Michael Jackson jury reaches decision

**xdir** · 13th June 2005

Michael Jackson jury has reached decision, More soon

**gunner** · 13th June 2005

Verdict by 9.30

**Keva** · 13th June 2005

Finally i just bought a new noose and this is perfect for trying it out :whistle

**$wish** · 13th June 2005

Jurors reach verdict in Michael Jackson trial

SANTA MARIA, California (Reuters) - Jurors in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial reached a verdict on Monday, a court spokesman said.

Jackson was expected to report to the courthouse in Santa Maria, California from his Neverland Valley Ranch, about 20 minutes away, for the reading of the verdicts at 9:30 p.m. BST. Prosecutors and lawyers for the 46-year-old entertainer will also be on hand.

Jackson is charged in a 10-count Santa Barbara County grand jury indictment with molesting a teenage boy in February or March of 2003, plying the young cancer patient with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.

He faces nearly 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

The jury of eight women and four men reached the verdict on their seventh day of deliberations.

Television networks have been given permission to carry an audio feed as the verdict is read out. Cameras have been banned from the courtroom throughout the nearly five month of proceedings.

Prosecutors had argued that Jackson was a serial ped0phile who preyed on young boys over a decade at Neverland.

Jackson's lawyers countered that it was the pop star who was the naive victim of a family of con artists, led by a greedy mother who persuaded her son to make up the accusations against Jackson in anticipation of a potentially lucrative civil lawsuit against him.

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