Trial Update
Thursday March 24

The prosecution may have lost a witness against Michael Jackson. Christopher Carter, one of Michael Jackson's bodyguards, is sitting in jail in Las Vegas, charged with robbing a Jack in the Box at gunpoint in January. Smoking Gun has the Las Vegas arrest warrant affidavit. Carter testified at the grand jury, providing statements the accuser made to him about the use of alchohol at Neverland. But will the prosecution still want to use him? I think its doubtful, unless the prosecution can convince the Judge not to let the jury know about the recent charges or his current residency in the Clark County jail.

In other Jackson news, the Judge has ruled the prosecution cannot introduce sexually explicit heterosexual images from Jackson's computers.

...defense lawyers argued that none of the material was from February and March of 2003, the period during which Jackson is accused of sexually molesting the then-13-year-old boy and that prosecutors could not prove that it was accessed by the singer.

The judge agreed. "The court will grant the defense motion not to allow (the material)," Melville said. "It does appear to be cached material. There's no way of knowing if anyone looked at it or not."

And in still further developments, Jackson attorney Brian Oxman, was taken by ambulance from the courtroom to a hospital.