Importantly what happened was Wade did not want to testify. Judge Lance Ito, this is before the OJ case, actually held Wade in contempt as a 12 year old kid. He was going to put him in jail if he didn’t testify. So Michael Jackson’s lawyers met with him. Anthony Pellicano met with him, who we all know about now. They told him exactly what to say. As a 12 year old he already perjured himself because he bought what Michael Jackson told him all along
Where to begin.
1. The grand jury was in March-May 1994. By that time Pellicano no longer worked for MJ
so he couldn't possibly have coached Wade for his grand jury testimony. When he resigned
there wasn't any grand jury empanelled and no grand jury subpoena to Wade or anyone.
Investigator, Lawyer Quit Jackson's Defense Team
December 22, 1993|JIM NEWTON and SONIA NAZARIO | TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Two controversial members of Michael Jackson's defense team--a lawyer who blundered in court and a private investigator whose tactics and public comments drew fire--
have resigned from the case as Jackson continues to battle allegations that he sexually molested a young boy.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-22/local/me-4447_1_michael-jackson
2. If Wade didn't want to testify why not? Does Finaldi say that Wade knew MJ was guilty and didn't want to lie under oath to protect
a molester? Doesn't that prove that Wade was fully aware that what MJ did was wrong, even at age 11
so he cannot claim that before 2012 May he saw nothing wrong with what MJ did. They just can't have it both ways.
3. If Wade didn't want to testify didn't that make Joy Robson suspicious? How did Wade explain that
after he defended MJ to the police and on TV? He just didn't explain it at all? Wouldn't she, who believed MJ was innocent and who wanted to help him and willingly testified, wonder why Wade didn't want to do it? And if a lawyer coached him didn't his mother know about that? Didn't she find THAT suspicious at all? Wouldn't that make her question Mj's innocence? Would she keep defending
MJ after that and let her son sleep in a bed with him? No way. It's just not plausible. Unless they want to say
that Joy Robson was a pimp, which of course they don't say.
4. Of course it wasn't Wade who didn't want to testify.
According to his complaint it was his mother who didn't want him to testify.
Given that Robson says his mother knew nothing and really believed MJ was innocent, and given
the fact that she herself testified to defend him what explanation will they come up with?
She didn't want Wade to testify because she knew he was abused and didn't want him to lie under oath
or didn't want to expose MJ?
She knew MJ was molesting her son and let him sleep with him and kept defending and praising MJ?
That would totally contradict what Wade says, namely that nobody knew he was being abused
except him and MJ.
What a mess.
5. If the compromise was to make Robson testify privately not in front of a full Grand Jury panel that clearly shows Joy Robson
had issues with the circumstances of Wade testimony not with him testifying at all.
6. Wade does not mention any lawyer "telling him exactly what to say" just that MJ selected, hired the lawyer who represented
him in relation to his Grand Jury subpoena.
There is no way to tell a client exactly what to say when the lawyer cannot possibly know what questions the prosecutor would ask.
Most 11 year old would crumble under prolonged questioning unless they tell the truth, which Robson did.
But if that lawyer had tried to coach him that would mean he knew he was abused and wanted him to lie under oath.
How come they don't name him then? If they are mad at the companies for covering up for a child molester
don't they want to expose a lawyer who did the same and coached a minor to commit repeated perjuries?
7. The only person Wade names as a "coach" is MJ and supposedly the coaching took place
right after the Chandler allegations surfaced which would be Aug 23 1993.
Putting aside the absurdity that MJ would coach Robson like that and while being concerned that "they were listening"
the Chandler allegations surfaced on Aug 23 1993. A guilty person would have been concerned what his victims would tell the police after July 9 when MJ first heard the Chandler-Schwarz tape but at least after Aug 4 when Evan Chandler
threatened to ruin him. We know from Culkin that MJ was fully aware that the Chandlers could accuse him and he did call Culkin
before Aug 23 but not to coach him just to tell him that the allegations were not true:
11 Q. In 1993, were you aware of the allegations while they were going on?
13 A. Michael had called me about a month or so, or maybe a couple of weeks before the allegations
15 hit the press. And he let me know that some people
16 were going to be saying something, and they were
17 absolutely untrue, and, “Don’t worry about it. I
18 just need you to be my friend right now.” And I
19 said, “Absolutely.”
That a guilty person who knows about the allegations a month before they make news would wait until then to ensure that his victims tell the right thing to the police is absurd.
8. Only Robson claims that MJ coached him on the phone after the Chandler news broke.
How come he didn't do that with Francia, Safechuck, Culkin, Barnes, Spence if he abused them
wasn't he concerned that they would spill the beans? He was only concerned about Robson?
Francia never said that MJ called him and coached him after Aug 17 or Aug 23 1993 let alone July 9 1993 and Safechuck doesn't claim that either. It just makes no sense because it never happened. MJ probably called Robson the same way he called Culkin.
He didn't coach him in any way.
9. "When finally brought in for questioning"??
Finally? He was interviewed by the police soon after Aug 17 before Aug 27 for sure, according to Wade's complaint.
And he was not brought in for questioning. The police visited Robson's home.
His mother testified that she didn't want the police interview him while she was not present because
she was concerned about possible manipulation.
10 Q. Do you remember the Los Angeles Police Department coming to your apartment?
12 A. Yes.
13 Q. And you didn’t give them a statement either, did you?
15 A. Yes.
16 Q. You gave them a very brief one and then said you had to go somewhere. Isn’t that what happened?
18 A. No, they were trying to interview Wade without me and I told them they were not to do that.
20 Q. Was there some concern on your part that trained law enforcement officers shouldn’t talk to
22 somebody who could possibly be a suspect (sic) of a crime?
24 A. I was concerned of manipulation.
25 Q. That the consequence, law enforcement would manipulate your son?
27 A. Absolutely.
28 Q. You felt that your son could be manipulated easily?
2 A. No, but I wasn’t going to take that chance.
3 He was ten.
4 Q. You weren’t concerned about the fact that the defendant in this case, Mr. Jackson, might
6 manipulate your son?
7 A. No concern at all that he would manipulate my son.
9 Q. But two law enforcement officers, you thought they would?
11 A. Possibly. I don’t know them. I know Mr. Jackson.
