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[ominous music playing]
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[man 1] Mr. Jackson, uh… [clears throat]
…we're back here after the lunch break.
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Did anything occur over the lunch break
that, uh, would affect your ability
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to recall or recount information?
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No.
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[man 1] Are you familiar with a person
named Jordy Chandler?
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- Who?
- [man 2] We're not going there.
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Don't answer.
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We're not going to get into
who he knows and doesn't know.
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If you want to ask a question,
go ahead and ask it, but…
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I believe it's beyond the scope
of discoverable matters in the case.
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[Ron] Michael Jackson
is sitting there smiling.
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Of course he knows Jordy Chandler.
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[man 1] Is it your position
that you will instruct Mr. Jackson
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not to answer any questions
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that pertain to the issue
of Jordy Chandler in any way?
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{\an8}[Ron] This was the first allegation
of abuse against Michael Jackson.
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{\an8}The Chandler case
took place about ten years
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prior to the case involving Gavin.
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I wanted the jury to understand
that this guy's done this before.
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[man] Michael!
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[Ron] I wanted to bring in
that evidence to show
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that he has a propensity
to commit sex crimes.
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- It could change the outcome of this case.
- [crowd yelling indistinctly]
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[woman on TV] …the Jackson jury
to hear past trial sex claims.
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This is a critical ruling.
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- Where there's smoke, there's fire.
- [crowd yelling]
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[Ron] It's very compelling evidence.
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{\an8}And every time I have done that
on a child molest case, I've won.
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[crowd yelling]
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- [crowd chanting] Michael, innocent!
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Ron] Neverland.
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This fantasy island that he created…
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was a huge piece of property
with multitudes of staff.
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I believe some of the cleaning staff,
the senior staff, the secretaries,
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the security people,
knew what was going on.
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I am convinced
some of them were complicit.
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How could they not have known?
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They knew when to stay away
and where to stay away.
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They understood that,
you know, as long as you work here,
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don't dare ever think about even
mentioning what goes on here to anybody.
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There will be hell to pay if you do.
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[music turns ominous]
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We wanted the jury to know what they saw.
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{\an8}[woman on TV] The Michael Jackson trial
is back in session today.
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{\an8}The jurors continue to hear testimony
about past molestation allegations
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against the self-proclaimed King of Pop.
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- [crowd yelling indistinctly]
- [man] Michael!
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[Diane] Former employees were going
to come and testify that for years,
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{\an8}Michael Jackson
lured young boys to Neverland
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and sexually molested them.
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It could be a real game changer.
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[man 1 on TV] Each day,
we're going to hear disturbing details
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of what people claim that they saw.
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Michael Jackson knew what they had seen.
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I had interviewed former employees of his.
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They'd all talked about misbehavior
between Michael and young boys.
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None of them came forward
until we got them to.
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Get into court,
you have to answer questions.
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[Diane] I'll just read out of my notebook.
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Ralph Chacon.
He was a security guard at Neverland.
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One night on his patrol
by the shower area, by the swimming pool…
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[water splashing]
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…there was Michael
and Jordy Chandler, both naked.
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"I saw that Mr. Jackson was caressing
the boy's hair and caressing his face."
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"And Michael Jackson
performing oral sex on the boy."
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Blanca Francia, a former maid,
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talks about finding Wade Robson
in the shower with Michael Jackson.
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[man 2 on TV]
Testimony just keeps on coming.
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Another ex-employee took the stand.
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[Diane] A former chef from Neverland
named Phillip LeMarque.
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He testifies that Michael Jackson
was playing the Thriller video game
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with the movie star Macaulay Culkin.
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And Michael Jackson's left hand
was inside the pants of the kid.
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[video game trilling]
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Question, why didn't you go to the police?
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Quote, "No one would have believed me."
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[Ron] There wasn't a one of them
who was able to say
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that Michael Jackson, to their knowledge,
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ever had an adult guest
in his room overnight.
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Not even a wife. And he was married twice.
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It was only adolescent boys
who stayed in his room.
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Many members of the press started to say,
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"This is a bigger subject than we thought,
than just the Arvizo family."
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According to witnesses,
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there was the Home Alone kid,
Macaulay Culkin,
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Wade Robson, Brett Barnes,
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and Jordan Chandler.
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[Kevin] It was like this pattern
of prepubescent boys.
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{\an8}Almost like a conveyor belt.
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{\an8}They come in young,
get old, they get off the other side.
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Jim, bring me up to date, friend.
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Five other children who Jackson allegedly
groomed and inappropriately touched
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{\an8}could very well turn this jury
against Michael Jackson.
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It did make me kind of stop and think,
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"Wow, what if they're, like, the same
thing that's been going on with Gavin,
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you know, the same MO?"
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[Nancy] Five boys,
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but only one of them
is going to testify, correct?
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Four of the boys,
Jordy Chandler, Brett Barnes,
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and Wade Robson, and Macaulay Culkin,
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none of them would talk to us.
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We were down to one.
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Blanca Francia was one of the maids.
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She had a son,
adolescent son, named Jason,
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now an adult, who was cooperative.
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And he did testify for us.
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You know, when he first walked in,
I noticed Michael Jackson look at him
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and then snap his head around,
and he just looked forward.
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Jason Francia, youth pastor,
then about 8, 9, 10 years old.
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Three times, he said
he was abused by Michael Jackson.
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"Question, 'Did his hands
make contact with your genitalia?'"
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"'Yes, over the clothes.'"
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"'How long was his hand there?'"
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"'Two cartoons' worth.'"
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Well, it was very moving.
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I had interviewed his mother
about these incidents back in 1993,
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and here, years later,
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her son is telling me
exactly the same thing. [voice breaks]
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It really got to me.
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His testimony really got to me.
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[man on TV] There's witness after witness
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that say Jackson has a pattern
and practice of molesting children.
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And the jury's going to look to that,
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and they're going to have a difficult time
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saying that Jackson
is not a pedophile in this case.
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The prosecution, they said, "We got him."
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We have a serial pedophile.
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{\an8}Well, what a bunch of junk that was.
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The people who testified,
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Francia, Chacon, McManus, LaMarque,
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former employees who were angry.
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They had an ax to grind.
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- And we were going to prove it.
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Jackson's lead attorney, Tom Mesereau,
counterattacked ferociously.
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[Trent] The defense skillfully
took each one of these witnesses
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{\an8}and put them in one box,
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{\an8}and it was a box of grifters.
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Some of these people were paid money
by the media for their stories.
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[Nancy] The housekeeper reportedly
sold her story to Hard Copy for $20,000.
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[Diane] He had something
on every single one of them.
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You got $20,000?
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The fact of the matter is,
back in the '90s,
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tabloid television paid people.
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I mean, everybody knows that.
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Now they're having
their reputation battered in court.
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He was masterful.
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I mean, he used facts and a tone of voice
that made the jury think,
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"Oh boy, these people can't be believed."
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{\an8}Yeah, you know,
in my opinion, money hungry.
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People wanted Michael Jackson's money,
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no matter how to get it.
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[Thomas] I think
we cross-examined effectively.
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They put on witnesses
who were lacking in credibility.
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[man 1 on TV] Every one
of these prosecution witnesses
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has their own little ax to grind
to some degree.
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[woman on TV] This is just Mesereau
throwing more dirt.
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We've had ten people testify,
and he says they're all crooks and liars.
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You have to buy that all these ten people
are willing to risk perjury, defamation…
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[man 1] They made
a pretty strong case here.
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[man 2] All about credibility,
not physical evidence.
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All of this is hanging in the air
for the jury to consider.
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{\an8}[woman] I think the prosecution needs to
pull something really big out of the bag.
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[crowd chanting] Michael, innocent!
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[Diane] As terrible as it looked
at that point for the prosecution,
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what they did next,
I thought, was brilliant.
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What better person to bring to the stand
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than the mother of Jordy Chandler,
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the little boy who got millions
and millions of dollars to shut up?
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{\an8}- And so June Chandler came to the stand.
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[Brian] When we discovered that
June Chandler was going to take the stand,
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there was pandemonium, okay? [laughs]
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It came back to haunt us.
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[Diane] To understand
how significant it was
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for the mother of Jordy Chandler
to take the stand,
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you have to go back ten years earlier,
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with this notebook right here,
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book number one
of my notes on Michael Jackson.
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This is the original story
that we broke back in 1993.
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[ominous music playing]
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[man 1 on TV] America is in shock tonight
over the scandal
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surrounding pop star Michael Jackson.
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Barry, I don't want to overstate anything.
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{\an8}I try to be a careful reporter.
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{\an8}But we could very well be watching
the downfall of a superstar.
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[man 2] Sources in Los Angeles say
a 13-year-old boy's claim of sexual abuse
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led to the criminal probe
of Michael Jackson.
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{\an8}[man 3] It's the LAPD's
Sexually Exploited Child Unit
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{\an8}of their Juvenile Division
that is handling this case.
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[Rosibel] When we first
interviewed the victim,
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it was at his father's home.
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His parents were divorced.
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The allegations were he had a sexual
relationship with Michael Jackson.
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The victim became very detailed.
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One of the allegations
was that they would shower together.
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He drew specific details
of Mr. Jackson's body.
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He drew a picture of Mr. Jackson's
private part, and specifically his penis,
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stating that Mr. Jackson
had markings on his, uh, penis.
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Because of the details
that he was giving to me
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and to the other officers in the room,
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there was absolutely no way
that he could make this up.
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[man 1 on TV] The Jacksons' lawyers
had to guarantee
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that Michael would submit
to a police strip search
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so cops could see
if various parts of Jackson's body
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matched up with the descriptions.
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[Rosibel] The body warrant was served
to photograph Michael Jackson.
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[camera clicking]
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Mr. Jackson was hysterical at the time,
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yelling, screaming,
yelling at his attorneys,
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"How are you allowing this to happen?"
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{\an8}They served a search warrant on me
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{\an8}which allowed them to view
and photograph my body,
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{\an8}including my penis,
my buttocks, my lower torso,
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{\an8}thighs, and any other area
that they wanted.
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{\an8}[woman on TV] This is the first time
the world has seen Michael Jackson
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{\an8}deny the allegations of sexual abuse.
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In a message carried on live television
from his Santa Barbara ranch,
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he emotionally described undergoing
a recent body search by investigators.
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{\an8}It was the most
humiliating ordeal of my life.
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[Rosibel] From what I understand,
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some detectives were able
to corroborate the sketch,
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actually match the photographs
and the markings
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that Michael Jackson had on his body.
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{\an8}We knew that we had a good case,
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but the victim did not want
to pursue the criminal case.
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[music turns dramatic]
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The young boy who was the catalyst,
uh, for this investigation
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has recently informed us
that he does not wish to participate,
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that we must decline
prosecution involving Mr. Jackson.
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[Rosibel] I was in disbelief.
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We don't have a victim.
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We don't have anybody else
who's willing to come forward.
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We don't have a case.
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[man 2 on TV] The settlement is in,
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and Jackson's young accuser
is now California's newest millionaire.
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Michael Jackson understood
what this kid was capable of doing to him,
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and $23 million was to keep
Michael Jackson out of prison.
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{\an8}I did say to him, you know,
"But that's got to be the end, Mike."
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"You can never be seen
around kids again, ever."
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[music fades]
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- [crowd chanting] Michael, innocent!
- [yelling indistinctly]
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- Michael, innocent!
- [somber music playing]
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[man on TV] The mother
of the 1993 alleged victim
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is the 51st witness
to testify for the prosecution.
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June Chandler,
this highly credible witness.
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This is the first time
the jury's going to hear
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the truth about
what happened with her son.
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Everything short of the actual
description of molestation,
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everything else could come from her.
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June Chandler's testimony was riveting.
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[ominous music playing]
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- [games chiming]
- [indistinct chatter]
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[Diane] She said she and her son
and small daughter
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traveled the world with Michael Jackson.
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[cameras clicking]
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It was a whirlwind existence.
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[ominous music continues]
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June Chandler testified
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it was the end of March 1993
that they went to Vegas.
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Jackson came to her crying.
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"You don't trust me. We're a family.
Why won't you let Jordan be with me?"
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And she said, "He is with you."
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"But why not in my bedroom?"
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And Michael was trembling and saying,
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"We're a family.
Jordy is having fun with me."
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"Why can't he sleep in my bed?
There's nothing wrong."
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"There's nothing going on.
Don't you trust me?"
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And in the end,
she did allow him to sleep with Jackson.
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And from that point on,
he always slept with Michael Jackson.
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MJ spent the night more than 30 times
in her Santa Monica house.
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Where did they stay?
"In my son's bedroom."
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Question, "Is there more
than one bed in that room?"
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"No."
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[ominous music continues]
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That just gives me chills.
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You couldn't get it
out of your mind that this woman
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got talked into letting her son
sleep with Michael Jackson.
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He was 12 years old.
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[man on TV] Jackson gave her
a very expensive Cartier bracelet.
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And from then on, every time
Jackson and Jordy were together,
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they shared a bed.
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You got the sense that she sold her son.
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[music turns unsettling]
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[Diane] And then she told the jury
that she hadn't seen her son in 11 years.
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You got the impression that June Chandler
realized she had done something wrong.
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She had allowed access to her son
that she now regretted.
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I know she was hurting.
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I could see that in her face
when she would talk about Jordy.
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[somber music playing]
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[Ron] They were not able to resume
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a kind of a normal
mother-son relationship after that.
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It would be speculation,
but I think Jordan blamed her
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for not protecting him
from this abusive relationship
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as a mother should have been.
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You get diamonds, I get abused.
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That's their understanding.
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{\an8}It was heartbreaking
and infuriating at the same time.
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I just remember sitting in the room
watching her on the stand.
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I just thought, "This woman perhaps
gave a death blow to Michael."
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I'm thinking the jury
is going to send him to prison.
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It did make me
kind of stop and think, "Wow."
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Knowing that Michael Jackson
paid off this family
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makes you wonder, is he guilty?
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[man 1] Michael. Michael, do you think
June Chandler told the truth?
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There'll be no comment.
There'll be no comment.
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[man 2 on TV] The pattern she showed
was so close to the current case,
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the jury could really believe
Jackson had a way
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of going about seducing these kids.
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[man 3] The prosecution is wrapping up
the molestation part of its case,
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moving on to conspiracy,
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alleging the Arvizo family
was held against their will.
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{\an8}[tense music playing]
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{\an8}Janet Arvizo, the mother of the accuser,
is on the stand.
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[crowd chanting] Innocent!
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- Innocent!
- Michael!
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[woman on TV] Michael Jackson
face-to-face with the mother
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of the teenage boy
he's accused of molesting.
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For the prosecutors, Janet Arvizo,
the mother of the accuser, Gavin Arvizo,
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{\an8}could not be a more important,
pivotal witness.
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[tense music continues]
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She was going to testify
that she had been kidnapped,
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the family had been
held against their will,
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and then Michael Jackson
had molested her son.
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- [indistinct chatter]
- [tense music continues]
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[Ron] Janet was a very complicated woman.
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Three kids when she was very young,
lived in a state of poverty.
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They had a one-room studio apartment.
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Married to a man
who was violent and abusive.
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And that had an effect
on how she viewed the world.
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Insecure and conflicted
and emotionally traumatized.
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And that's how she presented.
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[woman on TV] Emotional testimony
revolved around the charge
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that Jackson falsely imprisoned her
and her three children.
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[Diane] On the stand, Janet talked about
being surrounded by the Jackson team
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after the Martin Bashir documentary.
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They said, "We've got
to hide you at Neverland,
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so the media can't get you."
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So she did anything they told her.
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- [music turns ominous]
- [VCR clicks, whirs]
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[Ron] We discovered
fairly early in the case,
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the video that depicted
the entire Arvizo family
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proclaiming their praise
for Michael Jackson
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and how much he's done for their family.
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He plays with them, laughs with them.
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He, uh…
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lets them win. [laughs]
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[Ron] At the time
that that video was made,
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Janet had no awareness at all that there
was anything going on that was unseemly,
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anything that was wrong,
anything that was criminal.
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She still believed that
Michael Jackson was the family savior.
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Every door closed on us,
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and Michael said, "All my doors are open."
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"My home is your home."
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"And your children,
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I am like their father."
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And me, he calls me "family."
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Ron] Michael Jackson telling her
that they are now family,
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{\an8}that he has a special relationship
not just with her son,
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{\an8}but with her as well,
and that he could be counted upon,
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those were the types of things
that June Chandler testified to as well.
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What every prosecutor
who deals with sex crimes learns quickly,
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a pattern of behavior
is repeated over a period of time.
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{\an8}And we believe there is a grooming process
that extends beyond the child,
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that includes the family of the child.
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{\an8}Pretty consistently with all of these kids
that Michael Jackson was involved with,
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there was no father figure.
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That was the case with Jordan.
I mean, there was a divorce.
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It was the case with Gavin.
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Michael Jackson telling them,
"I am the father now."
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"I will take care of you,
and I will love you,
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and you will be cared for
and you will be attended to."
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"You have to believe
I have only your best interests at heart."
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"Now let's go to bed."
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[unsettling music continues]
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From the very beginning,
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things did not make sense
about this family.
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[dramatic music playing]
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Michael Jackson, he couldn't understand,
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why are they doing this to me?
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Everybody has a past.
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So when it came to Arvizos,
who are these people?
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Michael told me, "That's your job, Brian."
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"Your job is to find out
what really happened here."
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I need to find
every skeleton in their closet,
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dirt on their shoes.
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"You've got to sniff it out."
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Do the search, court records.
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Bingo.
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There's a case
against JCPenney's by the Arvizos.
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[ominous music playing]
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Gavin Arvizo went in and stole clothing,
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and the security guard
saw him and caught him.
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Janet Arvizo sees what's happening,
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and a melee ensued.
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A fight.
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They did not get charged with shoplifting.
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Instead, Janet Arvizo
filed a lawsuit against JCPenney's,
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saying that the security guard supposedly
molested Janet Arvizo in the parking lot.
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[music fades]
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Wait a minute, they've done this before.
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This is the same MO.
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I found out there was $152,000
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paid to them in a settlement agreement.
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And I said, "They've got all this money.
What are they doing on welfare?"
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They were scam artists.
They knew how to do it.
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I found the smoking gun.
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But was it enough?
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[woman 1] Today at the Jackson trial,
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{\an8}Jackson's attorney begins
cross-examining his accuser's mother.
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Now the defense came into play.
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[woman 2] Michael, are you looking forward
to the cross-examination of this witness?
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[Trent] Tom Mesereau's cross-examination,
it was surgical.
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Never explosive, but devastating.
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He flipped the narrative.
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He made the Arvizos the aggressors,
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the predators,
and Michael Jackson the prey.
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The welfare fraud was so powerful,
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it resulted in her
claiming the Fifth Amendment.
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He allowed Janet Arvizo
to effectively hang herself.
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There was a palpable reaction
in the courtroom.
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{\an8}[Melissa] It did bother me.
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- To me, it was…
- [suspenseful music continues]
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It was just a farce, you know.
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She just… She just was out for money.
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Out for money.
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At every opportunity,
the defense absolutely excoriated her.
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The whole notion
that they're a family of grifters
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looking for a quick buck is nonsense.
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There was high drama in the courtroom
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of the Michael Jackson
child molestation trial.
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{\an8}She witnessed Jackson
licking her son's face,
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{\an8}and she actually
did a reenactment of that,
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{\an8}which must have been incredibly bizarre.
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{\an8}She shouted, quote,
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{\an8}"Neverland is all about booze,
pornography, and sex with boys."
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{\an8}She was rambling.
She was incoherent. She was emotional.
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[Diane] She was on the stand
several days in a row.
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[reporters clamoring]
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[Diane] Every day, she appeared
as a different person.
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Once very meek,
and then the next day very mad,
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and then the next day very sad.
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You just never knew
what you were gonna get with Janet Arvizo.
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All I know is sitting,
you know, six feet away from her,
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she was pointing at the jury.
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"Put yourself in my shoes.
Don't you judge me."
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Talking about being kidnapped
in a hot-air balloon.
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I called her Janet from Another Planet.
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Sorry, but, you know,
I mean, that's just how she acted.
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[tense, pensive music playing]
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[Ron] It's a normal reaction
for a mother who realizes
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that their child has been exposed to harm.
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And she was somebody who psychologically
didn't have the ability to deal with it.
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I'm not sure I would have
the ability to deal with it,
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and I had a fairly normal upbringing.
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Today, we went
from Neverland to fantasy land.
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[Trent] This witness was a disaster.
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She was the worst possible witness
you could have imagined for a prosecutor.
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It was an extraordinarily
pivotal moment in the case.
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She was, at the end of the day,
what the defense needed.
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And that was walking,
talking, reasonable doubt.
479
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,760
[crowd yelling indistinctly]
480
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,600
[Trent] I think it was a really
important moment for Michael Jackson.
481
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,040
The case was going very well for him.
482
00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,120
[tense, pensive music continues]
483
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,440
[woman] Michael, are you pleased with
the way the cross-examination is going?
484
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,080
- [Michael] It's going well.
- [crowd yelling]
485
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,680
[Kerry] Michael was real excited
and jubilant, as a matter of fact.
486
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,040
- It made it a good day.
- [music turns ominous]
487
00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,840
{\an8}I cherish those days, um, the good days,
488
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,440
because most of the times
were extremely stressful.
489
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,960
Throughout the trial, he was
deteriorating mentally and physically,
490
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,160
you know, because he was
just paralyzed with fear and anxiety.
491
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,240
At times, you would see him…
492
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,960
just in thought,
493
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,320
and I'd see tears come down,
494
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,160
you know, because it was destroying him.
495
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,560
[woman 1 on TV] A key prosecution witness
is expected to testify, Jackson's ex-wife.
496
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:07,840
[woman 2] The singer's ex-wife,
497
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,080
the mother of two of his children,
is set to take the witness stand.
498
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,600
Just knowing that Debbie Rowe
is on the prosecution's side,
499
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,880
that was problematic.
500
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,040
[tense music playing]
501
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,920
[Randy] Debbie, Michael Jackson's ex-wife,
now she's going to be a witness.
502
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,720
I'm thinking,
"Oh man, what's going to happen?"
503
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,200
[Diane] Debbie Rowe gives Michael Jackson
what he's always wanted, his own children.
504
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,560
Not one, but two.
505
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,280
And she agrees
not to be part of the children's life.
506
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:43,000
She gave up her parental rights
so that the children were all his.
507
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,440
But she changed her mind.
508
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,840
[man on TV] Rowe is locked in
a custody battle with Jackson
509
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:49,960
over their children
510
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,280
and is reportedly upset because the singer
has not paid alimony for more than a year.
511
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:55,920
[Diane] She told the prosecution
512
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,360
she hadn't seen her children
in two and a half years
513
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,320
because Jackson wouldn't let her,
and she called him a sociopath.
514
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,280
What a coup for the prosecution
to get Debbie Rowe.
515
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,800
[ominous music playing]
516
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,600
[Randy] The night before,
517
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,080
I was at a steak joint
where we always ate every single night.
518
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,520
And there's Debbie.
519
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,760
She's with the prosecution,
and they're huddling,
520
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,360
and they got their heads down,
and they're taking notes,
521
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,960
and she's being very animated,
and who the heck knew what she was saying?
522
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,320
But I knew it wasn't good.
523
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,480
{\an8}[ominous music continues]
524
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,200
{\an8}[woman on TV] Sparks could fly later today
525
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,720
{\an8}in the Michael Jackson child molestation
trial with the singer's ex-wife.
526
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,560
- [crowd screaming]
- [Ron] At this point, we had a battle.
527
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,520
We had to pull out all the stops.
528
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,720
Debbie Rowe, she had information
that was relevant, you know,
529
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,920
critical of him
and what he did with children.
530
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,360
Now, could we get her
to deliver that information
531
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,480
in a way that was effective
and was received well by a jury?
532
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,760
She didn't demonstrate
any hesitancy in doing so.
533
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,600
Could be potentially
devastating for this defense.
534
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,880
[man on TV] I think
she'll be given instant credibility
535
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,400
because of who she is
and what she may know.
536
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,440
[Brian] Debbie Rowe was going to appear
as a prosecution witness,
537
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,880
was a heart-stopping event.
538
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:26,880
Randy, Jermaine, La Toya, Mr. Jackson,
everyone in the defense,
539
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,680
talk about people's blood draining
from their face and their heart.
540
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,400
People were going to believe
she had the inside story.
541
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,480
[ominous music continues]
542
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,400
[Randy] There she is, Debbie Rowe, right?
543
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,360
And she looks at Michael.
544
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,880
He looks at her.
545
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,400
And there was a moment…
546
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,720
when I saw her flip.
547
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,640
Something happens in a courtroom
that it overcomes people,
548
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,320
and their emotions come out,
and her emotions came out.
549
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,560
"Michael, I think the world of you."
550
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,280
And she said so.
551
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,800
[tense, pensive music playing]
552
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,040
What she testified to and what she told us
were two very different things.
553
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:19,440
Yeah, if I was expecting her
to say something along the line of, um,
554
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,960
"I was very concerned about his behavior
and his association with children,"
555
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,400
she certainly didn't say that
on the witness stand.
556
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,080
[speaks indistinctly]
557
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,600
There's a limit to what you can do
to neutralize something like that.
558
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,600
You just have to live with it.
559
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,200
[Diane] It was pretty devastating.
560
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,320
The prosecution cut her testimony short.
561
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,560
They realized she's flipped.
562
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,760
She's not going to tell us
what she told us behind closed doors.
563
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,880
- Michael was numb the whole time.
- [ominous music playing]
564
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,880
He kind of just looked at me,
"Okay, that's my Debbie."
565
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,120
"I love her too," you know?
566
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,800
[woman on TV] Debbie Rowe was touted
as the prosecution's bombshell witness,
567
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,680
but she appears to have
exploded in their faces.
568
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,800
As she left the stand, Debbie Rowe
took this long, beseeching look,
569
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280
like, "Look at me, would you, please?"
570
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,400
He, as I recall, just kept his head down.
571
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,880
The moment she got in the courtroom,
572
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,600
took the witness stand,
took one look at Jackson,
573
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,160
she melted like an ice cube.
574
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,720
[tense, pensive music playing]
575
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,520
[Diane] Did she still love him?
Is that why she did it?
576
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,800
One theory, if she would testify
favorably for Michael Jackson,
577
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,200
there was this backdoor agreement
that he would let her see her children.
578
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,640
I don't think anybody really knows
except Debbie Rowe.
579
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,760
[woman] Michael, was it good
to see Debbie again?
580
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,280
[man 1] Michael, what was it like
to see Debbie Rowe?
581
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,160
- No comment, sir.
- [woman] No comment at all?
582
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,280
[man 2 on TV] The one person who has
a right to hate Michael Jackson, doesn't.
583
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,240
What does that say about Michael Jackson?
584
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,040
How could they
put this witness on the stand?
585
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,080
How could they not know
what she was going to testify to?
586
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,120
[man 3] It's bad. It's especially bad
because it's so late in the case.
587
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,080
You know, the defense is about to begin.
588
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,080
You want to start strong and end strong.
589
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,760
Well, this is both
the end of the prosecution case
590
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,800
and the end of the prosecution case.
591
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,880
[ominous music playing]
592
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,160
[man on TV] Forty-five days
and 85 witnesses later,
593
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,040
the prosecution
in the Michael Jackson case rested.
594
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,960
[suspenseful music playing]
595
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,200
[Brian] The prosecution
made so many mistakes,
596
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,920
Martin Bashir being one of them.
597
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,800
Debbie Rowe, oh my goodness.
598
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,360
But we, we were still in trouble.
599
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,880
Public opinion, very important.
600
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,360
Seventy percent said he was guilty.
601
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,120
Oh man, we were getting killed.
602
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,680
Since when do that number of Americans
agree on anything?
603
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760
Could we move that needle
604
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,880
back where it belonged
on the defense side?
605
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,440
I can't wait till it's over.
If I see him in his pajamas again,
606
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,880
I don't know if I'll get through.
607
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,360
Defense is close to presenting its side.
608
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,560
Let's meet our panel and go to your calls.
609
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,160
- [woman] Hi, Larry.
- [Larry] Go ahead.
610
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,360
[woman] Do you think they should
let Michael get on the stand?
611
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,000
If I were defending him, absolutely not.
612
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,880
{\an8}[tense music playing]
613
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,440
{\an8}[crowd screaming]
614
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,040
[yelling]
615
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,080
[Nancy] After ten weeks of taking
pot shots at the state's case,
616
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,440
the defense kicks off.
617
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,000
[Diane] Now it's the defense's turn.
618
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:22,520
The defense had this big master plan
to polish up Michael Jackson's reputation.
619
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,640
So who do they call?
620
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,240
Wade Robson.
621
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,120
They call Brett Barnes,
622
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,160
who the prosecution said
that Michael Jackson groomed
623
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,720
and sexually molested.
624
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,760
But guess what?
625
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,400
They also called
the movie star Macaulay Culkin.
626
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,680
The Home Alone kid always said
glowing things about Michael Jackson.
627
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,760
What happened at the house?
That's what people are concerned about.
628
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440
That's what's so weird. Nothing happened.
629
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,480
You know, I mean, nothing, really.
We played video games, you know?
630
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,040
[Brian] Macaulay Culkin. He's a neat guy.
631
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,600
I called him up, and I said,
632
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,240
"Mac, they're making all these
accusations against Michael about you."
633
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,760
And Macaulay Culkin says,
634
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,320
"From what I'm seeing
going on in this courtroom,
635
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,000
Michael is in deep, deep trouble."
636
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,280
"I'll be there for him, Brian.
I'll come in. I'll testify."
637
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,960
"I've told them a thousand times.
I'll tell them again."
638
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,640
[tense music playing]
639
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,800
[Diane] The jury looked like
they were a little starstruck.
640
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,120
There was the Home Alone kid right there,
you know, feet away from them,
641
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,600
swearing to tell the truth
and nothing but the truth.
642
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,720
He asked this jury to believe him.
643
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,280
{\an8}"If you trust me,
644
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,360
{\an8}Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin,
645
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,080
{\an8}you should trust Michael Jackson."
646
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,800
Michael Jackson stared at him,
um, for a moment.
647
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,000
He smiled.
648
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:42,040
And it was a moment between two megastars,
649
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,600
um, when the world could have stopped
650
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,680
and the two of them just
sort of shared a moment with each other.
651
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,480
He categorically denied
that Michael Jackson ever molested
652
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720
or ever inappropriately touched him.
653
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,360
[woman on TV] Culkin called
the allegations absolutely ridiculous.
654
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,680
[man] The second defense witness,
Brett Barnes, said the same thing.
655
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,880
Choreographer Wade Robson told jurors
he first met Jackson at age five
656
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,120
and shared a bed with him
more than 20 times until he was 14.
657
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,840
[Brian] Wade says,
"No, Michael never touched me."
658
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,960
"He never did anything
659
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,760
that was even remotely
associated with these accusations."
660
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,160
[tense music continues]
661
00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:22,640
[Melissa] Wade was very convincing,
662
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:27,240
made me feel like
he was telling me the truth.
663
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,920
It's really hard
to kind of lie to somebody.
664
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,360
When you look directly at him,
you kind of would look away
665
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,520
or look, you know, distracted.
666
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,640
But he didn't do any of that.
667
00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:42,200
It was a trio of home runs
for Tom Mesereau.
668
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:50,760
All three of those young men said
their time at Neverland was magical, safe.
669
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,240
Did you always sleep
with Michael Jackson when you were there?
670
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,240
"Yes." "And nothing bad ever happened?"
671
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,800
"No, nothing bad ever happened."
672
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,040
I was hearkened back to 1993
673
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,280
when Wade Robson as a 9-year-old
and Brett Barnes as a 9- or 10-year-old
674
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,520
were brought out by Team Jackson.
675
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,960
{\an8}[man] Have you slept
in the same bed with him?
676
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,760
{\an8}Yeah, but I was on one side,
he was on the other.
677
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,640
{\an8}It's this big bed.
678
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,000
{\an8}Yeah, there's been different times
where it'd just be me and Michael.
679
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,280
{\an8}Then there'd be other times
where he has other friends over too.
680
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,160
It's just a slumber party.
We just have a lot of fun.
681
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,320
[Diane] And there they were years later,
682
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
testifying as grown men
to the very same thing.
683
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,480
Yes, they slept in bed
with Michael Jackson,
684
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,400
but "nothing ever happened."
685
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,680
It was a mantra.
686
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,000
Nothing happened.
687
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,240
Nothing happened.
Absolutely nothing happened.
688
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,480
How much stronger
can you get for the defense?
689
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,760
And you have to wonder why the prosecution
690
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,400
brought these
three cases up to begin with.
691
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,160
What we had to overcome
was something that was almost devastating.
692
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:58,600
We had presented to the jury our belief
that Wade Robson was a victim.
693
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,360
We had a witness who saw that
he was being abused by Michael Jackson.
694
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,840
He insisted he was not.
695
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,040
That's very difficult evidence
to overcome, right?
696
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,160
Now, it's my task to cross-examine him.
697
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:12,760
[Sheree] I was inside the courtroom.
698
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,000
At one point,
the prosecution was so frustrated
699
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,120
on how well he was doing for the defense,
700
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,000
he leaned on the podium,
like out of frustration,
701
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,800
like, "We can't break you."
702
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,720
And he said, "You know,
703
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,760
maybe he did these things to you
and you were asleep."
704
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,520
The audience just gasped
because it was like,
705
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,960
you're that desperate?
706
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,200
It was hard to get past that.
707
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:42,400
You know, it's hard to convince a jury
when the subject of the act itself
708
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,600
says it didn't happen.
709
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:44,880
[tense music playing]
710
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,400
I had decided that the most effective way
to be able to deal with that
711
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,800
was to simply do a presentation
of some of the materials,
712
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,880
sexually graphic material that we had
seized from Michael Jackson's home.
713
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,000
[Diane] Two books
introduced by the prosecution.
714
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,920
One of them is Boys Will Be Boys!
715
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,840
And one, I'm going
to cover up the cover photo,
716
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,800
called simply The Boy,
a Photographic Essay.
717
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:15,200
In these books, you will see
naked boys sprawled on rocks,
718
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,320
naked boys eating bananas,
naked boys touching each other.
719
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,240
And suddenly, you saw Wade Robson,
720
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,280
who sat stock-still in the witness chair,
721
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,680
slump down.
722
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,400
His whole demeanor changed.
723
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,560
And you could see
these books affected him.
724
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,440
And I had to wonder,
725
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,160
had Michael Jackson shown him these books?
726
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,800
[man on TV] Ron Zonen, the prosecutor,
did an absolutely magnificent job
727
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,600
of taking this witness
and turning him to his own witness.
728
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:52,800
[Ron] My goal was to make this jury
as uneasy as possible.
729
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,880
I want the jury to sit there and think,
730
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,160
"I sure wouldn't want
my child in bed with a man
731
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,920
who found this kind of material
to be fascinating or enticing."
732
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
[tense music continues]
733
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,720
[man 1 on TV] I frankly felt like
I was hit by a two-by-four in the stomach.
734
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,160
It was only about two hours of testimony,
but it was tremendously powerful, Nancy.
735
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:17,120
[Diane] The prosecution
did score some points.
736
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,320
Was it enough?
Well, that was up to the jury.
737
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,200
[tense music continues]
738
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,640
[Trent] For the next two weeks,
739
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:29,240
Tom Mesereau took the jury through
every piece of evidence that was critical,
740
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,840
every witness that was important.
741
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,040
They took 50 witnesses
and put them on in over two weeks.
742
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,480
[Thomas] There were so many
ridiculous aspects to this trial
743
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,000
that I think our witnesses
blew them out even more.
744
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,640
[man 2 on TV]
Jackson lead attorney Tom Mesereau,
745
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,080
he simply said, "The defense rests."
746
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,160
[music crescendos, fades]
747
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,840
[man 3] Michael Jackson admits
to sleeping with children,
748
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,080
but is the 46-year-old pop star
a child molester?
749
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,680
It is now up to a jury in Santa Maria,
California, to answer that question.
750
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,080
After more than three months of testimony,
751
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,000
the jury in the Michael Jackson
child molestation trial
752
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,960
began deliberating the case on Friday.
753
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,520
[crowd chanting] Innocent!
Michael! Innocent!
754
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,360
- Michael's innocent!
- [suspenseful music playing]
755
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,520
{\an8}[Melissa] I was nervous.
756
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,960
The first thing we did was we took a poll.
757
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,360
It was almost kind of equal
758
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,280
of people thinking he was guilty
and people thinking he was innocent.
759
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:29,080
What has to be proven
is beyond a reasonable doubt.
760
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,480
Can you doubt that happened?
761
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,800
{\an8}[suspenseful music continues]
762
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,680
{\an8}[man 1 on TV] They've been
in the deliberation now for three days.
763
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,280
The longer it goes on, it could mean
764
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,640
that they're basically
locked on some issues.
765
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,760
[Melissa] Emotions were high.
766
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,840
There was yelling
and crying and screaming.
767
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,040
The people outside could hear us.
768
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,480
All over the world,
everybody was watching.
769
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,400
The media was all up in it.
770
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,240
That's a lot of pressure.
771
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,760
{\an8}[man 2 on TV] Something that
is resonating through
772
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,040
{\an8}the African-American community right now,
773
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,840
they do not believe that
Michael Jackson is being treated fairly.
774
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,920
Michael Jackson,
in front of a jury of mostly white,
775
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,040
conservative Santa Marians,
776
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,960
was probably going to be found guilty.
777
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,560
Go back to the mug shot.
778
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,760
- Go back to dancing on the roof of an SUV.
- [crowd screaming]
779
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440
[man 3 on TV] There are ten counts
against Michael Jackson.
780
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,480
Go back to all of the charges.
781
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,760
[man 4] I think for the prosecutors,
782
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,080
the key is looking at the big picture,
saying, "There's a pattern here."
783
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,200
"This is not just about this boy."
784
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,760
This is the MO.
785
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,800
Facing the kind of charges that
he was facing, the odds were against him.
786
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,480
{\an8}[suspenseful music continues]
787
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,760
{\an8}[Diane] The jurors, I mean,
788
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360
{\an8}they're right in that room,
right back there.
789
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,560
They have to reach a verdict,
790
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,560
and I don't think
it's gonna happen any time soon.
791
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,360
This is a pretty complicated case.
792
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,280
Day after day after day,
more and more of the fans would gather.
793
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,160
[man] Diane is on fire!
794
00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:01,360
We don't need the water!
Let the bitch, bitch burn!
795
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,040
It got really tense in that parking lot.
796
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,760
[woman 1] Stop child predators!
797
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,920
[woman 2] Her problem is he's Black.
798
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,680
What came out of his mouth
about sleeping with boys?
799
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,040
What came out of his mouth?
800
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,200
I don't know what kind of kids you raised.
801
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,800
That does not mean he did it.
802
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,800
You're going to hell, uh,
possibly with Michael Jackson.
803
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,280
[crowd chanting] Innocent!
Innocent! Innocent!
804
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,480
[Sheree] I won't use the word "anxious."
805
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,200
I will use the word "prayerful."
806
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,280
We have faith in the jury.
We're gonna let them handle it.
807
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,280
[crowd chanting] Michael's innocent!
808
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,320
Sooner or later,
somebody has to come out of that room
809
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,520
{\an8}with some kind of an announcement.
810
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,080
We had the bailiff tell the judge,
you know, "We're at a standstill."
811
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,800
"What are we supposed to do?"
812
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,760
The judge says,
"No, we ain't doing no mistrial."
813
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,600
"You're gonna sit there and work it out."
814
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,920
[man on TV] The heart of this case is,
815
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,280
do you believe the boys
making these accusations?
816
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,120
{\an8}And do you believe this mother that they
were all confined at the Neverland home?
817
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,600
{\an8}[suspenseful music playing]
818
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,160
{\an8}It's the biggest story of the century,
so we've got to cover this.
819
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,800
What we want to know is, where's Gavin?
820
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,760
We are basically on Gavin.
He doesn't know we're there.
821
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,000
It's long-lens work.
822
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,240
[camera clicking]
823
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,360
On the face of it, it's a picture of Gavin
and his brother, Star, buying some snacks.
824
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,000
It looked like it was movie night.
825
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,880
And as they're leaving the store,
826
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,880
you start seeing them look up
at the TV mounted on the ceiling.
827
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,000
[man 1] Breaking news.
828
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,120
The jury in Santa Maria has sent word
that it has reached a verdict.
829
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,400
There's a verdict in the Jackson case.
This is how he saw it.
830
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,200
We were there at that moment.
831
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,840
It's not a happy picture. He looks scared.
832
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,520
They jump on their bikes,
and they pedal home as fast as they can.
833
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,480
[suspenseful music continues]
834
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,840
There is a verdict.
I am told there is a verdict.
835
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:55,200
All right, so it is now official
that at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time,
836
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,640
a verdict will be announced
in the Michael Jackson case.
837
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,520
Everybody was like, "Whoa."
838
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,560
My heart is beating real fast.
839
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,680
[man 2] A jury of 12 men and women.
840
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,400
If one of them expresses reasonable doubt
841
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,400
on any one of the charges,
he is acquitted.
842
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,840
The sheriff said,
"I just want to let you know
843
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,440
that when your friend is found guilty,
844
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,400
we're going to rush his ass
out of that courtroom so fast
845
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,440
your head's going to spin."
846
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,880
And I'm like…
847
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,720
"This guy knows something I don't know."
848
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,600
Like, Michael Jackson's
going to be found guilty.
849
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:36,080
[man 3] The jury verdict is to be read
when he arrives at the courthouse.
850
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:40,360
His motorcade, as you see
from this helicopter shot live.
851
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:45,320
[Kerry] Michael's life hinged on
what these jurors are going to say.
852
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,960
{\an8}And he's like just in shock.
853
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,320
I found a scripture
in the Bible, Isaiah 41,
854
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,560
and I gave this to his mother, Katherine.
855
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,520
And I told her to read this.
856
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,880
[somber music playing]
857
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,880
"So do not fear, for I am with you."
858
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,800
"Do not be dismayed, for I am your God."
859
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,080
"I will strengthen you and help you."
860
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,000
"I will uphold you
with my righteous right hand."
861
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,920
"All who rage against you
will surely be ashamed and disgraced."
862
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,040
"For I am the Lord, your God,
863
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,880
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you,
864
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,280
'Do not fear, I will help you.'"
865
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:24,840
Wow.
866
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,600
[sniffles, sobs softly]
867
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,160
One moment. Wow.
868
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,560
This is taking me back.
869
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,040
[inhales, exhales sharply]
870
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,840
This is taking me back
to that very moment.
871
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,720
[man 1 on TV] Michael Jackson is
a few moments away from hearing his fate.
872
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:53,120
[Nancy] It's been over 60 days
of evidence, of testimony,
873
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,400
{\an8}of late-to-the-court moments.
874
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,480
In the next, uh, 50 minutes or so.
875
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,560
Live outside.
876
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,000
The jury will release its judgment.
877
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,680
[man 2 yells] Michael!
878
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,000
[man 3] You see there Michael Jackson's
team arriving here at the courthouse.
879
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:12,360
So many fans, media, all just in a crush.
880
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,680
- [tense music playing]
- [crowd yelling]
881
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,400
[man 3] This could be the last time
882
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,840
that Michael Jackson
is a free man for a long time.
883
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,520
[Sheree] I just remember seeing his face.
884
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,280
I'm just like, "Wow," you know.
885
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,360
- [crowd yelling]
- [cameras clicking]
886
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,840
[Stacy] The slow walk, it was almost
like a death march, you know.
887
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,120
Blank look on his face.
888
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,480
No emotion whatsoever.
889
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,800
It's almost like
he's a zombie just existing.
890
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,080
[man 4] A live audio feed,
which the judge has agreed to.
891
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,920
And we will be hearing it
all at the same time.
892
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,720
[Nancy] The jury is making their way
into the jury room.
893
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,840
{\an8}Diane Dimond, row one.
894
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,600
Every muscle in my body was tense
895
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:02,840
because after all these months,
finally, it's going to be over?
896
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,720
Whether you supported him
or whether you were against him,
897
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,040
you could see everybody nervous.
898
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,800
[Nancy] All lawyers standing up.
899
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,080
Michael Jackson standing up,
waiting for the verdict to be read.
900
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,840
[music fades]
901
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,120
[man 5] We're all in listening mode here.
902
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,480
First word, first audio we hear
from inside that courthouse.
903
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:34,920
The microphone's on.
904
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,440
[woman over PA] The People
of the State of California, plaintiff,
905
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,320
versus Michael Joe Jackson, defendant.
906
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,960
Count one verdict.
907
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,560
We, the jury in the above entitled case
908
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,280
find the defendant
not guilty of conspiracy
909
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,840
as charged in count one of the indictment.
910
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,360
Count two verdict.
911
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,920
Not guilty of a lewd act
upon a minor child.
912
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,480
Count three verdict.
913
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,280
[man 6] Michael Jackson is now free.
914
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,160
- Yeah!
- [woman over PA] Count ten verdict.
915
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:04,880
Not guilty of providing
alcoholic beverages.
916
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:06,760
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
917
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,440
Not guilty on all counts.
918
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,800
Michael's vindicated, acquitted.
I told you so.
919
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,920
Michael Jackson was persecuted
for crimes he didn't commit.
920
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,720
It was proven in that court of law today.
921
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,680
[cheering]
922
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,520
[laughs] I mean,
they're roaring out there.
923
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,240
We could hear it inside the courtroom.
924
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:22,760
I lost it.
925
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,320
I couldn't stop crying
because it was just so emotional.
926
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,760
- [poignant music playing]
- [crowd yelling]
927
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,600
[Sheree] I remember tears.
928
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,560
I'm jubilant but can't
physically give any more.
929
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,240
I completely pass out.
930
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,840
I end up on the stretcher.
931
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,640
At the end of the day,
932
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:45,320
Michael was always innocent,
and he is loved.
933
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,960
- [crowd yelling]
- No evidence! Not guilty! No evidence!
934
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,200
[Diane] It was tough. Not guilty.
935
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,040
That doesn't say innocent.
936
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,680
It says not guilty
of the charges brought against him.
937
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:05,720
I did come away at the end thinking
that the State had kind of blown it.
938
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,160
I think the State
made the case so complicated
939
00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,560
by adding the conspiracy counts.
940
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,000
[crowd cheering]
941
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,680
The man's innocent. He always was.
942
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,680
[woman on TV]
Defense attorney Tom Mesereau said,
943
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,560
"If you have reasonable doubt
about this family accusing Jackson,
944
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,480
you must acquit," and they did.
945
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,800
[Ron] If there are ever two words
you never want to hear, it's "not guilty."
946
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,040
It's the worst moment you could have
as a professional prosecutor
947
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,400
to ever hear "not guilty."
948
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,320
But it is what happened.
949
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,760
And we're professionals.
And it's not guilty.
950
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,080
The jury has spoken.
That's it. We're done.
951
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,600
I'm looking at Michael Jackson.
He didn't look excited or happy.
952
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,800
He turned to Tom Mesereau like,
"What happened?"
953
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,800
And Tom Mesereau had to whisper
in his ear like, "Hey, you know, we won."
954
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,680
I turned around and looked,
and Michael Jackson looked right at me.
955
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,840
And he went, "Thank you,"
956
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,160
and bowed his head down to me.
957
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:06,200
I'm like, "Just doing my job."
958
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,800
- [dramatic music playing]
- [crowd screaming]
959
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,240
[Randy] I went over to Michael.
960
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,760
"Congratulations, Mike,
you know, you did it."
961
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,560
And he kind of looked right through me.
962
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:17,960
[woman on TV] What a trial
this was for him.
963
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,840
Moments of total humiliation,
964
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,960
total anguish,
embarrassment, physical pain.
965
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,560
This isn't exactly a day you want to just
throw your hat up and have a party.
966
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,240
[dramatic music continues]
967
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,800
[Kerry] We put him in the car.
968
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,720
And it was relatively quiet.
969
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,360
I saw him lean back like this
970
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,160
and exhale.
971
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:42,440
And I think it kind of set in that,
972
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,520
"Wow, I am done."
973
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,840
You know, "I am going home."
974
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,440
You know, "I'm a free man."
975
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,320
[crowd yelling]
976
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,520
[Randy] I had this idealized,
romanticized notion.
977
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,240
Now he's going to get his life back.
978
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,240
The one person who disabused me of that
notion was his manager, Frank DiLeo.
979
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,000
He turned to me and he said,
980
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,160
"You don't get it."
981
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:10,280
I said, "What?"
982
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,560
He said,
"This is life-ruining for Michael."
983
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,920
"He will never recover from this."
984
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,680
That just hit me hard, you know.
985
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,240
I mean, I was like,
"Oh my God, he's right."
986
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,160
Michael, he knew
that there were a lot of people
987
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,680
who felt that he was guilty,
988
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,840
no matter what the verdict was.
989
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,000
[unsettling music playing]
990
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,000
[Ron] The key core part of the case
is the testimony of the boy,
991
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,760
his younger brother, and the mother.
992
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,520
And clearly the jurors, all 12 of them,
rejected the testimony.
993
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,480
{\an8}The main thing that Gavin kept repeating
is that, "They didn't believe me."
994
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,680
{\an8}"Why didn't they believe me?"
995
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,200
Um, you know, he just-- That's how he is.
996
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,160
He felt like he had failed.
997
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:56,960
"Why didn't they believe me?"
998
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,320
[woman 1 on TV] Above-entitled case find
the defendant not guilty of conspiracy…
999
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,040
[Trent] People continued to question,
was he guilty?
1000
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,400
Was he not guilty?
1001
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:13,440
While this was a trial clearly about
Michael Jackson and molestation charges,
1002
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,000
the trial was also a trial
about America's,
1003
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,360
and maybe the world's,
most fragile obsession.
1004
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,480
Michael Jackson has set
the music world on its ear.
1005
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:23,920
[crowd screaming]
1006
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,280
[man on TV] The album is still number one
after 57 weeks in the charts.
1007
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:32,200
[Trent] Our obsession with fame,
celebrity, and status…
1008
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:33,440
[cameras clicking]
1009
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,360
…balanced against suspicion of our icon.
1010
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,480
[woman 2] He's a little weird.
1011
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,920
And all of those things
came colliding together in this trial.
1012
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,600
…most well-known, controversial people
in the world is in the fight of his life.
1013
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,640
Rumors fueled
by a tabloid frenzy and obsession.
1014
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:54,640
[Trent] Every time we watch a tabloid show
or every time we read a tabloid magazine,
1015
00:51:54,720 --> 00:52:00,440
that was the kerosene
placed onto the slowly burning embers
1016
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,200
of Michael Jackson.
1017
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,800
{\an8}- And we had to make a value judgment.
- [crowd chanting] Innocent!
1018
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,720
[Trent] What do we believe?
1019
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,480
And what don't we believe?
1020
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,840
And in the end,
it left us looking in the mirror.
1021
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,000
[gate creaks, shuts]
1022
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,560
And I'm not sure that we like what we saw.
1023
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,400
[animal calls]
1024
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,080
[unsettling music playing]
1025
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,760
[dramatic music playing]
1026
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,800
[music fades]