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Michael Jackson lawyers seek out seized belongings
Three days after Michael Jackson won a full acquittal on sex-abuse charges, a judge on Thursday ordered the pop star?s passport returned and defense attorneys sought the rest of his belongings seized by police in a 2003 raid.
?Mr Jackson wants his stuff?, defense attorney Robert Sanger said after a post-trial hearing at the Santa Maria courthouse where the 46-year-old singer was cleared by an eight-woman, four-man jury on Monday.
Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ordered that Jackson?s passport, which was confiscated by authorities after his 2003 arrest, be returned ? though the judge said it was not immediately clear where it had gone.
Jackson?s lawyers had come to court seeking a return of everything taken from him in the course of the case, but prosecutors said they had to further consider their legal position on that issue and Melville deferred a ruling.
Among the items they are seeking are pictures taken of Jackson?s genitals during a separate 1993 investigation involving a boy who ultimately settled with the singer out of court, but Sanger did not mention those photographs in court and declined to discuss them with reporters.
?Everybody should get all of their property back?, he said. ?Mr Jackson was acquitted, was exonerated and he should be allowed to go on with his life.?
Missing from the hearing was Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon, who has been forced to defend his prosecution in the face of Jackson?s full acquittal on all 10 counts of a grand jury indictment.
Melville also granted a request by news organizations to unseal the dozens of legal motions, and other documents kept secret since the case began with a raid on Jackson?s Neverland Valley Ranch on Nov. 18, 2003.
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