2005 trial of Michael Jackson

In 2005, Michael Jackson went to trial on child molestation charges. The alleged victim was a boy, Gavin Arvizo, referred to as "the accuser." Arvizo was 13 years old at the time of the alleged crimes. Michael Jackson was indicted for conspiracy with five (unindicted) co-conspirators to abduct the accuser, his sister, and his brother, falsely imprison and extort the same children and their mother, and for sexually molesting the accuser. On June 13, 2005, the jury found Jackson not guilty on all charges.

External links

• MJJSource – Michael Jackson Official Website.
• "Jackson Not Guilty", article by CNN reporting the verdict on June 13, 2005.
• Mary Fischer GQ Article: "Was Michael Jackson framed?"
• Magpie's Michael Jackson Case Page
• Testimony of 12 y. o. J. Chandler (The Smoking Gun Magazine)
• E! Online: The Michael Jackson File – From Superstar to Suspect, Complete Coverage of Trouble in Neverland
• Court TV Special Report: Michael Jackson Accused
• Michael Jackson Trial Watch
• Aerial photograph of Neverland, and more

News

• Michael Jackson Trial Watch
• E! Online: The Michael Jackson File – From Superstar to Suspect, Complete Coverage of Trouble in Neverland
• Court TV Special Report: Michael Jackson Accused
• MJNewsOnline.com: Latest Michael Jackson News (Pro-Jackson Website)
• Timeline of news
• News Briefs: Fans rejoice Michael Jackson acquittal
• Chaos 2004: the Michael Jackson trial

Police and courts

• Opening statements of the trial, by prosecution and defense, including the indictment: http://www.mjj2005.com/transcripts/MJJCaseOpeningStatements1.pdf http://www.mjj2005.com/transcripts/MJJCaseOpeningStatements2.pdf http://www.mjj2005.com/transcripts/MJJCaseOpeningStatements3.pdf http://www.mjj2005.com/transcripts/MJCourtTranscript-March012005.pdf (pdf)
• applicable sections of California Penal Code:
• count 1, overt acts 1-28: 182(a)(1) - conspiracy, involving unlawful controlling, withholding, concealing, enticing, and threatening the accuser, his mother, his sister, and his brother, to commit:
• 236 - false imprisonment
• 278 - child abduction
• 518 - extortion
• count 2-6: 288(a) - lewd act upon a child: four times plus one attempt (664): two times (counts 2 and 3) reported by the accuser, two times (counts 4 and 5) witnessed by his brother, while the accuser slept, and an attempt to have the accuser perform a non-penetrative sexual act on Jackson (count 6). 288(a) should not be confused with 288a.
• counts 7-10: 222 - administering alcohol to enable and assist oneself to do this (four times); in June 2005 Melville ruled that alternatively the jury can consider the lesser charge of just supplying alcohol to the accuser.
• Evidence Code 1108 - allowing in a sexual offense trial, evidence that the defendant has committed another sexual offense, as evidence of a person's character or a trait of his or her character
• Trial transcripts: http://www.mjjforum.com/main/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=0&func=selectcat&cat=4&orderby=4 (not after 11 April and not 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28 (2nd part), 30 March, 1 April)
• Overview of court days
• Transcripts of questionings before the Grand Jury
• Sheriff and DA
• Tom Sneddon vendetta theory: Site investigating evidence against Santa Barbara DA T. Sneddon, alleging malicious prosecution
• The Smoking Gun: List of items seized from Neverland (but with large parts erased)
• Felony complaint, Dec 2003
• DCFS memo
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nndb.com%2Fpeople%2F698%2F000030608%2F&btnG=Google+Search -accuser info

click on the first link to get into the website.

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Interviews

• michaeljackson.ru
• mjshouse.com
• CBS News
• USA Today: Neverland