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...jury selection got under way last week in Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., so began what is anticipated to be a six-month media extravaganza. Jackson himself got things rolling with a video, posted on his website, proclaiming his innocence. (He sent the same signal sartorially, wearing a white suit, far right, on his first day in court.) If convicted on all 10 counts, the Gloved One faces up to 24 years in prison. Can he beat it? Here's a Notebook rundown of what to expect. --By Jeffrey Ressner. With reporting by Matt Kettmann...
PROSECUTION'S CASE The accuser, 15, will testify that Jackson groped him. A documentary in which they hold hands, left, and erotic material with their fingerprints on it will be shown to jurors...
DEFENSE'S STRATEGY Jackson's lawyers, left, will grill the boy's mom, whose first call after the alleged abuse was to a lawyer who had wrung a big settlement from Jacko over similar charges...
USHER has a confession to make: "Bobby Brown was my Michael Jackson." Steady there. What he means is that his childhood music hero was a guy who wore parachute pants. Wisely, Usher--or his handlers--hewed a little more classically when choosing icons for him to be photographed as for his March 5 Showtime special. Here the 26-year-old channels dapper Fred Astaire, "an elegant, graceful song-and-dance man," Usher says. He also donned Marvin Gaye's white cap--a sentimental favorite from "growing up hearing What's Going On at cookouts," he says--as well as wardrobes...
...days when America gathered around the TV set to watch celebrities like O.J. Simpson on trial now seem as distant as Father Knows Best. The Michael Jackson case is the latest in a long string of recent high-profile cases--Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake, Bernie Ebbers and more--in which cameras have been banned or severely restricted. So desperate is TV for at least a semblance of in-court coverage that the E! cable channel is planning to air daily re-enactments, with actors playing Jackson, the lawyers and the witnesses...