Mourad Mesellaty

 

#OnThisDay May 19, 2005. #MichaelJackson attended CNN talk show host Larry King may be among those called to testify at Santa Maria Courthouse in California for the 56th day of the trial. Larry King will offer for the defense is a conversation that he had with attorney Larry Feldman. Larry Feldman is the attorney that represented the 1993 victim against Michael Jackson and consulted with the current alleged victims -- alleged victim in '93, and the current alleged victim here in this case. And according to the defense, King talking with Feldman at a deli in Hollywood came to the conclusion that Feldman thought that the woman, the mother in this case, was "crazy."

Before he is able to testify in front of the jury, however, the judge wants to hammer out exactly what was said and exactly what will be said in front of this jury. This is a classic hearsay case, Larry King talking about what Larry Feldman said at a deli.

The reason it is allowed in is for impeachment, because attorney Larry Feldman earlier on the stand said that anybody who would get up on the stand here and say that he talked about this victim's -- this alleged victim's family would be "a liar." So for that reason, it's sort of an open door for the defense to bring Larry King on.

It's unclear how much of his story he'll be able to recount to this jury on behalf of the defense for being a defense witness. That will be hammered out before he takes the stand. He is expected to take the stand at some point during the morning session here.

The other big headline out of the trial is that the defense has informed the judge that they have significantly pared down their witness list, and they believe that the defense case will be concluded sooner than later. The judge said, "We have weeks to go," and the defense said, "Well, your honor, we'd like to correct you. It may not be weeks. We have cut a lot of our potential witnesses."

So the judge didn't argue with that. This has drawn on for quite a while. And he said that he would be very pleased if they were going to wrap up sooner than later. And that does seem to be the case.