Post by ChrisR155 on Apr 22, 2004 9:49:34 GMT -5
SANTA BARBARA, California (CNN) -- A grand jury investigating allegations that pop star Michael Jackson molested a 12-year-old boy indicted him Wednesday. The charges in the indictment were not immediately known.
His attorneys said he would plead not guilty at his arraignment April 30 in Santa Barbara Superior Court. No trial date has been set.
Jackson, 45, pleaded not guilty in January to seven felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and two counts of giving the child an "intoxicating agent." (Full story)
His lawyers issued a statement saying they were confident Jackson would be "fully exonerated."
"We also remind the public that Michael Jackson, like any other person accused of a crime, is presumed to be innocent," said the statement from Mark Geragos, Robert Sanger, Benjamin Brafman and Steve Cochran.
"Michael is looking forward to his day in court and wishes to thank the millions of fans throughout the world who continue to support him during this difficult period."
The 19-member grand jury convened March 29 and met for 13 days to decide whether there was enough evidence to indict the singer.
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His attorneys said he would plead not guilty at his arraignment April 30 in Santa Barbara Superior Court. No trial date has been set.
Jackson, 45, pleaded not guilty in January to seven felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and two counts of giving the child an "intoxicating agent." (Full story)
His lawyers issued a statement saying they were confident Jackson would be "fully exonerated."
"We also remind the public that Michael Jackson, like any other person accused of a crime, is presumed to be innocent," said the statement from Mark Geragos, Robert Sanger, Benjamin Brafman and Steve Cochran.
"Michael is looking forward to his day in court and wishes to thank the millions of fans throughout the world who continue to support him during this difficult period."
The 19-member grand jury convened March 29 and met for 13 days to decide whether there was enough evidence to indict the singer.
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(Just my way of saying I think he's guilty , so dont take that wrong. I agree with spam, innocent until proven guilty, but I think its about time their catching up with him and doing something. They are starting to get imformation and indite others as well for the threatening he has been doing to the families, that I had mentioned before. Thats why many actions have been stopped, was the threats he was sending to families to scare them out of their "Memories" and the prosecution could not proceed without witnesses, Im glad this family has stood firm.
, but the fact is that they have been described by some children in previous cases, then their family 's always received Death threats, one child was almost run over by a car and the police reports show that it was an intentional act at the child and not a random thing. Their after, many parents and all starting dropping their suits, and losing their memories because the prosecution took so long to get the cases to court, the families and friends became frightened and backed away. These are files I have read from the case that have been made public, just to many other things to list, but to me, there is little to no doubt. BC- I agree, everyone should be treated equal, rich, poor famous or not, I said the same thing awhile back in another post, I though am not convinced on the Kobe Bryant thing, I honestly feel this young woman wanted to be with him, and maybe even had a plan once she knew it was him. To many things are not adding up with her, but I will say, if Kobe is guilty, and he indeed did Rape this young woman , then Yes, by all means he should be punished just like any other person.