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   From: modpol@igs.net   
      
   Jackson Jury Back in for Deliberations   
    By TIM MOLLOY   
   Posted June 8, 2005, 12:07 PM EDT   
      
   SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- Jurors in Michael Jackson's   
   trial started their third full day of deliberations   
   Wednesday on the child molestation charges that could   
   send the pop star to prison.   
      
   The jurors arrived Wednesday morning and headed into   
   the courthouse, entering the jury room at 8:22 a.m.   
   They already had spent more than two days deliberating   
   since getting the case late last week.   
      
   The panel meets daily from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with   
   three 10-minute breaks.   
      
   The scene around the courthouse, where many fans and   
   reporters have gathered, was low key compared to   
   Monday, when the unexpected appearance of the   
   defendant's father sent the crowd surging. On Tuesday,   
   another famous face visited the courthouse -- the Rev.   
   Jesse Jackson, who said the singer was optimistic as he   
   awaited the jury's decision.   
      
   "If Michael's friends did not stand up for him in a   
   public way, you would ask, 'Where are they?'" Jesse   
   Jackson said. He also said that rumors have continued   
   to swirl about Jackson's health and he wanted to   
   reassure everyone that "he is resting comfortably" in   
   spite of great back pain.   
      
   The 46-year-old singer is charged with molesting a   
   13-year-old cancer survivor in 2003, giving the boy   
   alcohol and conspiring to hold his family captive to   
   get them to rebut a documentary in which Jackson   
   appeared with the boy and said he let children into his   
   bed but it was nonsexual.   
      
   Copyright © 2005, Orlando Sentinel |   
      
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