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Jackson defence rests its case. What so fast ?
|| The defence has rested its case in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial without putting the pop star on the stand, wrapping up after a surprisingly short three weeks devoted mostly to portraying the accuser’s mother as a fraudster who targeted celebrities.
Jurors could begin as early as the middle of next week to decide whether Mr Jackson should be convicted of molesting a teenage cancer patient at his Neverland ranch.
Defence lawyers portrayed the pop star as the victim of false charges that surfaced once the boy’s mother realised she was being weaned from a lavish lifestyle that the singer had financed. A series of witnesses testified that the mother had made a career of getting money from celebrities and defrauding others.
Michael Jackson did not take the stand, as defencee lawyers had hinted at the trial’s start, and only a few of the celebrities who were on the list of possible witnesses ended up in court. Absent were Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Wonder, and Kobe Bryant.
The actor and comedia Chris Tucker was the final witness for the defence today, saying that during the time he befriended Mr Jackson’s young accuser he found the boy to be unusually sophisticated and cunning for a 12-year-old.
“He was really smart and he was cunning at times, and his brother … was definitely cunning,” Mr Tucker said. ||