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respect77;4135128 said:
I think it's important to present how we got to this so called "confession" too. It wasn't something that Jordan came up with. His father literally blackmailed and threatened him into it: http://michaeljacksonallegations.com/how-did-the-allegations-of-the-chandlers-emerge/



http://michaeljacksonallegations.co...n-chandler-and-david-schwartz-on-july-8-1993/

Good point. That site you linked is great, been on it myself numerous times.

There is an error though when the article says: ' Jackson refuses to pay him – not only the initially demanded $20 million but also when Evan offers him that he would go away for $1 million.' It was Pellicano who offered $1 million which Evan rejected.

KOPV, are you looking to tell him about all the cases or the main ones? I'd also ask him why he believes MJ is guilty.
 
Bad7;4135144 said:
Good point. That site you linked is great, been on it myself numerous times.

There is an error though when the article says: ' Jackson refuses to pay him – not only the initially demanded $20 million but also when Evan offers him that he would go away for $1 million.' It was Pellicano who offered $1 million which Evan rejected.

Not a mistake at all. Haters love to represent it like that. "MJ offered him $1 million to hush him but brave Evan resisted and turned it down" - but that's not the truth. Like always, haters love to manipulate the information by taking things out of context and omitting certain facts.

Evan rejected the offer only first, hoping that Pellicano would come back with a higher offer. Instead he came back with a lower one (obviously because he wasn't really serious about these offers, he just wanted to have them on tape bargaining). Then Evan and his lawyer did tell him that he would go away from 1 million but then it was Pellicano who rejected him (which again shows that he was not serious). Read this article if you are not sure how it went: http://michaeljacksonallegations.com/the-chandlers-monetary-demands/

According to the book, on August 9 Pellicano came back with a counteroffer of $1 million to fund three screenplays written by Evan and Jordan. Evan turned it down. Then on August 13 Pellicano’s next offer, which made it clear that Pellicano was rather just keeping them in check and mocking them and not seriously bargaining, shocked Rothman and Evan: $350,000.

“Barry couldn’t believe his ears. Pellicano was completely ignoring the rules of the game. Barry started at twenty million, Pellicano had countered with one million, surely the next number should be somewhere in between. And strange as it was that Pellicano had lowered his million dollar offer, it was even crazier that he refused to reinstate it when Barry told him that he had “busted [his] hump for three days…getting Evan to hopefully agree.” [1; page 117-118]


According to the book, on August 17 Pellicano called Rothman to find out if Evan accepted the offer.
“Barry told him no, but suggested again that Evan might be willing to take the original million dollar offer if Pellicano was willing to renew it. “It’s never going to happen,” the investigator insisted.” [1; page 121]


The day before, on August 16, June Chandler’s attorney, Michael Freeman informed Rothman that they had filed a motion for a Court Order to have Jordan returned to his mother, June Chandler. In response to that and frustrated by Jackson’s refusal to pay him off, on August 17 Evan took Jordan to Dr. Abrams where the boy made his allegations against Michael Jackson, which inevitably involved the authorities and afforded Evan the ability to get custody of Jordan. According to All That Glitters:
“In a phone conversation the night before Freeman’s request was to be heard in court, Barry counseled Evan that unless he was willing to walk into the courtroom and accuse Michael of molesting Jordie, he didn’t have a prayer of winning; June had legal custody and that was all she needed to get Jordie back.” [1; page 119]


If one were to follow the above events, it is clear that Jackson had plenty of opportunities to pay off the Chandlers, had he really wanted to, before the case went public or to the authorities. He chose not to do so, which baffled Evan. Ray Chandler writes in his book:
“Fields and Pellicano already knew Evan was willing to negotiate. Why not pay him off and nip the nightmare in the bud while you’ve got the opportunity? Especially when you know your man is guilty of sleeping with little boys, at least. Not only do you avoid a civil suit, but also, more important, you buy your way around authorities by removing their star witness. Ten, twenty, thirty million? Money’s no object. The deal could be a fait accompli within hours. And if it doesn’t work, you can always come out swingin’ anyway.” [1; page 126]


and
“On the morning of August 17, 1993, as he negotiated with Barry Rothman, Anthony Pellicano had in his possession a copy of the psychiatrists report with the names omitted. He held in his hand the future of the most famous entertainer in human history. Yet the tape is replete with examples of Pellicano refusing to compromise on what would amount to chump change to Jackson. Why take the chance of Michael’s name ending up on that report and triggering an investigation?” [1; page 138]


Whether you use the term extortion to describe the above events or not, Ray Chandler closes the chapter about the “negotiations” with a standalone paragraph, as if to summarize the chapter and emphasize:
“Had Michael paid the twenty million dollars demanded of him in August, rather than the following January, he might have spent the next ten years as the world’s most famous entertainer, instead of the world’s most infamous child molester.”[1; page 128]


Yes, this is coming right from the accuser’s family. Meanwhile, please remember how Jordan’s allegations emerged: his father basically threatened and pressured him into saying what he wanted to hear. The same father who then used these allegations to try to “negotiate” with Jackson for money. Sources:
 
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Not a mistake at all. Haters love to represent it like that. "MJ offered him $1 million to hush him but brave Evan resisted and turned it down" - but that's not the truth. Like always, haters love to manipulate the information by taking things out of context and omitting certain facts.

Evan rejected the offer only first, hoping that Pellicano would come back with a higher offer. Instead he came back with a lower one (obviously because he wasn't really serious about these offers, he just wanted to have them on tape bargaining). Then Evan and his lawyer did tell him that he would go away from 1 million but then it was Pellicano who rejected him (which again shows that he was not serious). Read this article if you are not sure how it went: http://michaeljacksonallegations.com/the-chandlers-monetary-demands/

Oh, no, I never meant it to come across as me agreeing with the haters about MJ offering money... if that's the way it came across. It would of been ridiculous to immediately send Evan on his way rather than keep him at bay and see how the situation plays out. Along with preparing for the possibility of what ensued.

I stand corrected about Evan not offering to take a million. I didn't realise Evan came back willing to accept the million. I didn't remember reading that part when I read that article ages ago. Thus why I believed the article had made a mistake given Pellicano made a $1 million offer and Evan initially rejected it.
 
KOPV, are you looking to tell him about all the cases or the main ones? I'd also ask him why he believes MJ is guilty.
That's the first thing I'd ask him too-instead of going into all this detail. If he says the Arvizo case, then it's really easy to answer-there's no evidence-the timeline, no credible witnesses, etc.

If he says because he settled (the most likely thing), then I would point out all the motions that were made in court begging to have the criminal case go before the civil case-serious violation of civil rights to have this trial go before the other-anything Michael would have said would be incriminating in a criminal case. If charges were brought there would be no way to defend himself-no way.
You can add the tour, the illnesses, the stress that brought on the drug abuse-the pressure from Pepsi, Sony, his insurance company, his dependents to get it behind him-I would have settled too if the cards were stacked against me.

(I hate to bring it up-but nobody should have a civil case as evidence in a criminal case-it's like the crazy ruling the Judge just made in the Cosby case-no way he would have said what he did in a deposition, had he known criminal charges were coming years and years later. There is no new evidence-they're just using what he said in a SEALED deposition. Big violation of the 5th amendment. This is why you just can't trust judges to do the right thing).
 
I'm looking forward to hearing how this goes, I hope this man is willing to listen to what he's told. We have the family in the ATG book admitting that MJ was trying to get the criminal case brought before the civil case but are the actual court documents from that available? We have quite a bit on the 2005 case in the way of documents but not that much for the Chandler case. We don't really need these documents to prove that MJ was wanting the criminal trial first since even the accuser's family admits it but I'm sure there would be plenty of other interesting information in there.

When I search the Superior Court of Santa Barbara website I can find some civil cases regarding MJ but then when it tells you to put the case number into the search function for further information there aren't any results. I think I'm doing it wrong lol.
 
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I'm looking forward to hearing how this goes, I hope this man is willing to listen to what he's told. We have the family in the ATG book admitting that MJ was trying to get the criminal case brought before the civil case but are the actual court documents from that available? We have quite a bit on the 2005 case in the way of documents but not that much for the Chandler case. We don't really need these documents to prove that MJ was wanting the criminal trial first since even the accuser's family admits it but I'm sure there would be plenty of other interesting information in there.

Not only ATG says that. Geraldine Hughes' book Redemption too. She was the secretary of Barry Rothman at the time. Her book quotes a couple of court docs.
 
Thanks for everyone's feedback, I am aware that it would take more than 1 workout session to break through to someone but if I could plant the seed to open curiosity that's all I'd need... I came into work today come to find out saldly over the weekend his lung(s) collapsed and of course Im not meeting up with him today.
 
Thanks for everyone's feedback, I am aware that it would take more than 1 workout session to break through to someone but if I could plant the seed to open curiosity that's all I'd need... I came into work today come to find out saldly over the weekend his lung(s) collapsed and of course Im not meeting up with him today.

Oh my, that's awful. Hopefully he recovers sooner rather than later.
 
KOPV;4134976 said:
my question to you is - If you had this opportunity what facts would you want to make sure to NOT leave out.. he's a smart guy so I am hoping he'll be open

The best evidence of MJ's innocence is the autopsy report, Chandler's claim that MJ was circumcised,
the contradictory reports about what he said about Mj's body and what the photos showed all coming from MJ's worst enemies
and the fact that Sneddon didn't arrest him after that strip search.

It's my experience that haters simply don't know how to handle this evidence so they either say that Chandler didn't say he was circumcised (multiple anti-Jackson sources reported that he did say it)
or that it doesn't matter because he only saw his erect penis (nonsense if you consider what Chandler actually said) or that it doesn't matter because he correctly described the dark spot (problem is that if you listen to Dr. Strict or read the Chandler's own book he had more than one dark spot all over his body).
Dimond even tried to make the case that Chandler was "confused" whether MJ was circumcised, absolutely impossible if one knows what Chandler claimed he did with MJ. Clemente tweeted that Chandler couldn't tell the difference between erection and circumcision (nonsense in light of what Chandler actually said)

1. Tell him that Chandler gave an interview to Dr. Gardner on Oct 6 1993 where he claimed that he not only saw MJ naked multiple times including while taking baths but that he also mastrubated him about 10 times. Ray Chandler wrote in his book that Jordan had a "clear memory" of Mj's genitalia and saw it "from every possible angle".
Chandler was also Jewish and admitted to Gardner that he mastrubated on his own so he had to know how a circumcised penis looked during the whole thing.
Chandler did tell the police that MJ was circumcised, this was reported by Smoking Gun, Randy Taraborelli, Gutierrez and confirmed by Dimond and Jim Clemente all MJ haters who would not lie for him. In addition Arnold Klein the doctor who was present during the strip search also said in a radio interview with King Jordan that Jordan said MJ was circumcised but he was not. Klein called the Chandler case a hoax, by the way.
It's also very telling the Sneddon doesn't even mention the circumcision issue in his 2005 declaration, if Chandler had got it right
that MJ was uncircumcised Sneddon would have used that to boost his claim that Chandler's description was accurate. The Chandler's book also omits the circumcision issue, again very telling. They knew they got it wrong and they want everyone to just forget about it.

So ask him: if Chandler indeed saw MJ naked many times, if he indeed mastrubated him 10 times if he indeed had a clear memory of his genitalia and saw it from every possible angle how is it that he still didn't notice that he had a foreskin?

2. Sneddon, Spiegel (as quoted by Dimond), Dimond herself and Ray Chandler told four different tales about what the photos actually showed and what Chandler described. So anyone who says that the description was accurate should first decide exactly which of these was the accurate one?

Spiegel version: one dark spot on the lower left side - exactly where Chandler put it
or
Dimond version: pinkish splotches on the underside
or
Sneddon version: one dark blemish on the right side - at about the same relative location where Chandler put it
or
Ray Chandler version: numerous distinctive markings and discolorations

Sources:

Diane Dimond: Be careful who you love quoting police photographer Gary Spiegel:

"While I was on Mr. Jackson's left side, Dr. Strick asked Mr. Jackson to lift his penis. Mr. Jackson questioned why he had to do that, but he did comply with the request. When Mr. Jackson complied with Dr. Strick's request to lift his penis, I observed A DARK spot on the LOWER LEFT side of Mr. Jackson's penis.
Law enforcement sources as well as Chandler family sources said that the dark patch on Jackson's genitals was found exactly where
young Jordan Chandler said they could find such a mark."

Diane Dimond's blog, dianedimond.net:

In the opening chapter of my book I describe the day police went to serve a "body search warrant" on Mr. Jackson. They were looking to see if the boy's description of Jackson's erect penis as having PINKISH SPLOTCHES on it were correct.
Jordie was claiming to have seen the splotches on the side of Jackson's penis that was exposed only when he was in a sexually aroused state.

Tom Sneddon's declaration 2005:

I have examined the drawing made by Jordan Chandler at Detective Ferrufino's request and the photographs taken of Defendant's genitalia. The photographs reveal A MARK on the RIGHT SIDE of Defendant’s penis at about the same relative location as THE DARK blemish located by Jordan Chandler on his drawing of Defendant’s erect penis.

Ray Chandler: All that Glitters, page 210:

"It took several hours for Jordie to provide a description that Feldman could understand. There were NUMEROUS distinctive MARKINGS and discolorations on Michael's privates, and it was difficult for the boy to explain exactly where they were located, what size they were, and what shape they took."

They can't have it four ways but they are having it four ways because in reality MJ had many many brown spots on his body
in the early 90s, in fact he was brown and white from head to toe just like this photo which was taken around 1995
shows and Chandler didn't even come close to describe this reality:

mj_vitiligo_proof.jpg


If Chandler indeed just drew ONE dark mark on an otherwise fully white penis and said nothing else about MJ's skin
that alone proves that he was clueless about how he really looked.
MJ was a black man with a black penis who was losing melanin randomly. He was not a white man with a white penis with only one dark blemish on it. BTW it's ridiculous to call his original color blemish, too. If a white person would turn brown due to some skin disease would he call the white areas of his skin "blemishes" and "markings"? These idiots were talking about MJ as if he had been a white man with a mole.

3. Sneddon went to Neverland making it clear to MJ that if he doesn't cooperate they will take him. So he cooperated and they didn't take him. Ask him: If he was not arrested does that indicate that Sneddon got the evidence of his guilt he wanted?
The strip search was in Dec 20 1993. More than a month before the civil settlement. Even if someone argued that Sneddon didn't arrest him because Chandler was paid off (which would be ridiculous since the criminal investigation continued long after the civil settlement and chandler didn't tell Sneddon and Garcetti that he won't testify before June 6 1994) Sneddon still had plenty of time to arrest MJ in Dec and Jan (not to mention between Aug 17 1993 and Dec 1993) and he still didn't.
Ask him: what was the point of taking the photos if after the have them and they prove that MJ molested Chandler they don't arrest him at all?

4. Sneddon's 2005 declaration end with him chickening out in case the judge would allow the photos to be seen by the jury:

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct except for those statements made on information and belief, and as to those statements, I believe them to be true.

If Sneddon had been 100% confident that the photos matched the description he wouldn't have used this language.
Of course he knew the photos won't be allowed because Chandler was not there to be cross-examined and the whole argument of using the photos to rebut that MJ was "shy and modest" was bogus since no defense witness argued that MJ was shy and modest -- even though he was. There was nothing to rebut. Sneddon's bluff at the end of the trial was just that, he wanted to prejudice the jury without having to prove his claims.
Ask him: if the photos were the smoking gun evidence why didn't Sneddon try to introduce them as 1108 evidence?
Why wait until the end of the trial and try to introduce them on a bogus premise?


5. Reuters reported it in Jan 1994 that the photos did not match. The rest of the media ignored it for obvious reasons but repeated over and over again Sneddon's lie that the photos did match. Sneddon had a vested interest to plant this idea on the public's mind and he sure would not admit that he was dead wrong about the man he hated and wanted to put behind bars.
Especially not since he strip searched an African American icon, basically treating him like a slave.
But ask him: if the photos did match how is it that the very doctor who was hired by the government to do the strip search
was never shown the description and it was not him who made the determination whether they matched or not?
Remind him that that doctor Dr. Strict told FOX news in 2005 that he was TOLD that they matched which means he never
saw Chandler's description. If Sneddon was so sure why wouldn't he want his own expert to confirm it? Why would he hide
the description from him or all people?

6. Ask him if Chandler indeed saw MJ's naked body many times how come he didn't say anything about how his skin looked on his legs, torso, arms, back? How come he didn't say anything about the size and shape or ratio of the penis and scrotum, something that's instantly visible on a naked man obviously.
Tell him that it's obvious that the Chandlers merely speculated about MJ's body knowing that he had vitilgo, that his skin was
splotchy, that Evan Chandler even saw his buttocks when he injected some painkillers while MJ was in his house, that they assume he had little pubic hair because he was not a hairy guy and they assumed that he was circumcised because most American guys are but that's it. Those few things are not enough to ACCURATELY describe a male body especially not someone whose skin had brown and white areas all over his body.

7. Ask him why Victor Gutierrez wrote in his book that MJ was circumcised. Where the hell did he get that misinformation.
If he didn't cooperate with the Chandlers how come that he too speculated about it and was dead wrong?
And if he did cooperate with the Chandlers how come that a supposed molestation victims and his parents would work with
a NAMBLA supported pedophilia advocate?
In Gutierrez's book that description states that Mike circumcised and shows that the Chandlers, or Gutierrez himself
theorized about how MJ's body looked. In the middle of that page they wrote "My theory".
Why did they need a theory if Chandler knew exactly how MJ looked?

In addition to the photos there is irrefutable evidence that Jordan was coached and not just the fact that he was in Evan's custody for more than a month before they went public with the allegations.

The Chandlers book and Dimond's book both describe how Evan made Jordan "confess".

When Jordie came out of the sedation I asked him to tell me about Michael and him. I (falsely told) him
that I had bugged his bedroom and I knew everything anyway and that I just wanted to hear it from him.
I told him not to be embarrassed….”I know about the kissing and the jerking off and the blow jobs.”
This isn’t about me finding anything out. It’s about lying – If you lie then I’m going to take him (Jackson) down.

Diane Dimond Be Careful Who You Love, page 60

“I know about the kissing and the jerking off, so you’re not telling me anything I don’t already know,” Evan lied.
“This isn’t about me finding anything out. It’s about lying. And you know what’s going to happen if you lie.
So I’m going to make it very easy for you. I’m going to ask you one question. All you have to do is say yes, or no.
That’s it. Lie and Michael goes down. Tell me the truth and you save him.

Ray Chandler: All that Glitters; page 91

So Evan only imagined those things in fact Jordan told Dr. Gardner that his father never saw any molestation.

How come Evan imagined kissing and then kissing is prominently featured in Jordan's story?
How come Evan imagined mastrubation and then mastrubation is prominently featured in Jordan's story?
How come Evan imagined oral sex and then oral sex is prominently featured in Jordan's story?

This cannot be a coincidence. The only logical explanation is that the whole molestation story was invented by Evan
and then Jordan was told to memorize that story.
The fact that there was indeed a script written by Evan ready to be published right after the settlement, pages of that script
being in Gutierrez's book and Dimond's own book being eerily similar to the Chandler's book all point to a fabricated story
which Evan and Jordan put together in July and Aug with the help of Barry Rotham and most likely Gutierrez.

Not only the acts are the same but Jordan's actual words about MJ are also the same as Evan's ideas were while talking to Dave
Schwarz on July 8 1993. How come Jordan parrotted his father's words if he was not coached?

The fact that Jordan was incapable of emotionally connecting to the whole molestation story and didn't even know how it could hurt him,
- his "exuberant and whimsical" behavior right after talking to Dr. Abrams,
- him contradicting his father's story about whether he wanted to tell his mother or not,
- him contradicting himself about his attitude toward anything sexual with MJ (he told his father that "it was disgusting I'm not into that" but then told Gardner that he didn't stop MJ because "it felt good" -- so which one? )
- his contradictory description of MJ himself, first telling Gardner that he was functioning like a child and that's what he believed he was then telling him that he was overwhelming and powerful,
- first telling Gardner that he was not in awe of him because he was just a regular person then telling him that he and his mother were under his spell
- his interview being full of "I don't know" and "or something"
all indicate that he was coached and was just doing his best to recite a story rather than talk about what really happened to him.

If he brings up the settlement remind him that the first time Chandler demanded money was in Aug 1993 before the world even heard of them and MJ had an excellent opportunity to pay them off but didn't. He wasn't even willing to pay 1 million to silence the Chandlers which would have been nothing for him. Remind him that the Chandlers admitted in their own book in 2004 that if MJ had paid the 20 million demanded of him they wouldn't have accused him. And remind him that Sneddon claimed that by that time Aug 1993 he had molested 7 boys! if that had been the case he sure would have tried to prevent a police investigation and the media attention. He didn't pay because he was innocent and because he was innocent he was the one who wanted the criminal case go first, the Chandlers wanted to avoid a criminal indictement and they admitted that too in their book. They only wanted money.

If he asks why he would then settle at all tell him that you settle if

- you don't believe you would get a fair trial
by Jan 1994 because of the media's behavior, Sneddon's zealotry and bias, and the judge's decision to allow the civil case go before the criminal case MJ had absolutely no reason to believe that he would get a fair trial. Not to mention thanks to years of slander in the media and being and African American who looked white he had every reason to believe that the jury would be
biased from the get go. That's exactly what happened to two jurors in 2005 who wanted to profit from a guilty verdict and ruin him at the same time ignoring all the evidence that his accusers were liars. Without the other jurors forcing them to look at all the evidence they would have convicted him.

- you settle if you would lose even more money with a trial even if you win
How much did he lose because of the 2003 trial? Much more than 20 million. Because of the legal cost and because of the
horrible media coverage his reputation was destroyed no matter the verdict and with that his earning capability was significantly affected. That's what would have happened in 1994 too even if he had won in court. Why would he want that when he can
prevent it by paying a few million per year (he paid the Chandlers annually not at once)

- you settle if you are pressured by those who had a business interest to avoid a circus like the one in 2005
Sony obviously was losing money when MJ was not working and they didn't want to lose their goose that laid the golden eggs.
Branca advised MJ to settle for that reason.

- you settle if you simply don't want to go through the horror of a trial where every aspect of your personal life
would be exposed in the most intrusive way.
Again, that's exactly what happened in 2005 and someone as private as MJ it was extremely hard to take.

- you settle if you think a trial would destroy your health
That's what happened in 2005 where MJ was almost literally dead by verdict day. In 1993 he became dependent on opioids
had a lot of physical and emotional pain and after months of fighting the Chandlers, the media, the police and the judge
he had enough.

- you settle if you don't think the public would be informed about the truth even if you win in court
Again, that's what happened in 2005. He won on all counts and it didn't matter because Nancy Grace then goes on TV and tells everyone that he got away with hit because he is celebrity.
Anyone who says that he was guilty because he settled in 1994 should explain why he should have had a trial at all when
he couldn't clear his name even by winning on all counts? Why have a trial at all when the public doesn't care about the verdict?

Remind him that the Francias are good example that just because someone gets money does not mean they are telling the truth.
They too demanded money from MJ in 1994 like the Chandlers and threatened him to sue him if he doesn't pay so MJ did
since he already paid to get rid of the Chandler case and certainly didn't want more bad publicity and a trial.
But the Francias testified in 2005 and the jurors didn't believe them because they were so obviously opportunist phonies who used fake allegations to make millions.
 
^ To be honest, I think one has to keep it as simple as possible when talking to outsiders and not immediately overwhelm them with detailed information and overcomplicate if for them with details. That's never really effective. If they ask about the description or if they have the misconception that Jordan Chandler's description was a match, then sure explain it to them, but I think to go on about it in THIS much detail would only confuse them.

I think first one should really ask the other what he knows about the case and what he believes about it and then address those points that he brings up and that are problematic to him. Not confuse and overwhelm them with information that may not even be the problematic issues to them.

My experience is that the issues the general public usually brings up are:

- the settlement
- MJ sharing a bed with kids
- the stupid untrue tabloid rumour about MJ paying off dozens of kids.
 
I really do appreciate everyones input.. and its not so much its stuff I don't know but IDK If you guys are the same when put on the spot only the same key facts come up and you sit there and you tell yourself "I know so much more but being put on the spot I keep going to the same 'go to's" lol
 
Not confuse and overwhelm them with information that may not even be the problematic issues to them.

My experience is that the issues the general public usually brings up are:

- the settlement
- MJ sharing a bed with kids
- the stupid untrue tabloid rumour about MJ paying off dozens of kids.

Yes but they also bring up the "accurate description" BS too. And that's the strongest evidence of MJ's innocence actually because it's a medical fact that can be proven by an official medical document.

If someone says that Chandler knew how MJ's body looked you have to tell them why he didn't know it at all
and what the evidence of that is.

They also often argue that boys don't lie about things like that and kids don't make up stories like that.
That's why it's important to explain that Evan made up the whole thing and Jordan was coached for a month
and show the evidence in Jordan's own interview that he was just reciting his father's story.

Regarding the bed sharing it's important to explain that MJ shared rooms and bed with adults when he was a kid
and didn't even have his own bed in Gary, and as Karen Faye said "everyone laid in Michael's bed", men women girls
and boys alike. Moveover he never invited any boy to sleep in his bed, he just allowed it when the boys wanted to
sleep there and they did! I noticed that most people cannot even imagine that. They automatically assume that
MJ lured boys in to his bed. When I quoted Frank's book where he talks about how Gavin begged himself into MJ's room
in 2000 when he still had cancer the guy I was talking too simply didn't believe it. Despite the fact that Gavin himself
admitted to Bashir that he ASKED MJ whether he can sleep in his room.
It seems to me that people are incapable of accepting that those kids wanted to be around MJ day and night.
 
If your friend wants you to go into that much detail, (see the redfrog posts above) there is something wrong with your friend. Circumcised vs non-circumcised is enough.

By the way, hope he is ok.
 
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redfrog;4136201 said:

Spiegel version: one dark spot on the lower left side - exactly where Chandler put it
or
Dimond version: pinkish splotches on the underside
or
Sneddon version: one dark blemish on the right side - at about the same relative location where Chandler put it
or
Ray Chandler version: numerous distinctive markings and discolorations

Sources:

Diane Dimond: Be careful who you love quoting police photographer Gary Spiegel:

"While I was on Mr. Jackson's left side, Dr. Strick asked Mr. Jackson to lift his penis. Mr. Jackson questioned why he had to do that, but he did comply with the request. When Mr. Jackson complied with Dr. Strick's request to lift his penis, I observed A DARK spot on the LOWER LEFT side of Mr. Jackson's penis.
Law enforcement sources as well as Chandler family sources said that the dark patch on Jackson's genitals was found exactly where
young Jordan Chandler said they could find such a mark."

Diane Dimond's blog, dianedimond.net:

In the opening chapter of my book I describe the day police went to serve a "body search warrant" on Mr. Jackson. They were looking to see if the boy's description of Jackson's erect penis as having PINKISH SPLOTCHES on it were correct.
Jordie was claiming to have seen the splotches on the side of Jackson's penis that was exposed only when he was in a sexually aroused state.

Tom Sneddon's declaration 2005:

I have examined the drawing made by Jordan Chandler at Detective Ferrufino's request and the photographs taken of Defendant's genitalia. The photographs reveal A MARK on the RIGHT SIDE of Defendant’s penis at about the same relative location as THE DARK blemish located by Jordan Chandler on his drawing of Defendant’s erect penis.

Ray Chandler: All that Glitters, page 210:

"It took several hours for Jordie to provide a description that Feldman could understand. There were NUMEROUS distinctive MARKINGS and discolorations on Michael's privates, and it was difficult for the boy to explain exactly where they were located, what size they were, and what shape they took."

The Smoking Gun article about the description is interesting too:

"With Los Angeles Police Department detectives weighing his claims, Chandler gave them a roadmap to Jackson's below-the-waist geography, which, he said, includes distinctive "splotches" on his buttocks and one on his penis, "which is a light color similar to the color of his face." The boy's information was so precise, he even pinpointed where the splotch fell while Jackson's penis was erect, the length of the performer's pubic hair, and that he was circumcised."

http://web.archive.org/web/20100326035103/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/michaeljackson/010605jacksonsplotch.html

So many conflicting descriptions! Interestingly, the blog Vindicating Michael wrote about the problems with this description and not long after the blog post the article from the Smoking Gun was taken off their website. Too bad the article is still available on web archive sites! In the document Sneddon wrote that Chandler described colourations and markings on MJ's lower torso, buttocks and genitals but says nothing about whether or not the marking described on the torso or buttocks were accurate. He only mentions one marking being a supposed match on MJ's penis but doesn't say anything about the conflicting information given to TSG about a light coloured mark. Not mentioning the circumcision issue is something I find dishonest, if he wanted to argue the premise that an erect uncircumcised penis could be mistaken for a circumcised one then he should have put that in the document and admitted the problem with that detail instead of just claiming that Chandler accurately described his erect penis. That statement seems petty sneaky to me.

Ray Chandler in the ATG book claiming that Jordan described multiple markings is interesting too, if he drew or spoke about multiple marking on the penis then why aren't the other markings mentioned in Sneddon's document? Weren't they in the right place? Realistically I think that if you know a person has vitiligo and you've seen the skin colour markings on other parts of their body then it really wouldn't be difficult to sit down and guess where markings on a penis might be, you only have so much surface area to work with and at least one of your guesses could be right. Sneddon saying in the document he doesn't think this could be guessed sounds a bit ridiculous to me and so does the part about the marking being "in the same relative location" as Jordan claimed it was. For someone who publicly comes across as being so sure of it being a match he sure does leave out a lot and is very careful to cover his arse in case he's wrong. I'd also love to be able to see the Linden affidavit so see if the marking in that is in fact described as being of a light colour.
 
Also important to note that when the police first talked to the media about it in 1994 they said it was NOT a match.

Initial media reports after the 1993 strip search (for example, Reuters, USA Today in January 1994), citing law enforcement sources, stated that the boy’s description did not match the photographs taken of Jackson’s genitalia. The claim that the photos matched the description spread through the media only later – particularly after an interview Sneddon gave to Vanity Fair’s Maureen Orth in September 1995 where he claimed the photographs matched Jordan’s description [2].

This is supported by the fact that while before the Grand Jury Katherine was asked about this:

On March 16, 1994 the Los Angeles Times wrote:

“Jackson’s mother has frequently given interviews and made public appearances to defend her son, but a source close to the investigation said she may be questioned about Jackson’s physical appearance. Investigators have been attempting to determine whether Jackson has done anything to alter his appearance so that it does not match a description provided to them by the alleged victim, who turned 14 in January. [5]

When Dimond writes this

Law enforcement sources as well as Chandler family sources said that the dark patch on Jackson's genitals was found exactly where
young Jordan Chandler said they could find such a mark."

... and references "Chandler family sources" for her information, that's circular reasoning since in ATG the Chandler's own source for the claim that it was a match is once again that Sneddon interview with Orth in 1995. They did not claim to have seen the photos themselves. Not that they would be an unbiased source for such a claim, anyway. But the point is every such claim that it was a match leads back to one person: Sneddon. Before he made this claim in 1995 other police sources that the media talked to said it was NOT a match. Interesting, isn't it? So it suddenly started to "match" in 1995.

It's also dishonest that the police knew damn well before they even issued the search warrant for MJ's body that vitiligo markings change, so they are basically inadequate to determine someone's guilt. There was more than half a year between the alleged molestations and when MJ's body was photographed. After all it was LA deputy DA, Lauren Weis who told that info to Larry Feldman, according to ATG:


Oh, yeah, Lauren Weis told me today that this disease Michael says he’s got, vitiligo, that it’s capable of changing anywhere you look, so that anything Jordie says is irrelevant. It can change very quickly with this disease.“

“Shit, these guys seem to have an answer for everything.”

“No, that’s good for us!”

‘Why?”

“Because if he’s right, he’s right. And if he’s wrong, we’ve got an explanation!”

“Ha!”

“Yeah, it’s a no-loser for us.”

“That’s very good.”

“Good? It’s terrific! You stick with the teeth, kid. I’m sticking’ with the law.” [ATG, page 202-203]


How cynical it is that they wanted to have it both ways: if they found something that could be claimed a "match" it would be used against MJ, but every other detail that could not be twisted into a "match" would be explained away by vitiligo changing. Apparently Sneddon played this same game.

I find it very problematic from the POV of issuing a search warrant because such a search can be deeply traumatic to the subject (as it was to MJ) and there just does not seem to be a well founded probative value in it. And they knew it in advance as the above quote about Lauren Wies proves it!

I never heard about such body searches being routine in rape or molestation cases and it was not like the Chandlers volunteered information that made it necessary. In fact, they say in ATG that it was Sneddon who pushing this whole thing and who wanted it very much. It seems to me he did it only to humiliate MJ as much as possible.

With vitiligo changing, of course the circumcision issue is probably the most important aspect of this all (so as you said, Sneddon's neglect to even mention it in his motion is very dishonest) - and as we know even if the Chandlers had a 50-50% chance to guess it right they managed to guess it wrong.
 
If your friend wants you to go into that much detail, (see above) there is something wrong with your friend. Circumcised vs non-circumcised is enough.

People will come up with the most ridiculous excuses instead of admitting that they are wrong.
I ran into morons who said "what does a boy know about circumcision"? or "he correctly described the splotch on his penis so circumcision does not matter"
or "erection looks like circumcision". Why do you think both Dimond and Sneddon emphasized that Chandler described Mj's erect penis?
They just want to explain why Chandler was wrong.
That's why it's important to point out that what Chandler actually said. He said he saw him naked while taking baths and he mastrubated him 10 times and in their book they said he saw it from every possible angle. If someone knows those facts there is no way they can explain how Chandler could not see the foreskin.

He only mentions one marking being a supposed match on MJ's penis but doesn't say anything about the conflicting information given to TSG about a light coloured mark.


the "which" refers to the penis not the spot.

and one on his penis, "which is a light color similar to the color of his face."

Which is a good reason to know that it's BS. People forget that he was a black man with a black penis who was losing melanin randomly all over his body.
To believe that by 1993 May June his penis was fully white except for one dark spot is absurd mainly because you cannot just use Benoquin on the genitalia the skin is very thin there and you can easily burn yourself. This is how the poor guy looked in 1995 you can have some idea how the parts covered with clothes looked:
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It was Dimond who once said in her blog that MJ's penis was dark, otherwise the PINK splotches wouldn't make any sense,
they are only visible on dark skin. So Dimond went from white to black from her book to her blog. :crazy

The bottom line: if Chandler had seen him naked he should have accurately described a LOT of brown spots all over his body not just one. And if he had done that Sneddon's declaration would be bragging about every single piece of accuracy not just
one spot that was about "the relative same location".
Of course the Chandlers were informed about that after the strip search, no way that they didn't talk to Sneddon, their bozom buddy, about it.
That's why in their book they wrote that it took two hours to explain the numerous markings and discolorations. Except they didn't realize that with that
they flat out contradicted Sneddon and Dimond and Spiegel.

Realistically I think that if you know a person has vitiligo and you've seen the skin colour markings on other parts of their body then it really wouldn't be difficult to sit down and guess where markings on a penis might be, you only have so much surface area to work with and at least one of your guesses could be right.

Absolutely. And Sawyer's question how could a boy know those details was just one example how stupid people are when it comes to vitiligo.
It mostly affects the extremities, hands, feet, face and genitalia. It's a nobrainer to assume that a black guy with extensive vitiligo won't have a fully black penis.
Any of us could have "described" MJ the way the Chandlers did it. But to know the details about his whole body you should indeed see it and there was nothing in any of the reports about Chandler's "description" which proves that he knew those details.


so does the part about the marking being "in the same relative location" as Jordan claimed it was.

Yes and it's the exact opposite of what Dimond wrote: "the dark patch on Jackson's genitals was found exactly where
young Jordan Chandler said they could find such a mark."

So which one? At about the same relative location or exactly the same location?
 
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People will come up with the most ridiculous excuses instead of admitting that they are wrong.
I ran into morons who said "what does a boy know about circumcision"? or "he correctly described the splotch on his penis so circumcision does not matter"
or "erection looks like circumcision". Why do you think both Dimond and Sneddon emphasized that Chandler described Mj's erect penis?
They just want to explain why Chandler was wrong.
That's why it's important to point out that what Chandler actually said. He said he saw him naked while taking baths and he mastrubated him 10 times and in their book they said he saw it from every possible angle. If someone knows those facts there is no way they can explain how Chandler could not see the foreskin.

You regularly debate with haters and you relate your experiences to that, but I don't think the average person typically brings up these points. Of course, it doesn't harm to be well informed in case they do, but I don't think it's very effective if you jump the gun and overwhelm them with information about circumcision, erect penises, Diane Dimond, Victor Guiterrez and stuff like that (half of which they won't even understand why you bring them up and go on about them because they don't even know the context of these things or who these people are).

It's good to be prepared and be ammunitioned with information, just in case, but erect penises and circumcision and Dimond etc. is definitely not where I would start my argument, if I am the one who leads the conversation. In fact, like said before, I would first try to know what exactly makes them believe the allegations and address THOSE points.

I also think a good arument is not a long and verbose one, where you overwhelm your partner with information he did not even ask for, but a clean, a to-the-point one.

I really do appreciate everyones input.. and its not so much its stuff I don't know but IDK If you guys are the same when put on the spot only the same key facts come up and you sit there and you tell yourself "I know so much more but being put on the spot I keep going to the same 'go to's" lol

Yes, it may be a problem too, that an oral conversation is not always really the best way to discuss such matters. Especially if someone is shy and the other one is a more overbearing personality or a better speaker or whatever. This is why I prefer to discuss this in a written form.
 
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You regularly debate with haters and you relate your experiences to that, but I don't think the average person typically brings up these points.


Actually I got the "what does a boy know about circumcision" from an average person LOL
They can be just as bigoted as professional haters.
One said that there were DOZENS of credible eyewitnesses. Another that the Chandlers wanted money because what good it would do for them to have MJ in prison. And remember what Hultman said: it doesn't make sense to me that this man would sleep with a boy for 365 days and only watch movies and eat popcorn.
I almost fell out of the chair when I heard that. It doesn't make sense to him so therefore he would have put MJ in prison.
People in general are irrational bullies when it comes to MJ, it's not limited to the haters on Topix, unfortunately.

Of course first you have to tell them that Chandler couldn't describe MJ accurately at all but then they come back with the most ridiculous excuses. If not that's fine but my experience is that those who made up their minds about MJ based on the lies they heard from the media over and over again don't want to admit that they were fooled and use whatever absurd idea they can come up with to somehow justify their erroneous belief. I wish a few line of arguments would work but usually it does not.
 
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Actually I got the "what does a boy know about circumcision" from an average person LOL
They can be just as bigoted as professional haters.
One said that there were DOZENS of credible eyewitnesses. Another that the Chandlers wanted money because what good it would do for them to have MJ in prison. And remember what Hultman said: it doesn't make sense to me that this man would sleep with a boy for 365 days and only watch movies and eat popcorn.
I almost fell out of the chair when I heard that. It doesn't make sense to him so therefore he would have put MJ in prison.
People in general are irrational bullies when it comes to MJ, it's not limited to the haters on Topix, unfortunately.

Of course first you have to tell them that Chandler couldn't describe MJ accurately at all but then they come back with the most ridiculous excuses. If not that's fine but my experience is that those who made up their minds about MJ based on the lies they heard from the media over and over again don't want to admit that they were fooled and use whatever absurd idea they can come up with to somehow justify their erroneous belief. I wish a few line of arguments would work but usually it does not.

Well, most average people do not start with erections and circumcisions. Like, I said, of course you need to be prepared if they bring it up, but you seem to go in an argumentative way like "ask him why Dimond wrote this, ask him why the Guiterrez wrote that", you yourself leading the conversation to erections and circumcisions, and then your strategy seems to be to overwhelm him stuff most of which he may not even understand because he may not know the context about.

If they go to this topic they will more likely bring it up in a way like "I heard the boy's description matched". Then you can explain how it is not true and you can go more and more in-depth in case he does not seem to be satisfied with your replies. But the bottom line is: a more productive way to discuss this IMO is if you let him do the asking and address the points that concern HIM, not shove issues down his throat that he may not even be familiar with.

Of course first you have to tell them that Chandler couldn't describe MJ accurately at all but then they come back with the most ridiculous excuses.

No, first you ask them what makes them believe the allegations. The description may not even be an issue to some, they might be more concerned with something like the settlement or the way MJ was portrayed in the Bashir doc or something completely different. The bottom line is, be prepared for everything, but do not try to force any issue on him, when that may not even be his main concern. Let him do the asking!

Of course, it also depends on the other person. If he is an asshole and stubborn and just wants to be "right" in his preconceptions that's a whole different issue (and IMO such people may not even be worth debating with), but if it is a genuine discussion and a genuine interest in the case, then I think being aggressive and argumentative with him is not the way.

If he does not have any major issues that he can point out, just a general "gut feeling" that MJ was guilty or some sort of "no smoke without fire" mentality then I'd first start with introducing him to the basics of the case, starting with the Chandlers. Who this family was, how they met with MJ, how their allegations emerged, Evan first making allegations himself, then Jordan conveniently backing him up, the Chandler's main goal always being money etc. etc. First he would need to familiarize himself with the players and basic story before you could get into the kind of deep specifics you wrote about, otherwise those may only be confusing to him. And my experience is that most people are not even familiar with that - they heard MJ was accused X times and that is enough for them to believe he must have been guilty; they may have imagined a story about it to themselves, but mostly it has nothing to do with the real story and they may be surprised when you tell them about how it really went down and how this family was clearly focused on money, how this boy did not come up with his allegations voluntarily, but he was threatened into it by a father who then used these allegations to try to extort money out of MJ, how this father and the whole family never did anything that you would expect from a family whose child was really molested, never wanted to see the alleged molester in jail, they were always focused on money etc. They may also be surprised to learn that contrary to popular belief MJ hardly even met Gavin Arvizo before the Bashir doc and when they did MJ actively avoided him and how Gavin's allegations are not about MJ molesting him before the Bashir doc, like so many people imagine this story (including uninformed prosecution fans like Jim Clemente, LOL) - not surprisingly because that's what would make more sense, but that MJ starts molesting Gavin while all eyes being on him and being investigated for the Bashir doc, does not make any sense. But the Arvizos had to allege that because they hardly even met MJ before that.

So I would start with these basics. Then if he familiriazed himself with the stories and players and has questions I would try to address those questions.
 
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I agree with respect77, I think the majority of people that aren't knowledgeable on the case won't bring up 'the kid described his penis, blah blah blah'. The most common argument is 'he paid them off' and 'he slept in the same bed'.

Also, as he said, it's best to ask why they believe MJ to be guilty. You could easily go off on a tangent about something to do with the case, yet they've never even heard that part of it, and that's not why they believe MJ was guilty.

They may also be surprised to learn that contrary to popular belief MJ hardly even met Gavin Arvizo before the Bashir doc and when they did MJ actively avoided him and how Gavin's allegations are not about MJ molesting him before the Bashir doc, like so many people imagine this story (including uninformed prosecution fans like Jim Clemente, LOL) - not surprisingly because that's what would make more sense, but that MJ starts molesting Gavin while all eyes being on him and being investigated for the Bashir doc, does not make any sense. But the Arvizos had to allege that because they hardly even met MJ before that.

I didn't know Clemente thought molestation occurred before the Bashir documentary? I know he talks nonsense, but that'd really take the biscuit. Especially about the description Jordy gave and claiming Gavin gave one... when he never did. And both just so happened to describe him as circumcised he said. Also, his ignorance was astounding when he tried to make out that Jordy and Gavin lived miles apart and because they never met each other how did they form a similar story? 'Never read statements about the case' ... yet Jordy's declaration leaked. The whole world could of formed a similar story, ffs.

Do we know how much of a role he actually even played? He says he may of testified but for unfortunately having cancer. I have it in my head that he had something to do with going over the computers that had nothing on them in the end, but I'm probably wrong.
 
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I agree with respect77, I think the majority of people that aren't knowledgeable on the case won't bring up 'the kid described his penis, blah blah blah'. The most common argument is 'he paid them off' and 'he slept in the same bed'.

What's generally a good comeback/defence for "he paid them off"? I used to say his insurance did it against his will, but turns out that's not actually true according to people on here.

Normally for "he slept in the same bed", I just go with "well actually he slept on the floor whenever they slept in the bed, even the accusers said that". As for the penis thing, I think I had one person at high school go "well yeah but the kid described his penis" and I went "well actually, he said Michael was circumcised but Michael wasn't sooooo" and that shut him up pretty quickly (plus it's helps because it's awkward or even gross to discuss something as specific as his circumcision ahah).
 
I agree with respect77, I think the majority of people that aren't knowledgeable on the case won't bring up 'the kid described his penis, blah blah blah'. The most common argument is 'he paid them off' and 'he slept in the same bed'.

Also, as he said, it's best to ask why they believe MJ to be guilty. You could easily go off on a tangent about something to do with the case, yet they've never even heard that part of it, and that's not why they believe MJ was guilty.
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Exactly. A regular person will not know or care about all these details.
And people on the internet are not open or interested. They'll just make stuff up and state it as fact, as Clemente does.
I see it on YouTube and Yahoo all the time.
 
What's generally a good comeback/defence for "he paid them off"? I used to say his insurance did it against his will, but turns out that's not actually true according to people on here.

Normally for "he slept in the same bed", I just go with "well actually he slept on the floor whenever they slept in the bed, even the accusers said that". As for the penis thing, I think I had one person at high school go "well yeah but the kid described his penis" and I went "well actually, he said Michael was circumcised but Michael wasn't sooooo" and that shut him up pretty quickly (plus it's helps because it's awkward or even gross to discuss something as specific as his circumcision ahah).

The settlement is much deeper than a lot who say 'he paid them off'. There was no 'hush money' as some refer to it as. How do you 'hush' something the whole world knows about?

First of all, a little known fact to the average person is that MJ could of 'paid off' the Chandlers in August 1993 before any of it went public. It's worth noting to people that Evan never once went to law enforcement. He wanted money from the get go.

By the time the settlement came about in January 1994 a lot had happened. MJ's health had deteriorated dramatically. He'd checked into drug rehabilitation by this time. Also, by this time, a lot of things had gone against MJ in the case. His lawyers filed a motion asking for the civil case to be delayed until the criminal case was over, this was denied. If MJ wanted to 'pay off' the Chandlers he had still had the opportunity to do so yet wanted the criminal case to go first. When this motion was denied MJ's team then filed another motion asking for any evidence from the civil trial to not be included in the criminal case.

Had MJ gone ahead with the civil case he'd of had to lay his defence strategy on the table. This would of left him in a bad position in the criminal case given Sneddon could change parts of the story that didn't fit. Given Sneddon changed dates of alleged molestation in 2005, this was more than possible. The other factor to the civil going before the criminal trial is the verdict. In a civil trial a verdict doesn't have to be unanimous. You can lose a case 51-49 in favour of the other party. Losing the civil case would also of gone against him in the criminal trial.

In a sense, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Everything was going in favour of the Chandlers in terms of motions.

The settlement never stopped the family from testifying in a court of law, they just never wanted to.

Another pivotal part to add is that at the time 95% of civil cases were settled out of court. The law ENCOURAGES people to settle out of court. Lisa Marie also encouraged him to settle.

Something I also found dodgy was the defence lawyers involved. Howard Weitzman came into the case and wanted a settlement from day one. Bert Fields, the other defence lawyer at the time, did not. He wanted to cross examine Jordy. Fields made an error and was subsequently fired sometime later. In came Johnnie Cochran who agree with Weitzman about a settlement being the best course of action. Cochran negotiated the settlement with the Chandlers' lawyer Larry Feldman. Cochran and Feldman just so happened to be friends and Feldman would work for Cochran in later years. Ironically, Feldman ended up with more money from the settlement than Jordy's parents did!

I forgot to add also, the media were a disgrace. Nightly programming about the supposed molestation yet they never actually had any evidence to make a program. It was all speculation. Also, the civil trial could of been televised. Court TV were looking to televise it if allowed to do so. Who'd want their personal life to be aired in public?

Another thing I just remembered is civil cases can drag on and on and this would of meant MJ couldn't work.
 
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I didn't know Clemente thought molestation occurred before the Bashir documentary? I know he talks nonsense, but that'd really take the biscuit. Especially about the description Jordy gave and claiming Gavin gave one... when he never did. And both just so happened to describe him as circumcised he said. Also, his ignorance was astounding when he tried to make out that Jordy and Gavin lived miles apart and because they never met each other how did they form a similar story? 'Never read statements about the case' ... yet Jordy's declaration leaked. The whole world could of formed a similar story, ffs.

Do we know how much of a role he actually even played? He says he may of testified but for unfortunately having cancer. I have it in my head that he had something to do with going over the computers that had nothing on them in the end, but I'm probably wrong.

Yes, once I had a discussion with him on YT and I realized how ignorant he was about the case. All he did was trying to win the argument by appealing to his credentials: "I have the credentials so I know this better bla-bla". Well, you don't when you have even the basic facts of this case wrong and you make claims that are contradictory with what was actually alleged even by the accusers and you base your arguments on such claims that you are just taking out of thin air. When I called him out on that he just disappeared and never replied to me again. LOL.

I think his role would have been to make a general expert testimony about the general psychology of child molestation and stuff like that. He would not have testified about things that are specific to this case. It's very obvious he is very ignorant about the actual case.
 
The settlement is much deeper than a lot who say 'he paid them off'. There was no 'hush money' as some refer to it as. How do you 'hush' something the whole world knows about?

First of all, a little known fact to the average person is that MJ could of 'paid off' the Chandlers in August 1993 before any of it went public. It's worth noting to people that Evan never once went to law enforcement. He wanted money from the get go.

By the time the settlement came about in January 1994 a lot had happened. MJ's health had deteriorated dramatically. He'd checked into drug rehabilitation by this time. Also, by this time, a lot of things had gone against MJ in the case. His lawyers filed a motion asking for the civil case to be delayed until the criminal case was over, this was denied. If MJ wanted to 'pay off' the Chandlers he had still had the opportunity to do so yet wanted the criminal case to go first. When this motion was denied MJ's team then filed another motion asking for any evidence from the civil trial to not be included in the criminal case.

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Wow, that's very informative. Thank you! I am aware of the civil vs. criminal trial thing.
 
Yes, once I had a discussion with him on YT and I realized how ignorant he was about the case. All he did was trying to win the argument by appealing to his credentials: "I have the credentials so I know this better bla-bla". Well, you don't when you have even the basic facts of this case wrong and you make claims that are contradictory with what was actually alleged even by the accusers and you base your arguments on such claims that you are just taking out of thin air. When I called him out on that he just disappeared and never replied to me again. LOL.

I think his role would have been to make a general expert testimony about the general psychology of child molestation and stuff like that. He would not have testified about things that are specific to this case. It's very obvious he is very ignorant about the actual case.

What a pathetic comeback from him. In that case, if it's all about credentials, there may as well never be a jury in any case as they're all just normal people who aren't qualified.

I think it was MJResearcher that posted a series of tweets from Clemente. There were some hater's saying something along the lines of 'MJ fans thinking they know more than an expert' when they disagreed with Clemente... yet, ironically, going by their logic then Clemente is totally correct about what Jordy described (as we can't argue with him), which just so happens to contradict Sneddon. Hater's truly have no idea.

He does seem highly ignorant. I mean no offence to abuse victims who read this, but Clemente being one himself, I think influences him to side with children irrelevant of the holes in the stories. Especially given he defended Gavin's testimony by saying children can forget and be under pressure on the stand. That's true, but the other side to that is they could be lying which he appears to see as impossible.

Wow, that's very informative. Thank you! I am aware of the civil vs. criminal trial thing.

If you can, try to remember as much as you can about the settlement. As it's a pivotal part and goes far deeper than the usual media/average person spin of 'MJ was accused, he paid them off'.
 
Especially given he defended Gavin's testimony by saying children can forget and be under pressure on the stand. That's true, but the other side to that is they could be lying which he appears to see as impossible.

Well, the things Gaving contradicted himself on are pretty big things to simply "forget". Also, Gavin did not seem to have been stressed on the stand. In fact, it seems like he viewed it as some sort of stand-up comedy. Remember, he cracked jokes while testifying in front of the Grand Jury.
 
Wow, that's very informative. Thank you! I am aware of the civil vs. criminal trial thing.

My post here talks about possible reasons for the settlement as well:

http://www.mjjcommunity.com/forum/threads/133197-Debates-with-the-public?p=4124287&viewfull=1#post4124287

The funny thing is, many people seem to think that bringing up the settlement is a trump card that wins the argument because they don't know any other reasons why a person would settle in a case like this. It can wipe the arrogant smile right off their faces when you can give them multiple possible reasons apart from guilt. One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking that because they don't know, neither does anyone else. I think a lot of people make an assumption that anyone who defends MJ doesn't know what they're talking about so it's very satisfying when you prove you do and tell them many things they didn't know.

I think it was MJResearcher that posted a series of tweets from Clemente.

It was respect77. This was the first time I'd seen or heard anything from Clemente and I was shaking my head a lot, I would have thought that a former FBI profiler wold know better than to think that MJ and Gavin "frolicking around Neverland" somehow proved sexual molestation. When someone who was that high up apparently doesn't understand what it actually takes to prove sexual abuse it's pretty scary. I also can't help but think that Clemente's own abuse clouds his judgement, along with the number of years he worked with abused children. The ironic thing is that he's quick to complain about fans being biased! When he's asked for evidence to prove MJ was guilty he can't give anything that is either accurate or provable, so then he does the equivalent of stomping his feet like a child and says that he's an expert. That's nice Clemente, but you're supposed to be proving MJ guilty, not giving fallacious arguments.

MJ's mother receiving a subpoena regarding the appearance of MJ's genitals never made sense to me, if you want that kind of information about an adult male wouldn't it make more sense to subpoena his doctor or dermatologist? How many adult males regularly show their genitals to their mothers?! In my opinion it seems they were trying to embarrass him.
 
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