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Jackson
is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 2003, giving
him alcohol and conspiring to hold the accuser's family
captive to get them to rebut a documentary in which
the boy appeared and Jackson said he let children sleep
in his bed in a platonic way.
Prosecutor
Ron Zonen said one book was about 90 percent pictures
of nude boys and the other about 10 percent. One was
titled ``Boys Will Be Boys.''
Defense
attorney Robert Sanger called the books irrelevant to
the current case and said they would unfairly prejudice
the jury.
``It's
just plain stale to bring in something from that far
back,'' Sanger said.
Sanger
said prosecutors have pored through Jackson's library
of thousands of volumes and tried to present jurors
``any book that might have a page or two or five or
10 of people who are not fully clothed.''
Sanger
also noted that one of the books contained an inscription
written by Jackson in which he noted the happy expressions
on the faces of the boys.
``This
is the life I never had. This is the life I want for
my children,'' the inscription said.
The
other book included an inscription from a fan: ``XXXOOO,
Rhonda.''
Thursday's
testimony brought a setback for prosecutors when Jackson's
ex-wife Deborah Rowe, the mother of two his children,
testified that the singer was an easily manipulated
victim of ``opportunistic vultures'' in his inner circle
who wanted to make millions from his troubles.
Rowe
said she believed a group of men named as Jackson's
unindicted co-conspirators were actually conspiring
against Jackson.
Prosecutors
called Rowe to support their contention that Jackson's
alleged co-conspirators scripted a videotaped interview
in which she defended Jackson, just as they had allegedly
scripted an interview in which the family rebutted the
``Living With Michael Jackson'' documentary.
But
when Rowe took the stand Wednesday and Thursday, she
said there was no script and that she never looked at
a list of questions in advance because she wanted her
words to be spontaneous.
Asked
by Zonen if she knew what she was supposed to say on
camera about Jackson, she used such terms as ``a wonderful
person,'' ``a great father,'' and ``generous and caring.''
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AP
Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this
report.
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