Posted on 03/23/2005 4:08:31 PM PST by foolscap
Recovered data on star's hard drive can't be used
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The judge in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial on Wednesday denied a bid by prosecutors to show jurors evidence -- including teen porn -- seized from the entertainer’s computers at his Neverland Valley Ranch
Prosecutors said the four hard drives from the 14 computers police seized from a November 2003 raid on Jackson’s estate showed the pop star was a practiced Web surfer who looked at teen-themed porn sites as well as sites related to Walt Disney, toys and photographs of adoptable children.
Jackson’s accuser, now 15, has told jurors in the trial that the 46-year-old pop star showed him and his brother pornographic Web sites during their first visit to Neverland.
Santa Barbara County Deputy District Attorney Gordon Auchincloss called the computer evidence “powerful corroboration” of that testimony by Jackson’s accuser.
“This is important evidence that this defendant views teen erotic materials in his bedroom,” Auchincloss said
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I wonder what's on the judge's hard drive.
Probably because the charge isn't possession of child porn.
I just love judges lately....
That's it. We are now officially living in a judicial oligarchy. And since large numbers of judges are flaming liberal a**holes...
Sickening.
From the article
"Defense lawyers had argued that much of the material was not from February and March of 2003, the period during which Jackson is accused of sexually molesting the then-13-year-old boy and plying him with alcohol.
They also said the pornographic material in question was heterosexual, featuring girls or women, and that much of it had been automatically cached by the computers, meaning it was not clear that Jackson had retrieved it or seen it.
“The court will grant the defense motion not to allow,” the material, Melville said. “It does appear to be cached material. There’s no way of knowing if anyone looked at it or not.”
photographs of adoptable children
Scarey!
Actually, I was being generous. "Teen Porn" doesn't mean child porn.
Handicapped people being starved to death.
He wasn't all that "practiced" if they were able to recover such information from his hard drives.
In his defense NOTHING is illegal with teen porn. 99.9% of the teen based websites are women that are 18 and 19.. eightTEEN and nineTEEN. This what gives webmasters the right to say "Teen site". Also they take 20-30 year olds.. give them pigtails and a schoolgirl outfit and call them teens too.. If the boys/girls that were found on the computer were truely under the age of 18 they would allow it in. Can we also prove he was the one looking at the site?
It might be immoral but its not illegal.
It must have taken you some time to verify that:)
""Probably because the charge isn't possession of child porn.""
Yes but I would think if it was teenage porn or child porn it would be making an important point. If it was grown women porn, that would be a different matter.
without a question the stuff on the computer must not have been porn with minors or the feds wouldn't have been able to resist busting him on that. I am pretty fed up with the jackson thing. We all know the man is a wierdo, hopefully he will be convicted of anything he is guilty of.
At the end of the day, it's probably not good to have revealed too intimate a knowledge of the operation of teen porn sites.
Darn -- I bet the jury is disappointed. They are going to miss those great Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck x-rated cartoons...and BTW, kiddie-porn was used as evidence to convict that pervert murderer who killed the little girl in San Diego a couple of years back. Why does Whacko-Jacko skate on that deal ???
They have to have there ID's on file.. but then they can be faked too.. but it would not be at the fault of the webmaster.
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