Judge rodney melville biography
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Evidence From ‘90s Is Allowed in Jackson Trial
SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child-molestation rättegång won a major victory Monday when a judge said he will allow them to present evidence that the entertainer molested or inappropriately touched five boys in the s -- and paid legal settlements to two of them.
Legal experts say the decision will bolster the prosecution’s case, but it is also expected to substantially lengthen the trial.
Santa Barbara County Dist. Atty. Tom Sneddon said the bevis will corroborate testimony from a Los Angeles boy who earlier this month told jurors that Jackson molested him at his Neverland ranch in
The testimony, he said, is particularly betydelsefull because it is “very similar, if not identical,” to the current case. Each of the boys was between 10 and 13 years old during the alleged incidents; the current alleged victim said he was 13 when Jackson molested him.
Jackson’s lawyer, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., said the e
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Investigators in the Michael Jackson child molestation case have seized about pages of phone records, videos of the pop star, and a DVD of a party at his Neverland Ranch, according to court documents.
The documents released Monday included search warrants from January, law enforcement affidavits requesting them and lists of seized items.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville agreed last month to release the records, but ordered details to be omitted; the resulting documents do not include such data as where the warrants were served and descriptions of the items taken.
Whether the items will have any significance in the case wasn't immediately clear. Jackson attorney Benjamin Brafman cited a gag order in declining to comment.
Phone records with the number omitted were in response to a warrant dated Jan. 22, - the same day comedy club owner Jamie Masada, who introduced Jackson to his ung accuser, held a news conference saying he had received threateni
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Rodney Melville
American judge (born )
Rodney Scott Melville is a presiding judge in Santa Barbara County's superior court. He was the judge in Michael Jackson's child molestion trial, in which Jackson was acquitted.
Biography
[edit]Melville was born in and studied at San Diego State University and Hastings College of the Law, University of California.[1]
Melville, now living in Sacramento, California, became an attorney for the firm Melville & Iwasko and became a state certified specialist in family law. Melville served as a deputy district attorney in the San Bernardino County district attorney's office for two years.[1]
In , Melville was appointed to the municipal court bench. After three years he was promoted to the superior court.[1]
Melville retired as a judge for the superior court in , having served 17 years.[2]
People v. Jackson
[edit]In , Michael Jackson was accused of child molestation by a year-old boy. The ca