Thursday, April 21, 2005

Media Already Know That Michael Jackson Is Innocent!

By Seány of mjjforum.com

Okay guys, just got a telephone call from a guy who runs a local television show called 'On Second Thought' in Santa Maria called William Wagner. I met Wagner at a fan event held in the Radisson hotel on the evening of Sunday April the 3rd and then numerous times that week after the courts proceedings.

Anyway we exchanged numbers and I rang him on Monday to see how everything was going, although he was not there, I just left a voice message instead. Just a while ago I received a call back from him and he had some very interesting information...

He started off by telling me about yesterdays proceedings and how him and other members of the media reacted when the prosecution announced they where going to show some of the evidence that was found at Neverland.

Wagner was in the courts overflow room, this is a place where the media can go and view the trial, where they are allowed to chat to each other and discuss the case. He said all the reporters in the overflow room remained hushed and where waiting for some horrendous piece of evidence, as they had heard 'magazines' where about to be produced. The prosecution then displayed nudist magazines from the 1930's and a magazine with two naked men on the front cover cutting a huge piece of wood from a tree. That was it. That was the big 'crunch'. It was also the time when all of the reporters in the overflow room looked at each other and almost rolled about laughing in hysterics (wagners words)! He said right before the prosecution showed these magazines, some reporters thought 'Uh Oh', this is it, this is what's gonna nail Jackson', thinking the magazines may have been related to child pornography etc. Wagener went on to tell me that it was obvious that the prosecution where merely using the magazines in a way to 'shock' the jury, however they remained unfazed by it all. One of the magazines even had the words 'sunshine and health' written across the cover... 

Mesereau argued that the magazines where 'collector's items, can be found in the homes of people interested in Art and are legal to buy online and various outlets! He said that out of all of the hundreds of magazines and books found, this is all they (the prosecution) had to prove that MJ was interested sexually in children?? "Why did this ever go to trial", was a CNN reporter's comment to Wagner in the overflow room. My thought's exactly. 

He went on to tell me about what he witnessed happening to Janet Arvizzo after the proceedings on Friday and on Monday. He said that on the Friday after the court he seen police putting Janet into the back of a 'heavily secured armored vehicle', very similar to the ones banks use to transport money and the windows where so heavily blacked out, that he thought it was against the law! On the side on the vehicle it had 'Santa Maria Bomb Squad' written across it, which he found very strange. On the Monday after the proceedings he witnessed Janet Arvizzo being escorted into a White heavily secured vehicle, again with very darkened windows. He said that she has more security surrounding her than Michael Jackson does!

Another few interesting points he made was that (and this has not been released publicly yet) certain members of the media have filed lawsuits against Judge Rodney Melville because of his strict behavior with them in the courtroom! The motions that have been filed state the Melville 'intimidates' members of the media, who are only trying to do their job. At one point Vicki, the lady who does the courts sketching, was asked to leave the court because her mobile went off. Wagner stressed that this was completely unfair to her, as she is a free lance and does not get paid directly for her work. Wagner himself was also reprimanded by Melville for being seen talking to Randy at one point a few weeks ago.

He also stated that Melville is definitely on the prosecutions side and members of the media have already picked up on this. Wagner also said that he is doing his best to go out of his way to help the prosecution with as much as he can, in order for it to go in their favour. 

Something else that was very interesting was this...

He asked me what was the media coverage like here in Britain and in Ireland and I said it had became very 'minimal' over the last week or so and he said that he wasn't surprised, because after the first day of the Janet's testimony, members of the media had already decided that 'enough was enough' and had made their mind up that Michael Jackson was indeed Innocent of these crimes. He even said that some members of the media were actually 'frustrated' at hearing Janet's testimony, as they knew in the end the defense would have this case 'in the bag' and for some of them it seemed pointless being there if MJ was going to walk away from all of this... He told me to watch out for the news reporting of the trial going into the midweek of week two of the Defenses case. The public will see that the media will start reporting news that indicate that Michael Jackson is innocent of these crimes, to be exact he said that "they will report what I've been saying all along". 

He spoke of members of the media 'already packing up and going' and that even in the courthouse now, there are a lot of empty seats where the media representatives usually take their positions and will continue to do so until Michael Jackson's defense start to call the celebrity friends of Jackson's to the stand.

Wagner also stated that the Prosecution have taken advantage of Janet Arvizzo by putting her on the stand, knowing Michael Jackson is innocent and making her lie, as she is obviously a person who needs psychiatric help and this will do her longtime damage. I asked him was she as 'erratic' and 'animated' as the media have made her out to be on the stand and he responded with "have you seen the reenactments on Sky, well she is even more over-the-top than the actress who is portraying her, it's really that bad"... 

I told him that I was coming back out to Santa Maria for the start of July and Wagner said that "the case will be over by then". I asked him why did he think that and he said "because basically there is no need for Mesereau to put all these witness's on the stand and waste everyone's time, the Prosecution doesn't even have a case for Mez to counter attack!" He said all Mez will need is two or three weeks of witness's and this case is over!

He said that he wants to see Sneddon behind bars for this and that MJ can take him to court for wrongful prosecution (I think that's the words he used), but that this would be very difficult and that it's very hard to win a case like that.

He ended by saying that there is no way that Michael Jackson will be found 'Guilty' on any of these 10 accounts. This is his opinion of course and coming from a man who has been in that courtroom every single day since this trial has taken place and has been following the proceedings very closely, I tend to agree with him.

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