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Jackson's lead attorney is a big name from Los Angeles, Thomas Mesereau. His sharp cross- examination at times irritated the judge but often landed. He got the accuser's sister to backtrack on key testimony, and turned another witness, former Jackson crisis-control expert Ann Marie Kite, into a voice for the defense...
...Mesereau has three other attorneys on his team, plus an intriguing new adviser--Gary Dunlap, a lawyer from nearby Lompoc who has reasons for going up against Sneddon. In 2003, Sneddon brought charges against Dunlap for witness intimidation. Sneddon lost, and Dunlap filed a $10 million wrongful-prosecution suit, still pending. If Mesereau was looking for a way to counter Sneddon's home-court advantage, he may have found it. --By Unmesh Kher and Matt Kettmann
...arraignment last week on grand jury charges in his child molestation case, Michael Jackson had a new, more subdued demeanor, as well as a new lead attorney by his side--Thomas Mesereau, who replaced Mark Geragos after Jackson complained that Geragos (also Scott Peterson's attorney) wasn't devoting enough attention to his case. In court, Jackson nodded as his not-guilty pleas were entered on all charges, including four counts of lewd acts involving a child, four counts of administering an intoxicating agent to a child and a conspiracy count involving allegations of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion...
...wild slug fest between Tom Mesereau of Eliot House and Hardy Wiedermann of Adams House brought the crowed of 100 spirited fans in the IAB to its feet, but the cheers turned to boos and heckels when referee Herbert Weissblum awarded the match to Mesereau...
Both boxers fought aggressively and landed good, strong punches, but the angry blasts leveled at Weissblum in dicated the crowd's belief that the bloody Mesereau, not Wiedermann, took the beating...