Jackson's ex-wife
Judge: More information needed to rule on motion to strike statements
Thursday, April 28, 2005 Posted: 12:32 PM EDT (1632 GMT)
SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's ex-wife returned to the witness stand Thursday in the pop star's child-molestation trial to testify about the circumstances surrounding an interview she gave boosting the singer's public image.
Jackson's attorneys, however, were attempting to stop Debbie Rowe's testimony and have her previous statements struck.
Court, however, was delayed briefly while prosecutors, defense attorneys and Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville debated a defense motion to strike Rowe's testimony entirely.
"If (the testimony) goes too long, it's hard to undo it," defense attorney Robert Sanger told Melville.
Melville did not rule on the motion, telling Jackson's attorneys it "might be well taken, and it might not ... she barely got started yesterday. I would have to know more."
During brief testimony Wednesday afternoon before court adjourned for the day, Rowe told jurors she was not honest in her comments during a February 2003 interview, including when she praised her former husband as a parent.
However, contradicting earlier statements from the prosecution, Rowe said her answers in the interview, while not truthful, were also not scripted or rehearsed. Roe said she even turned down an offer to see the questions in advance.
At times becoming emotional, Rowe testified she was not promised money or any "quid pro quo" for participating in the interview.
Rowe said that based on a conversation with Jackson, she expected that she was going to get to see him and their two children after the firestorm over the documentary passed.
Despite her help with the interview, the reunion she says she was promised never took place.
Rowe told jurors Wednesday that she last saw her son and daughter -- Prince Michael, 8, and Paris, 7 -- between two-and-a-half and three years ago, and that her attempts through the years to get Jackson to let her spend more time with them were rebuffed.
Rowe, who met Jackson when she worked as a nurse for his dermatologist, also said that during their three years of marriage, "We never shared a home."
A grand jury indicted Jackson, 46, last year on charges of molesting a then-13-year-old boy, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold him and his family captive in 2003.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the charges
[CNN]
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