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以下是引用musicco在2005-3-7 7:36:58的发言： 汗了…… 原来这样啊……翻译的时候是发现有些奇怪的地方……[em19] 这不过是那些喜欢把MJ做任何事都与财务危机挂钩的人的作品 甚至把地方检察官的外号都搞错了 人家是“MAD DOG”不是“BULLDOG”！这种专业精神啊```````，算了吧

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Michael Jackson's private eye goes public Was his role to keep an eye on Jackson's accusers or was it to keep them quiet? NBC News Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET March 6, 2005 Last week, the jury began hearing from the family of Jackson's young accuser. NBC's Chief Legal Correspondent Dan Abrams interviews a private eye who's now going public about the character and credibility of that family. But as you'll see, there are those who say his own role in the case, raises questions about his credibility. In a Web site statement Michael Jackson said: "Years ago, I allowed a family to visit and spend some time at Neverland. And so it began. The heart of the case -- what happened at Neverland when a young boy with cancer and his family spent time with Michael Jackson? Michael Jackson has said: "These events have caused a nightmare for my family, my children and me. I never intend to place myself in so vulnerable a position again." Exactly what did Michael Jackson mean by vulnerable? For the first time, a potential witness speaks out about Michael Jackson's accusers -- a family he saw up close, a family that describes him as “a terrible guy, an enforcer for the king of pop.” His name is Bradley Miller. He's a Los Angeles private eye whose role in the case begins in the winter of 2003, when he says Jackson's attorney at the time, Mark Geragos, hired him. His job, he says, was to monitor the family of the boy who appeared in the now famous British documentary, “Living with Michael Jackson” -- the same boy who would tell authorities months later that Jackson molested him. Miller says he got the call from Geragos just days after the documentary aired. Dan Abrams: Why did he want you to get involved? Bradley Miller: Apparently, this family had been up at Neverland with Michael and had made some threats of making up some story and contacting some tabloids. Abrams: So you're saying before any of these allegations were made, that Michael Jackson was worried that there were going to be false allegations made? Miller: I think he had come to the realization that they were probably capable of just about anything. According to Miller, the family had left Neverland after the uproar surrounding the documentary, and his job was to keep an eye on them. Abrams: And so are they sending the private eye out there to monitor them? Make sure they don't do anything? Miller: Well, it certainly wasn't to control them in anyway. It was to just keep a real, loose watch on who they were meeting with and what they were doing. Miller says that the family made it clear that they knew about a previous allegation against Michael Jackson. In 1993, a 13-year-old boy accused Jackson of molesting him. Jackson has denied ever harming a child, but he settled a civil suit with the boy's family for millions without admitting any wrongdoing -- information Miller says the current accuser's mother was ready to use to her advantage. Miller: She made it clear that she better get what she wants. Abrams: Or? Miller: She would have to go to the tabloids or to whoever would listen. Abrams: Did she ever tell you what she might say to the tabloids? Miller: Not specifically. No. Abrams: What did she suggest? Miller: She would suggest that it would be harmful to Michael and his reputation. Abrams: You think the boy was up to that, or just his mother? Miller: From what I understand, the boy, apparently, is also, or was, very much aware of the 1993 case. Abrams: So you think the 13 year old suffering from cancer is thinking about the big pay out from Michael Jackson? Miller: This family, every conversation I had with them, every meeting I had with them, any interaction with them, centered around either money, fame, celebrity and/or possessions. But Miller didn't name any tabloids the mother had tried to sell a story to. And he says he soon had another mission: get the family on the record. Miller: We then decided that before this goes any further, perhaps it's time to get a sworn statement from them stating what the circumstances were -- to have some record that in the future, if there were any allegations made, we would have something to refute it. Abrams: You wanted a sworn statement just in case? Miller: Just in case -- almost like an insurance policy. Miller says he called the accuser's mother a few days after the documentary aired and made arrangements to meet her to take an audio-taped statement about what had happened -- or had not happened -- at Neverland. Miller: I went over to the apartment of the mother's boyfriend in Los Angeles. And was welcomed, hugged, by every member of the family. Abrams: Were they intimidated? Miller: I was intimidated. I was going to a strange place. Nine o'clock at night, to an apartment where I knew no one. According to Miller, the mother never asked why it was necessary to make the tape. Abrams: You asked them, specifically, did anything sexual ever happen? Miller: I believe I asked if they were ever inappropriately touched or anything along those lines. Abrams: And their answers were unequivocal? Miller: Unequivocal. Abrams: What did the mother say? Miller: Michael would never do anything like that. Three nights later Miller joined the family at the home of Michael Jackson's videographer to make what has been called the "rebuttal video," where Jackson would counter criticism raised by the British documentary about his relationship with children. Miller says the video covered much of the same material in the audio interview. And yet, according to the indictment, about this same time Michael Jackson began molesting his young accuser. Abrams: Isn't it possible that Michael Jackson had not molested the boy before you spoke to him, but that later on he did the things that the boy claims and his brother claims? Miller: It makes no sense. Why would he? Especially with the eyes of the world on him. He says by March of 2003 the family was desperate and he was asked to help. Miller: She was moving in with her boyfriend and still had this small apartment on the east side of town where she was delinquent in her rent. She was facing eviction. And was there something I could do to get that apartment cleaned out and take care of whatever potential problems she could have there? Abrams: Right in the period where the prosecutors allege that Michael Jackson was molesting her son? Miller: That's what I understand is the allegation. Miller says he arranged for her belongings to be moved and stored in a locker, had her apartment cleaned and the whole thing videotaped. Abrams: She says that there were love letters from Michael Jackson to her son that you effectively got rid of? Miller: I would categorically deny that. Miller claims that no one had access to the storage locker except the accuser's mother. Abrams: It sounds a little odd. There's this woman who hasn't made any allegations, you say, against Michael Jackson at this time. There have been no criminal charges filed. And there's this high-powered, well-paid private investigator who is helping her move, videotaping the move, taking her statements, watching her at various times. Sounds a little odd, doesn't it? Miller: Not in light of what happened ten years earlier and the fiasco that that became. Abrams: You said that the mother was effectively threatening to go to the tabloids. And yet at that same time saying, "I'd do anything for Michael Jackson." It sounds contradictory. Miller: Of course. There's a great deal of contradictory statements and information in this case made by the accuser's fam-- accuser and his family. In a grand jury proceeding, the accuser's mother swore, under oath, money was the last thing she wanted from Michael Jackson: Question: Have you demanded money from Michael Jackson? Answer: Nothing. Nothing. Question: Do you want money from Michael Jackson? Answer: Nope. Never. I don't want the devil's money. Prosecutors portray Miller as part of a complicated operation launched by the Jackson team to limit the damage from the British documentary. Former Santa Barbara County sheriff and NBC News analyst Jim Thomas says he believes Miller's real job was not to prevent the family from going to the tabloids, but to make sure they participated in the rebuttal video. Jim Thomas: They needed this family, obviously, because the young boy, the accuser, was the one that was on the television with Michael Jackson when he said he likes to let boys sleep in his bed. And Thomas suggests Miller's surveillance may have had a more sinister aim. Thomas: If I had somebody with videotapes in front of my house, watching where I was going, who I was meeting with and what I was doing, I would feel intimidated over that. Miller claims he was trying to be helpful moving and storing the family's belongings. But William Dickerman, an attorney who represented the family, told Dateline last year he tried repeatedly with little success to get the belongings returned. William Dickerman: I wrote to Mr. Geragos many times asking for a description of what was being retained, where it was, who had access to it, when we would get it back. Thomas: I find it hard to believe that if they were trying to help the family that it would be so difficult to get their property back. And that audiotape Miller recorded -- he says he just recorded what the family wanted to say. Prosecutors told the jury that it is edited to make Michael Jackson look good. Thomas: The DA claimed that the tape was altered. If they didn't like the answer to a question, they would start over until they got the answer they wanted. Nine months later, after the accuser made the allegations to authorities, Santa Barbara sheriff's deputies swooped in searching Neverland, the home of the videographer and Miller's office, which they photographed. There, they seized those videotapes of the family, that audiotape of the interview and more. Miller talked to Dateline before he was subpoenaed as a witness. He says he's speaking out to tell his side of the story. Miller: I did nothing wrong. But there's no one there to protect me, no one's there to answer for me or to give what really happened. Miller has not been charged with any crime, but in the end, his role and the evidence seized from his office could be a key element for a jury that will have to decide whether Michael Jackson and his team went to great lengths to silence an accuser or whether Jackson was a victim himself. © 2005 MSNBC Interactive

Jackson hurt and embarrassed at courtroom allegations: publicist 16 minutes ago Entertainment - AFP SANTA MARIA, United States (AFP) - Embattled superstar Michael Jackson (news) is hurt and embarrassed by the graphic sex abuse testimony given against him by his accuser's brother, the star's publicist said. Jackson's spokeswoman Raymone Bain said the explosive eyewitness account of the alleged abuse of a young cancer patient given by the boy's teenage brother on Monday had hit Jackson hard. "The scurrilous and salacious accusations and details, all untrue, were hurtful and embarrassing to Mr Jackson," she said in a statement after the 14-year-old brother of Jackson's alleged victim testified for a second day. But she said that the start of cross-examination of the boy by the defence had made Jackson feel better than he had Monday when the teenager claimed he had twice seen the star fondling his brother while pleasuring himself. "Michael Jackson felt better today, at court's end, than he did on (Monday)," Bain said, adding that Jackson was confident that his lead lawyer Thomas Mesereau would "continue to evoke the truth. "He feels that Mr Mesereau is doing an excellent job," Bain said. On Monday, the alleged victim's brother told jurors in Jackson's child molestation trial in Santa Maria, California that he had stumbled upon the pop star abusing his brother on two occasions in February 2003. He also claimed that the pop star walked around naked and aroused in front of the boy and his brother, plied them with wine and exposed them to pornography. Jackson has denied 10 charges including molestation, giving the then 13-year-old cancer patient alcohol to seduce him and alleged conspiracies to kidnap the boy and his family and hold them prisoner until they agreed to make a film exonerating him of wrongdoing. Jackson befriended the boy when he was undergoing cancer treatment about five years ago and invited him and his family to his Neverland Ranch on several occasions.

Jackson attorneys oppose lifting gag order on Leno Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Posted: 1:37 PM EST (1837 GMT) SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Attorneys for Michael Jackson have formally objected to a request by Jay Leno to exempt the comedian from a gag order so that he can lampoon Jackson's legal woes on "The Tonight Show." "Mr. Leno is an accomplished entertainer and, usually, a genuinely funny man," Jackson's attorneys wrote in a court filing. "However, while the prosecution of Michael Jackson might be a convenient source of material, it is hardly crucial commentary on important political or social topics." Leno has been subpoenaed by the defense as a witness in the case. Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville has placed a gag order on all participants, including Jackson, lawyers and witnesses, in an effort to contain media attention. Jackson's lawyers argued that the gag order is necessary to protect Jackson's right to a fair trial and that it should apply to Leno just as it applies to other witnesses. "Entertainment personalities are not exempt," Jackson's lawyers said. Leno is being called to testify about an incident in which the family of Jackson's accuser contacted him, asking for financial help to pay for the boy's cancer treatment. Leno became suspicious about the call and contacted police, Jackson defense attorney Thomas Mesereau has said. Last week, Leno's attorneys filed a motion asking the court to clarify whether the gag order prevents him from talking about the case in his nightly monologue. If so, Leno wants the order amended so that it prevents him from talking only about firsthand information he has in the case. While he waits for the court's clarification, Leno has been bringing in other entertainers to deliver his monologues about Jackson while he stands silently by.

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Michael Jackson trial raises artist's profile By César G. Soriano, USA TODAY While attorneys in the Michael Jackson case paint two wildly different portraits of the pop star for the jury, artist Bill Robles is drawing the pictures that give the public a window into the courtroom. No TV cameras are allowed in the courtroom in Santa Maria, Calif., during Jackson's child molestation trial. So Robles and his colleagues are the sole visual link to the proceedings. Television networks, the Associated Press and several foreign media are Robles' main clients for the Jackson case. The pop star has proved challenging to draw. "He has a petite nose and prominent cheekbone alignment that comes down to the jaw. Fortunately, he has that big hair that almost covers it," Robles says. "If you don't hit him right on, people are going to say, 'Wow, that doesn't look like Jackson.' So there's a lot more pressure." But as the trial goes on, Robles has found it easier to capture Jackson's idiosyncrasies. "The more you do him, the easier he becomes. But sometimes I do him and I say, 'My God, who is that?' I just throw it away and start over." As for his opinion on Jackson's guilt or innocence, the artist says: "I'm not going to form an opinion until I hear the evidence." Jackson's is just the latest high-profile case Robles has covered in his long career, which began in 1970 with Charles Manson's trial. He has sat and sketched during the trials of O.J. Simpson, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and serial killer Richard Ramirez. "What's amazing is that in this day and age of satellites, digital this and digital that, I still have my $20 drawing pad, my pen and my colored markers," says Robles, who lives in Los Angeles. He declines to give his age except to say he's "younger than Dan Rather," who is 73. Robles says he has been a news junkie since childhood. During the 1950s, he spent three years in the U.S. Army, drawing murals and maps. After the Army, Robles was a student at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles when a classmate who worked at a CBS affiliate asked him to sketch the Manson trial. He has been freelancing ever since. His day rate is $400 per media outlet. "Jackson has already made my year, but, boy, it's going to be exhausting." The trial is expected to last up to five months. Robles, one of three courtroom artists covering the Jackson trial, usually draws six sketches a day. He can be creative. "You can edit out what you don't want, slightly move things for the sake of composition." But Nina Zacuto, who is producing the Jackson trial coverage for NBC News and has known Robles since 1979, says the artist is "very good at reproducing what you see in court. He's done a remarkable job of giving you a sense of what these people look like. He's really quick, and his style is very clean. I think everyone agrees that in terms of his sketches, he's the best in L.A." A few weeks ago, Robles made headlines when Jackson approached him to inquire about a drawing that showed the pop star with his three attorneys. "Jackson lit up like a candle when he saw it. He was totally fascinated," Robles says. One of Jackson's attorneys later offered to trade the pop star's autograph for a drawing. Robles' asking price for sketches is $650 and up, "depending on how famous" the subject is. He hasn't yet made a deal with Jackson's camp. "I think they have more important things to deal with than acquiring drawings." When he's not in the courtroom, Robles makes a living doing portraits. But he still loves watching the judicial process and its cast of characters. "Here I am 35 years later and still doing the highest-profile trial in history. I love what I'm doing."

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离开好久。153我来

以下是引用DDcat在2005-3-11 14:12:19的发言： 离开好久。153我来 20 之前去哪儿呢？ 我还以为你失踪了`````

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Did Jax reporter brief DA? http://www.nydailynews.com/03-15 ... 89942p-248206c.html Has Court TV's Diane Dimond helped prosecutors gather evidence in the Michael Jackson case? New Jersey businessman Henry Vaccaro Sr. claims that's exactly what she did last March, vowing to alert Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon after discovering a pair of soiled Calvin Klein briefs - presumably Jackson's - among the items in Vaccaro's extensive collection of Jackson family memorabilia in a warehouse in Asbury Park. The morning after Dimond's visit, Vaccaro told me yesterday, Sneddon personally phoned Vaccaro, said that Dimond had informed his office about the underwear and other potential evidence, and asked to borrow the items for use in the investigation. But Dimond, through a Court TV spokeswoman, insisted yesterday that she simply had sought comment from Sneddon's office "on some evidence that might be of interest to the prosecution." Yesterday, journalistic ethics expert Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalist, told me: "The standard is that journalists should try to avoid becoming an extension of law enforcement or any government agency." If Dimond did so, "that would be very unusual," Rosenstiel added. In her Court TV report last March on Vaccaro's collection, Dimond is shown daintily lifting the soiled briefs and speculating that they might contain "DNA evidence." When the camera was turned off, Vaccaro recalled, "she told me she was going to call the prosecutor about this." Dimond, who has tangled with Jackson defense attorney Thomas Mesereau, is known to many close observers of the trial for coverage that seems to favor the prosecution in her reports on Court TV, as an analyst for other television outlets and in a newspaper column. Dimond's behind-the-scenes contact with Sneddon's office was revealed in just-unsealed court papers involving litigation between Vaccaro and the Jacksons concerning who rightly owns the collection (which Vaccaro seized through a previous federal court judgment). In a Jan. 13, 2005, letter to Sneddon, requesting the return of the items, Vaccaro writes: "I was contacted by your office after Diane Dimond of Court TV informed you that there were various items of potential interest to you among the contents of a warehouse in Asbury Park, N.J."

Jackson spokeswoman says children continue to visit Neverland TIM MOLLOY Associated Press SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's criminal trial has not stemmed visits by youngsters to his Neverland ranch, his spokeswoman said. As Jackson attends his molestation trial, his staff regularly greets children who want to visit the singer's amusement park of a home, which includes a zoo, carnival rides, trains, an arcade and other entertainment, said spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain. "There are over 1,000 requests a month from organizations wanting to take children to Neverland," Bain said Monday outside the Santa Maria courthouse, about a 35-minute drive from the estate in rural Los Olivos. Bain said Jackson does not have time to interact with the children and very rarely sees them. She said one exception was around the holidays when he made a point of meeting children when they arrived at the ranch. Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy after plying him with alcohol and holding his family captive so they could help him rebut a damaging documentary in which he acknowledged sharing his bed with children. Prosecutors allege the molestation occurred in his bedroom at Neverland. Bain declined to name the organizations that have asked to bring children to the ranch. She has said that on court days Jackson wakes up by 4:30 a.m. and ends his days by having dinner with his three children and holding conferences with his attorneys. Bain also denied news reports last week that Neverland staff were threatening to walk out because Jackson has not paid them. "Those reports were grossly over exaggerated," she said. "The staff has been paid. They were paid early last week."

Michael Jackson prays with Jesse Jackson TIM MOLLOY Associated Press SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson has been starting his trial days by praying with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the minister and the singer's spokeswoman said Tuesday. Michael Jackson receives advice from the activist minister on both spiritual and personal issues, said Raymone K. Bain, the singer's spokeswoman. "He speaks to the Rev. Jesse Jackson every morning," Bain said after Jackson's child molestation case recessed for the afternoon Tuesday. "They've known each other for a long time." She said the singer usually wakes up at about 4:30 a.m., and talks to Rev. Jackson for 15 to 20 minutes. The two talk to each other by phone and pray together, she said. Earlier in the case the pop star received advice and security from members of the Nation of Islam. Rev. Jackson said in a telephone interview that the entertainer and his family are Jehovah's Witnesses and the prayer they share is nondenominational. Rev. Jackson said he speaks to the entertainer in the morning and the evening. "I counsel him and his family," he said. He said his main message to them is to "stay focused." "He is serious. He is focused," Rev. Jackson said of the pop star's demeanor. "This is a difficulty for all involved, the accuser and the accused. ... He will survive this," Rev. Jackson said. He also said that it was unfair that Michael Jackson's jury has no black members and he challenged a reporter to imagine a situation in which a white person would be charged with molestation and have a predominantly black jury.