Both sides rest in Jackson case
Jury could get case next week
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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- The Michael Jackson child molestation case is heading toward its close. Both sides rested Friday in something of a surprise.
The defense decided to rest without rebuttal after the prosecution played a videotaped interview with the accuser.
The police video, which was recorded July 6, 2003 by Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department detectives, offered a graphic description of what the accuser says Jackson did to him.
Judge Rodney Melville ordered jurors to watch it solely to assess the boy's demeanor, manner and attitude, not to determine the truth of the matter.
The prosecution contends the tape is compelling because of how long it takes the boy to accuse Jackson of molesting him.
Defense attorney Robert Sanger has contended the boy appeared staged and that he was coached by his mother on what to say.
After the tape was played, Sanger's team said simply, "Your honor, the defense rests."
The defense had been expected to recall the accuser, his mother, a psychologist and an attorney for the family.
Instead, the jury will receive its instructions and hear closing arguments before getting the case.
The indictment against Jackson alleges that he and five co-conspirators were part of the plan to control the family, which included holding them against their will.
In his testimony Friday detective Craig Bonner discussed Jackson's bedroom alarm system -- a series of chimes that are activated at various volumes when any of several light beams are broken. The system was set up outside his Neverland Ranch sleeping quarters to warn of approaching visitors.
Bonner said he went to the ranch twice last year, on November 18 and December 4, and found that one of the chimes and the volume control were not working.
In a demonstration video prepared by the defense, both sets of chimes are shown to be working, as is the volume control.
Also Friday, prosecutors entered into evidence two checks from Neverland Valley Entertainment made out to Jackson. One was for $500,000, the other for $1 million. Also included were a March 28, 2003 letter signed by Jackson informing a Las Vegas lawyer that he was being fired, and a statement from the accuser's mother saying, "I would never have given consent" to her son's appearance in a documentary about Jackson.
It was that documentary, "Living with Michael Jackson" by British journalist Martin Bashir that showed the pop star holding hands with the boy who later accused him of molestation.
For the defense, Melville said he will allow notes written by former Jackson attorney Mark Geragos to be admitted as evidence.
The notes are to be delivered to the prosecution Monday, a court holiday.
Jackson, 46, attended court Friday with his parents, Joseph and Katherine. He wore a dark jacket and pants, white shirt, red tie, patterned red vest and gold armband.
He was indicted last April by a state grand jury on 10 felony counts for incidents that allegedly occurred in February and March 2003: Four counts of committing a lewd act on a child; one count of conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion; one count of attempting to commit a lewd act on a child; and four counts of administering an intoxicating agent to assist in the commission of a felony.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
CNN's Dree De Clamecy contributed to this report.
