Jackson lawyers slam authenticity of evidence
The discussion followed District Attorney Tom Sneddon’s announcement yesterday that the prosecution was resting its case, pending Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville’s decisions on admitting various items.
The debate at the Santa Maria court in California focused on 22 documents or other items, including an address book, legal agreements, emails, financial records, and a copy of a $1 million (E772,296) (£520,000) cheque cashed by a Jackson associate, Marc Schaffel, who is in a group of men named by prosecutors as unindicted co-conspirators in the case. The judge said yesterday that the prosecution might be allowed to re-open its case depending on his decisions on whether to formally admit various items into evidence.
