Let me post
Leslie's update in full and then comment & add to it
- A trial date has been appointed for April 19, 2011.
- The witness list has been filed. You haven't seen all these names on one page yet: Melissa Johnson, Melvin Wilson (officer for Johnson), Evan Spiegel (former MJ attorney), Mark Harrison (former MJ attorney), Michael Kane (accountant for the MJ Estate and MJ), Howard Mann, Evvy Tavasci (former MJ assistant), John Branca, Karen Langford (MJ Estate attorney), Fekix Sebacius (Bravado representative), Kristen Fancher (MJ Estate attorney), Brian Oxman, Raymone Bain, Van Alexander, Grace Rwamba, John Grant (domain name specialist), Katherine Jackson, John McClain, Stuart Backermann, Frank DiLeo, etc.
Just by looking at this list we can say that this will a final, big breakdown of all the dirty people in MJ's world.
- Johnson's attorney filed an objection against the MJ Estate's supplemental document, claiming that Johnson is entitled for all the copyrights and running her fake charity because MJ in his life didn't have problems with her work.
- Almost 2.000 items has been filed with the court as evidences.
If this case will really go on trial, that will be a hard but fast win for the MJ Estate.
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Here's the additions
- They expect the trial to last 5 days or so.
- Of course HTWF lawyers is opposing to the supplemental complaint saying that the deadline passed, it's too soon before the trial, the new claims have nothing to do with the original complaint vs vs. They also say that the government registrations do not confuse people and HTWF isn't posted that info on their website.
However it seems like there are supporters of HTWF that has been posting State Secretary registration to say that the current HTWF is legit and the same one as 91 Mj HTWF.
Actually no. Thanks to marc_vivien we have seen the Estate / plaintiff witness list
It has
- Melissa Johnson and Mel Wilson from HTWF - as to examine HTWF actions
- Evan Spiegel and Mark Harrison - former attorneys for MJ
- Evvy Tavasci - former assistant to MJ
- John Branca - for the estate
- Howard Mann - as to examine the business deal between him and HTWF
- Michael Kane - accountant for the estate
- Karen Langford - paralegal at Branca's law firm
- Felix Sebacious - representative of Bravado
- Kristen Fancher - trademark attorney.
When we look to the HTWF (defendants) witness list we see
- again Melissa Johnson and Mel Wilson - to testify about HTWF's actions
- again Howard Mann
- They say 5 people will provide testimonies about Johnson's relationship/communication with Michael and these 5 people look like Brian Oxman, Raymone Bain, Van Alexandar, Grace Rwaramba and Stu Backerman
- John Branca and John McClain about their policies and press releases they made about HTWF
- Frank Dileo due to his statement in support of the estate
- Evan Spiegel and Todd Rubenstein - as they were declarant in the Estate complaint
- Trent Jackson - as to explain the relationship between Jackson's and HTWF
- Katherine Jackson - as HTWF supporter and being on board of directors
- John Roberts - the claimant for Heal the World Inc.
- John Grant - payment of domain name collection
- Sergio Guimond - planned a tribute concert for MJ , estate interfered and HTWF suffered loss
- Tania Lundeen - Beanie Baby
- Richard Herbert
Evidence exhibits for the estate includes
- HTWF documents such as board of director meeting notes, tax documents, their accounting (borrowings etc)
- HTWF filings to government agencies
- Emails from Melissa Johnson to a lot of different people including Evan Spiegel, Tom Meserau, Alvin Malnik, Raymone Bain, Rabbi Boteach
- Letters to/from Evvy Tavasci
- letters / packages sent to MJ from Johnson and while posing as Evvy
- emails from several people to Melissa Johnson (after MJ's death) expressing their wish to donate to MJ's HTWF or do events to honor MJ and donate
- emails between Johnson and several parties for sale of items
- screenshots of HTWF website and posts on their forums including Melissa Johnson posts
- wikipedia edits, wikipedia sending an email to Johnson and her response to wikipedia
- A lot of trademark registrations done both by MJ's representatives and by Melissa Johnson
- Documents about the actual 1991 MJ HTWF
- Jackson's related exhibits such as Jackson's declaration about HTWF, youth board advisors forms signed by Prince, Paris and Blanket.
- member posts form official MJ.com forum, Kopboard, MJFC and
MJJC
Defendants evidence exhibits include
- Letter from Oxman and a lot o stuff to show his relationship to MJ.
- news/info about estate and their business relationship to Bravado and other companies
- negative stuff about Branca - that he was fired in 2003, Joe's opposition to him as an executor etc.
- documents about Brian Wolf , Legrand , Backerman, Raymone Bain
- news stories about MJ being mismanaged etc
- communications with Backerman, Bain, Boteach, Malnik, Tavasci, Spiegel, Van Alexander, etc.
- a lot of information about who registered what before/ after MJ's death
Estate is objecting to most of these on the grounds that they aren't relevant, they can bring prejudice, confusion and waste of time, lack of personal knowledge and hearsay.
