"I cannot believe how quickly a jury was selected in the Michael Jackson case, let alone the fact that Jackson's defense team would accept 8 women and 4 men, with no African-American jurists. This on top of the damaging Martin Brashir documentary and with no defense experts, I feel Jacko is doomed in court."

Tampa, Florida (February 22, 2005) – What is Michael Jackson’s legal team thinking? Do his legal pundits think they will win a jury acquittal without employing experts? If so, according to noted author and forensic trial consultant Dean Tong, they’re living in Neverland.

 

Tong, author of the critically acclaimed book Elusive Innocence: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused and a forensic consultant who has been hired by parents and attorneys in contested abuse and custody cases from 41 states, believes that Jackson’s legal strategy of attempting to paint his accusers as liars is troublesome.

 

“The mindset of the jurors will be I’ve heard these accusations against him before, where there’s smoke there’s fire, multiple kids don’t lie and if we’re going to err we’ll do so on the side of the children, not Elizabeth Taylor or Quincy Jones,” Tong exclaims. Tong claims that ABC news has already reported Judge Melville will allow expert testimony for the prosecution probably regarding delayed memory recall trauma of the child accusers. And the court has not yet ruled on whether past sexual child abuse accusations and Jackson’s propensity to be a hebephile will be admissible.

 

“I don’t play the let’s wait and see what happens game in these cases,” Tong barks. “Take no prisoners, this is America versus Iraq, and this is war,” Tong notes. “Jackson, if he is truly innocent of child molestation, should be submitting to a series of sexual deviancy tests like a Plethysmograph and Abel Screen (www.abelscreen.com) to glean if he’s truly the monster the prosecution says he is,” Tong states.

  

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To contact Dean Tong for interviews please call him at 1-800-854-0735, 813-671-4190, or 813-417-5362. Or,you can e-mail him at DeanTong@aol.com. To glean more comments from Tong on the Jackson case please visit - http://www.aimpress.com/tongjackson.htm. And, please visit Tong’s personal website, too, at www.abuse-excuse.com.