Michael Jackson is later today expected to come face to face, for the first time since his arrest, with the mother of the teenage boy who accuses him of molestation. According to Reuters, the woman, who is identified in court only as "Jane Doe" to protect her son's privacy, has been subpoenaed to testify today by Jackson's attorneys.
Jackson's lawyers are still trying to suppress evidence seized from the offices of a private investigator working for Jackson's former lawyer. They want Ms Doe to confirm that she knew that private investigator Brad Miller was working for Jackson's then lawyer Mark Geragos and that she gave police that information. If Jackson's lawyers can prove the authorities knowingly seized evidence that was being collated by the defense, then that would violate the attorney-client privilege and would prevent the prosecution from using the evidence in court. Or something like that.
Judge Rodney Melville, overseeing the Jacko case, has so far allowed some of the evidence taken from Miller to be used in the prosecution's case, but has deferred a final decision on the legitimacy of that evidence until after further hearings.
Among the evidence seized in the raid on Miller's office are videotaped interviews of Jackson's young accuser and his family in which they praise the singer and deny that he acted inappropriately with the boy. Jackson is accused of bullying the family into participating in the interviews.
Jackson is expected to be court for the mother's testimony today. He will stand trial himself on 31 Jan facing ten charges of child molestation and conspiracy.