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Debate over the media’s treatment of high-profile trials came to the fore at Harvard Law School yesterday, as Michael Jackson’s defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau Jr. ’73, MSNBC anchor and correspondent Dan Abrams, and Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley all participated in a panel on race and the Jackson trial. Mesereau, who was named one of Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2005,” served previously as the defense attorney for actor Robert Blake and accepted the Jackson case after its first...
...Accuse Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau of getting his questions from Law and Order...
...THOMAS MESEREAU, defense attorney for Michael Jackson, surprising court watchers by closing his case just minutes after the prosecution showed jurors an hour-long videotape of the accuser's initial interview with police over the child-molestation allegations...
...said. A day or two later, "he did it one more time." He said that Jackson showed him and his younger brother pornography in magazines and on the Internet, and plied them with wine--"Jesus juice"--in Diet Coke cans. Under stern cross-examination by Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau Jr., who argues that the family's charges are a scam to elicit money from Jackson, the boy wavered in some particulars but did not break...
...outcome of the trial will turn largely on the skill of the two law teams. Mesereau has paraded his courtroom savvy in cross-examining the accuser's brother and sister, who were forced into contradictions. Sneddon took heat from observers for unloading his heavy artillery in the second week of what is expected to be a four-month siege, with hundreds of witnesses. The suspicion is that the D.A., who has been itching to nail Jackson since an aborted 1993 molestation trial, just couldn't wait to see the star squirm...