[RhinofromWA]

OK Micheal Jackson needs to get his crap straightened up. He is on trial and has been late before and was late today. This time he didn't even bother letting the courts know. :angry: Make him rot in jail! Let him sit on hard surfaces for a couple weeks and see how his back side feels then....or better yet make him get all close and cuddly with an hardened inmate and show Mr. Jackson how child molesting is supposed to be done.

Ok I have little respect for the man. Even if he is innocent, he is an idiot for evven being within 100ft of a child after his previous accusers outed him. I don't care how mesed up his back is, he has servants that can call. There is no excuse. Take his $3 mill and throw him in jail.

Rhino

PS- He failed to let the courts know he wasn't going to be there. He missed the 1 hr "get 'ur azz here" command of the judge. There wasn't any reporter that knew what exactly would happen to Mr Jackson. So as I type slowly there might have been a decision. I say lock him up.\

-Eeeehh heeeeee

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7148840/?GT1=6305

Dazed-looking Jackson
arrives late to court
Judge issues warrant
for singer's arrest after
he fails to appear for trial
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:18 p.m. ET March 10, 2005SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson arrived late to his child molestation trial Thursday to face a judge who threatened to arrest him and revoke his $3 million bail.

Jackson, who was said to have been treated at a hospital for a back problem, walked gingerly from his car to the courthouse, failing to beat a one-hour deadline the judge had set before activating an arrest warrant.

Jackson wore a jacket over pajama bottoms and slippers and appeared to be in pain. His movements were hesitant as he took little steps. He turned to acknowledge fans on his way in.

Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville had held onto the arrest warrant to give Jackson one hour to reach court from a hospital where his attorney told the court the singer was being treated for a serious back problem. There was no immediate word on what the judge’s next move might be.

The flurry of activity began a day that was already expected to be eventful, with Jackson’s accuser returning to the stand to testify about the key allegations against the singer.

The jury was not yet in the courtroom when Jackson failed to arrive at the 8:30 a.m. starting time.

Jackson’s lawyer, Thomas Mesereau Jr., said, “Mr. Jackson is at Cottage Hospital in Santa Ynez with a serious back problem. He does plan to come in.”

A dramatic hour
The judge, obviously angry, declared, “I’m issuing a warrant for his arrest. I’m forfeiting his bail. I will hold the order for one hour.” He made the statement between 8:35 a.m. and 8:37 a.m.

Jackson’s car pulled a little more than an hour later.


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Hospital spokeswoman Janet O’Neill said Jackson left Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital at 8:45 a.m. O’Neill had no comment on Jackson’s condition.

Jackson’s own spokeswoman, Raymone K. Bain said outside court that the singer’s back “gave out on him” after he woke up and he was rushed to an emergency room, arriving at 5:45. He notified his attorney, Bain and others around 5:15 a.m., she said.

“He knows the seriousness of this. He’s not play-acting,” Bain said.

Mesereau had been observed talking urgently on his cell phone for about a half-hour before the session was to begin.

When Jackson was arraigned in January 2004, the judge admonished him for arriving late and requesting a bathroom break. Last month, during the first week of jury selection, Jackson went to a hospital with flu symptoms, delaying the proceedings for a week. But he has been on time or early since then.

“Mr. Jackson really was sick. He really did have the flu,” the judge said last month. “I talked to his doctor. ... I wouldn’t let anyone take advantage of us that way.”

 

[RhinofromWA]

[blue]Here is a commentary on MSNBC. [/blue]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7148998/

Jackson in chains?
Time for the pop star to learn a lesson about the law

MSNBC
Updated: 1:35 p.m. ET March 10, 2005

'Bout darn time.

We already waited a week when Michael Jackson got what seemed to be the flu. Now MJ was M.I.A. once again, supposedly at a hospital in the nearby town of Santa Ynez, getting treated for what his attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. called a “serious back problem.”

Judge Rodney Melville bought none of it. He threatened to revoke Jackson's $3 million bail and toss the King of Pop in the hoosegow if he didn't appear in the hour.

Right on, judge.

Melville has an unenviable task. He has to keep this trial from becoming an uncontrollable three-ring act. He has a defendant who's made his livelihood by being a spectacle — on and off stage. A defendant who, in response to being arraigned, thought it'd be fun to dance atop an SUV. (He also showed up 20 minutes late for that, prompting a rebuke that perhaps Melville figured would set the singer straight. No such luck.)

What part of this doesn't Jackson get? Sure, no one wants to face their accuser — a boy who Jackson took under his wing and probably feels betrayed by. Sure, it's a stressful moment. But Jackson has known for months now that this moment would come.

A less wealthy defendant wouldn't have been able to pay even a fraction of the multimillion-dollar bail. They would be scrambling to change out of an orange prison jumpsuit into whatever court clothes could be scrounged up by a harried, overworked defense lawyer. They would not be passing the night at their louche 2,600-acre ranch before getting an escorted ride to court, complete with umbrella-wielding bodyguards. (A corrections van and armed officers would be more like it.)

A lawyer's burden
You had to feel a bit sorry for Mesereau as he stood in the glare of TV lenses Thursday morning, chatting nervously into his cell phone.

He's done an exceptional job this week of poking holes in district attorney Tom Sneddon's case — only to have all that progress unraveled by a defendant whose antics are, frankly, a nose-thumbing to his legal team, the court and the jury. Not exactly how I'd act toward the people who'll determine whether I go to jail or not.

As the final moments of the hour Melville provided for MJ to appear ticked away — as the on-air countdown clocks reminded us — we watched tensely as the black SUVs rolled up. Jackson stumbled out (in pajama bottoms, no less!) and hobbled into the courthouse, several minutes late.

It's not yet clear whether the judge will make good on his threat. But regardless of guilt or innocence, maybe MJ should face another stint behind bars while this trial unfolds — because he just doesn't seem to get it. If there ever was evidence to bolster the theory that Jackson is divorced from reality, living his life in his own little Neverland as a never-grown-up boy, we saw it today.

Even if you believe Jackson's claims that he was roughhoused during his last stint in jail after his 2003 arrest, neither his fame nor his clearly fragile mental state excuse him from the fact that he's a 46-year-old adult facing criminal charges.

After all, Martha Stewart, no shrinking violet herself in the ego department, knew to stick to a judge's clock, show up and behave herself. Even those aging New York wiseguys who wheeled along their oxygen tanks made their court dates.

A lesson to learn
So perhaps an object lesson in the realities of the criminal justice system would help the pop star understand that a courtroom isn't a balcony in Berlin, and all the adoring fans in the world don't mean that you supercede the legal process. This is People v. Jackson, not the “Dangerous” tour, and the judge who presides over your fate isn't an opening act.

“We don't want to jump to conclusions,” Jackson family friend and MSNBC analyst Stacy Brown told his on-air counterparts.

Oh, yes we do. Maybe Jackson has a bad back, maybe he needed medication, maybe he needed to go to the hospital. Melville has shown in the past that he's not uncaring to medical problems — he did have a chat with Jackson's doctor after the flu episode, no — and it would have been easy enough for Jackson's camp to make a single phone call.

But the look of surprise (and maybe a bit of disgust) on Mesereau's face is a good sign the veteran lawyer can't control his client.

Maybe a bit of time behind bars will help punctuate a lesson that Jackson seems thoroughly unable to absorb.

© 2005 MSNBC Interactive

 

[llkoolkeg]

Even if he DID get thrown in the pokey, you know he's not going into general population where he'd be tossing salad and playing the rusty trombone for all it's worth just to avoid a shower-shank redemption.

 

[RhinofromWA]

Even if he DID get thrown in the pokey, you know he's not going into general population where he'd be tossing salad and playing the rusty trombone for all it's worth just to avoid a shower-shank redemption.

I know....

But I could always hope......

Maybe a midnight caller. Jacko could have his crap packed-o

 

[Ciaran]

If any of us normal average citizens pulled that crap the judge would throw us in jail so fast you wouldn't even have time to notice that you have become Bubbas beeotch.

Lock his ass up. He may not go into the General pop., but ANY part of prison sucks big time. Maybe if they lock him up they will confiscate his nose along with his shoe laces.

 

[Ridemonkey]

I freakshow has completely lost his mind. Best to just put him out of our misery.

 

[mack]

Lock him and the mother of the children up.

 

[reflux]

$3 million bail? Damn! If threatening to revoke bail doesn't do the trick, threaten castration and I bet you he beats the judge to the courthouse next time.

 

[Ridemonkey]

threaten castration and I bet you he beats the judge to the courthouse next time.

Didn't freakshow already do this to himself?

 

[reflux]

Didn't freakshow already do this to himself?

what??? i'm going to have nightmares alone on the possibility that you're right. :mumble:

 

[JMAC]

Come on guys MJ isn;t that bad. He has some great music and can dance like no one can. The people who are sueing him are only doing it for money and MJ did nothing wrong IMO. :love:

 

[RhinofromWA]

Come on guys MJ isn;t that bad. He has some great music and can dance like no one can. The people who are sueing him are only doing it for money and MJ did nothing wrong IMO. :love:

He is a sicko

HE needs to stay out of kids (other than his own) lives and get a better grip on his life.

He is insane to be near kids after his previous accuser made some noise.

If I hear of him offer a kid "jesus juice" in a Coke can near me I will lay the molestor out. :angry:

Actually I am just as angry he gets away with the sh!t he does while his court proceedings are taking place. Lock the bastard up and hold him until he is found guilty OR INNOCENT because he has shown he has no respect for the court.

Jacko is a sicko and a clean as a $2 whore.

We're all "ignorant, just ignorant" (south park ref)

 

[JMAC]

He is a sicko

HE needs to stay out of kids (other than his own) lives and get a better grip on his life.

He is insane to be near kids after his previous accuser made some noise.

If I hear of him offer a kid "jesus juice" in a Coke can near me I will lay the molestor out. :angry:

Actually I am just as angry he gets away with the sh!t he does while his court proceedings are taking place. Lock the bastard up and hold him until he is found guilty OR INNOCENT because he has shown he has no respect for the court.

Jacko is a sicko and a clean as a $2 whore.

We're all "ignorant, just ignorant" (south park ref)

Well the fact he's playing with the court he should get fined or jailed for that. Other than that I think he's ok. Than again he really doesn't need so much money, they should make him buy a huge area of land and turn it into a national park.

 

[RhinofromWA]

Well the fact he's playing with the court he should get fined or jailed for that. Other than that I think he's ok. Than again he really doesn't need so much money, they should make him buy a huge area of land and turn it into a national park.

Rumor(and it is exaclty that) is he is BROKE

Spends 2-3x's what he makes in Royalties. That is sad, but nose jobs and skin bleaching is expensive. neaky:

If what has been brought agaisnt him is true than there is no reason to give kids wine, have them stay in his room at all,

Oh and previous security gaurd distroyed/hid evidence from police.... somethin tis fishy. They removed record of all kids comiong and going from "Nevernever land" so the cops could see who and how much kids went in and out of the house.

Billy Jean was apperantly not Jacko's lover.....her kid was.

 

[JMAC]

Rumor(and it is exaclty that) is he is BROKE

Spends 2-3x's what he makes in Royalties. That is sad, but nose jobs and skin bleaching is expensive. neaky:

If what has been brought agaisnt him is true than there is no reason to give kids wine, have them stay in his room at all,

Oh and previous security gaurd distroyed/hid evidence from police.... somethin tis fishy. They removed record of all kids comiong and going from "Nevernever land" so the cops could see who and how much kids went in and out of the house.

Billy Jean was apperantly not Jacko's lover.....her kid was.

WOW if he's broke he's freaking moron. I remember watching that show about and he goes and buys millions of $ of stupid stuff liek life size comic figures at once. That pisses me off, I hate people who are so materalistic. If I had money like that I would buy as much land as I could with my money and protect it. You're making me hate MJ now lol.