Jackson Trial Update
Thursday May 5, 2005

The Judge denied Michael Jackson's motion for acquittal today, saying the issues were factual and therefore up to the jury. Jackson lawyer Robert Sanger nicely summed up a major problem with the case: the timeline is absurd.

"Sanger argued ....prosecutors were asking jurors to accept the far-fetched claim that Jackson's camp had been thrown into a panic after a 2003 televised documentary aired showing him holding hands with his accuser and defending his practice of sharing his bed with children."

"It was only then, with the world watching and his career in the balance, that prosecutors claim Jackson abused the boy, a recovering cancer patient, Sanger said. "The timeline is inherently preposterous," he said."

The defense has begun presenting its case. The first witness was Wade Robson who said that he had slept in Jackson's bed 20 times as a child and Jackson never molested him or touched him inappropriately.