California authorities want Michael Jackson back in court – this time as a juror.

An attorney for the news media today demanded the release of transcripts from any closed hearings last week in the Michael Jackson case, citing a report that said the judge and lawyers have been meeting secretly to discuss questions from the jury.

The only dramatic flourish – a routine motion for acquittal – came from the defence. Otherwise, the end of the prosecution's nearly 10-week case against Michael Jackson was strictly no-frills.

WITH one ruling, Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has been transformed from a courtroom drama focusing on one child to a retrospective covering a decade’s worth of accusations against Jackson.

Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial has started to look like an X-rated show, complete with lurid magazine covers of topless women projected on a large screen in the courtroom.

Michael Jackson trial lawyers will spell out their cases to a jury today, more than a year after stunned fans watched authorities arrest the pop star and charge him with molesting a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch.

Four out of every five prospective jurors in the Michael Jackson trial are parents, it emerged today.

Prosecutors in Michael Jackson’s child molestation case want to introduce evidence that the singer allegedly committed other sex crimes over the years that went uncharged.

Michael Jackson’s lawyers have started a bid to dismiss the child sex charges against the pop star on the grounds of “vindictive prosecution and outrageous government conduct”.

Troubled pop star Michael Jackson is confronting the man who wants to put him behind bars over child-sex charges today, in a pre-trial hearing.

The court house in the small Californian town of Santa Maria today had the look of a fortress ready for a siege, with chain link fences and metal barricades to hold back an expected invasion of Michael Jackson fans.

Conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges were being considered against Michael Jackson's associates for allegedly threatening the family of the boy who accused the star of child molestation.

A district attorney who charged Michael Jackson with child molestation is convening a grand jury to hear evidence in the case, it is reported.

THE bad blood between pop star Michael Jackson and the prosecutor who has filed child molesting charges against him goes back more than a decade.

The bad blood between pop star Michael Jackson and the prosecutor who has filed child molesting charges against him goes back more than a decade.

The US terror investigation that has hauled in hundreds of Middle Easterners is being conducted with closed court hearings and sealed documents on a scale legal experts say may be unprecedented.