Stung by several recent rulings favourable to the defence, prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child-molestation case said they planned to wrap up their case as early as this week.

PROSECUTORS in the Michael Jackson molestation case lost a key battle when a judge refused their request to allow testimony from a domestic violence expert to explain why the mother of Mr Jackson's accuser lied under oath.

THE jury in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial was discharged early yesterday to enable lawyers to debate various motions before Judge Rodney Melville.

A former security guard at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch testified today about a series of records which detailed activities at the property.