to lie,"
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