Defense team's Brian Oxman is dismissed from molestation case
APRIL 25--A member of Michael Jackson's legal team who has frequently tangled with chief defense lawyer Thomas Mesereau has been sacked. Brian Oxman, who has long represented other members of the singer's clan, was dumped effective last Friday, according to a "notice of disassociation" filed today by Mesereau in Santa Barbara Superior Court. The bare-bones notice, a copy of which you'll find below, does not offer a reason for Oxman's canning, just the fact that the 53-year-old lawyer was no longer a "counsel of record" in the Jackson molestation case. As seen in the photo at right, following the conclusion of today's court session, an animated Mesereau apparently dressed down Oxman in the parking lot of the Santa Maria courthouse. With the exception of his recent authoring of an April 15 appellate motion, Oxman has had a limited role with the Jackson defense team--and was often relegated to a chair behind the defense table when Mesereau sat with co-counsels Susan Yu and Robert Sanger.
I heard this was coming, actually. From what I remember reading, a fair few people have already been fired from the defense team during this trial.
Interesting. It makes you wonder if they weren't up to scratch, they couldn't let personal feelings get in the way, or whether or not they were working for the other side in secret.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
Oxman fired!!!!! Man, Oxman has been a close family "friend" and legal assistant to the Jackson's for years. I think this Mesereau is getting a little to "ballsy", eventhough things are getting sloppy on the prosecutions side he still needs help from someone like Oxman who has been around MJ for years.
It makes sense Mystic, but it may or may not have been the case. Another posibility is that he could be feeling bitter after being thrown into the sidelines rather than having direct input into the trial. He could be flapping his mouth to the public a bit too much, or anything of the like.
My suggestion about him working with the prosecution was more on strategy, giving them the upperhand in coaching witnesses, rather than any details on Jackson himself, but that's definitely a posibility also.
Though the whole thing is probably just another part of the entire circus that is this trial...
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
gaboman said this in post #7 : Another posibility is that he could be feeling bitter after being thrown into the sidelines rather than having direct input into the trial.
Good point...I wonder if it was over a power struggle of sorts.
Though the whole thing is probably just another part of the entire circus that is this trial...
Very, very true!!
Of course thats just my opinion....I could be wrong. (Dennis Miller)
"You might be the toughest little whacker. . .but in my world, you're about as worrisome as a cloudy day." (Dutch Dooley)
04-26-2005 01:02 AM
