It is classified as evidence, the subject is clearly written as "child pornography" and its says "priority handling requested"
I am pretty sure that most material that gets sent to the FBI and back by and to another authority for examination gets handled as "evidence" in post. It simply has a stamp which says as "evidence" it gets priority handling in post and upon delivery do this and that. However, nowhere does the document say it is considered or used as evidence
against Michael Jackson. Nowhere does it say it is child pornography
involving Michael Jackson. Why do we add incriminating details to it that are simply not there in the document itself?
Are you telling me that the FBI gave MJ the benefit of the doubt, when they confiscated it they thought it had no connection to him? their agents are to this day are hell bent he was guilty and were not any better than Sneddon when it came to hiding evidence. Mez himself said most of the information reveled after MJ's death which was exonerating was not released to the defense nor he had any idea they existed during the trial.
The FBI did not confiscate it. The West Palm Beach custom service did. The FBI's only involvement in this is that they were asked to examine it. Local authorities frequently ask the FBI to do such things when they do not have the expertise or resources to carry out such an examination. Just like in 2005 when the Santa Barbara prosecutors sent MJ's computers to the FBI for examination. The FBI did nothing here but simply examined the tape and then sent back their findings to the local authority. That's all this document is about, nothing else.
OK, I see. Considering the FBI history with MJ whose agents were vocal on TV commenting on how guilty they believed him to be, on the other hand no single word from them when the tabloids twisted every document they released after MJ's death refuting the totally twisted interpretation of the information contained in the files released, considering that they deliberately hidden exonerating evidence from the defense in 2005 based on Mez statement, I opt not to have much confidence in your explanation.
Where does what I said suggest that the FBI were acting in MJ's favour? In fact, if I want to have bad faith about them I could say that maybe it is deliberate that they threw this file among MJ's files when it has nothing to do with him other than his name being written on a tape. Actually I can imagine it being deliberate for the reasons you mention.
Because whatever service he would have used at the time the tape would have ended up with the FBI for children pornography is a federal crime. However, similar to your assumption here that Sneddon would have been informed by the FBI about the existence of such tape, Victor might have assumed then, reasonably, anything related to Jackson would end up with the prosecutors who were in charge of the investigation. Besides, who told you it was not on its way to Santa Barbara. The tape destination might have been to Santa Barbara or LA. We know where it was confiscated but we don't know where it was being sent. the customs took it and sent it to the FBI. Again any entity would have done the same with the tape. I can't but wonder why there is no mention of the person from whom they seized did, assuming there was really one.
VG simply could have produced the tape himself if he wanted to get it to court and say it got damaged. If the goal was, like your theory goes, that Sneddon could write a similar declaration to him as to Dimond and say "we have been investigating the existence of a tape" - well, a statement where Sneddon states that they investigated a tape in October would not have helped VG because he made his slander in January. VG could not say he said what he said in January because Sneddon would investigate a tape in October.
And VG and DD's positions in the case were different. DD, who did not claim any first-hand knowledge about the tape, could simply say that she's been mislead by her source and by the fact that she got word from the DA's office that there is an investigation in the tape. VG however claimed to be a first-hand witness to the tape. In fact, he was the only one who claimed to have ever seen this tape. The whole investigation that took place in January was based on VG's claims. He was asked to produce it, he could not. Then his whole story fell apart and he got exposed as a liar. He said Jeremy's mother, Margaret Maldonado showed him the tape in a hotel room. Margaret was called to testify and said she never met VG. Not only that but there was an investigation into the hotel's records and it turns out that VG has never been in that hotel that he named. He was caught lie after lie. Even Jordan Chandler refuted VG's lies in a declaration he gave in that case. At the end VG did not even show up in court any more but fled the country.