Jackson’s Accuser and Brother Testify

Wednesday morning, attorney Thomas Mesereau addressed inconsistencies in the testimony of the brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser. The boy admitted discrepancies in the accounts he gave to the jury and the statements he made to sheriff’s investigators and the grand jury about the molestation he witnessed. The accuser’s brother told the jury that he had twice walked up a flight of stairs into Mr. Jackson’s bedroom and saw Jackson molesting his bother while his brother slept. But, in the statement he made to the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, he said that he witnessed the second incident while pretended to sleep on the bedroom coach and that his brother was passed out from drinking alcohol. When asked by Mesereau why he stated different accounts of the second incident, the brother interjected that there were actually three incidents, although that had never been alleged. To attempt to explain the discrepancies, the boy said “I was nervous when I was doing the interview.” The accuser’s brother presented further discrepancies when he stated to the jury that he would not have been be able to get into the Neverland wine cellar because he did not know where the key was but in his grand jury statement he said that he knew that the key was on a hook in the lounge area next to Jackson’s bedroom. Source: CNN/AP/MJJForum/eMJey