MICHAEL JACKSON, KING OF PORN

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. The prosecution intended from the outset to haul Jackson's reading materials before jurors, implying that he used the magazines to arouse young boys.

But Jackson is on trial for allegedly molesting a teenage boy, not for his taste in magazines. "They want the jury to get the sense of Michael Jackson as a pervert who doesn't live by the rules and is obsessed with sex," said Laurie Levenson, a former prosecutor and professor at Loyola University Law School. "But this could backfire."
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