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The judge in Michael Jackson's trial on molestation charges has barred prosecutors from calling an expert on domestic violence. Prosecutors wanted the domestic violence expert to explain why the mother of Jackson's accuser lied under oath. "There are many enigmas about why (the woman) acted the way she did," prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss said, conceding that elements of her behaviour were "counter-intuitive."
Defense attorney Robert Sanger argued the prosecution was trying to give the woman a "pass" for committing perjury under oath. "She has committed perjury in this case from the stand," Sanger said. "This is not because she's a battered woman, it's because she lies for gain." The testimony of the mother of Jackson's teenage accuser is a key to establishing that her family was "imprisoned" at Neverland, one of the 10 criminal charges against the 46-year-old singer.
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Judge Rodney Melville said he would allow evidence showing that Jackson's accuser, then 13, and younger brother had masturbated while looking at the pop star's pornography, potentially bolstering defence claims that the boys had run wild at Neverland.
Both rulings were setbacks for the prosecution, which is in the final stages of presenting its case to the jury of eight women and four men.
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