They’ve taken too long because the system is screwed up
Posted in General on 25. Sep, 2010
They’ve taken too long because the system is screwed up.”In a telephone interview from the Mansfield Correctional Institute , Ohio, Mr Richey said: “I went ‘whoop, whoop!’ when they told me the news but I’ll only be happy when they open the door and let me out.”Speaking in a broad Scottish accent, which remained undimmed despite his years in jail, Mr Richey said that he had managed to remain strong because of the support of his fianc?and family.”I never let it get to me, and what kept me going was the support I’ve received from my wife, family and friends and loved ones. He bludgeoned to death a barber and stole his money.” On second was George Saban, “he shot his wife and two children”. One evening, an interrogator assaulted an Afghan prisoner in front of Mr Begg, forcing a confession to theft.Three weeks later, on 21 February 2002, Mr Begg was flown to Kandahar. Issued with an “enemy prisoner of war” identity card by the International Committee of the Red Cross and a ID number he had throughout his detention, he was soon transferred to Bagram. A Briton who faced the death sentence for 18 years in an American jail has spoken for the first time of his harrowing ordeal, saying he was “treated like an animal” for a crime he did not commit. It was during that programme that Jackson defended sharing a bed with boys.Jackson’s lead attorney, Thomas Mesereau, intends to portray the children’s mother as a money-hungry and untrustworthy woman who set out to obtain as much as she could from Jackson “It was a shakedown,” he told an earlier hearing..
Along the way, he alleged, Jackson invited the boy into his bed and molested him.According to documents, the children’s mother is a critical witness to the alleged conspiracy to imprison her family at Jackson’s ranch after the February 2003 broadcast of Living With Michael Jackson. It apparently intends to portray the pop star as a textbook paedophile, who plied children with wine and liquor. It also intends to cast him as a bizarre schemer who held the family of his alleged victim under virtual house arrest in order to tape a video of the boy proclaiming the pop star’s innocence.The heart of the prosecution case rests largely on accounts provided to investigators by Jackson’s alleged victim, who was 12 at the time of the alleged molestation and is now 15; his brother, who is a year younger; and their older sister and their mother.The Santa Barbara County prosecutor, Gordon Auchincloss, contended at a preliminary hearing that Jackson treated the boy and his family to lavish gifts and introduced them to “a world of self-indulgence” to win them over. The selection of a jury, which begins tomorrow, is expected to take about a month and the trial could last another six months.The leaks, based on confidential police and government reports, grand jury testimony and sealed court records, give a clear picture of how the prosecution will present its case. The judge, however, ordered the Jackson transcripts to be sealed, along with most other documents in the case.At a preliminary hearing on Friday, Judge Melville gave permission for the prosecution to show the jurors erotic material – books, magazines and DVDs – seized at Neverland Ranch and Martin Bashir’s ITV documentary Living With Michael Jackson, in which Jackson held hands with his young accuser and admitted that he often shared his bedroom with children.The judge warned lawyers on both sides: “The world is watching justice in the United States here …
These accusations are irresponsible, unfounded and untrue.”The statement is, in part, a response to reports quoting from transcripts of grand jury testimony given in the case. Jackson’s accuser described the alleged offences in graphic detail, including an incident when the pop star allegedly molested him on a bed.Grand jury transcripts are normally made public in California 10 days after a defendant receives them. An unusual posting on the sheriff’s website states: “We consider the release of these materials to be a violation of the law. Some media commentators have alleged that we are responsible for these leaks We are not. He was then promoted to prison nurse, and his quick thinking more than once saved lives Seng himself was well aware of the transformation. “I never received a square deal until I was brought to the penitentiary,” he wrote shortly before he died.