Porn Show

The jury in the Michael Jackson trial were treated to another porn show yesterday.

The prosecution showed them a veritable cornucopia of sexually explicit magazines and videos seized from Neverland. They also tried to show the jury the porn contents of Jackson's hard drives.

The prosecution said that their technicians isolated material on three computers at Jackson's Neverland ranch, that included teen-themed adult websites and information about adopting children.

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"We intend to use this evidence to show . . . Michael Jackson knows how to use a computer . . . that he knows how to access adult materials on Internet sites".

The defence said that the material was prejudicial, and noted that all of it was dated either two years before Jackson met Gavin or several months after his involvement with the child and his family had ended.

The defence also noted that there was no proof Jackson was the person who accessed the websites, much of the material could have been "cached," or automatically saved by the computers, from material that popped up in e-mail when others used the computers.

Judge Rodney Melville disbarred the computer evidence.

Judge Melville said that he had examined the computer material, and agreed with the defence that it may have been automatically stored by the computers and that "there wouldn't be any way of knowing if anyone looked at the material or not."

The porn that was shown to the jury included hundreds of adult magazines, DVDs and photos; but none of this involved children, or bore DNA from Gavin Arvizo.

The array included some magazines with teen themes that featured women just over age 18. There were titles such as Girlfriends, Finally Legal, Girls of Barely Legal, as well as Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler magazines and centrefolds.

Prosecution also introduced a portrait of a Jackson friend, actor Macaulay Culkin.

Why?