Janet, Jermaine, Jackie, La Toya, Marlon, Rebbie and Randy Jackson are now not allowed to sit in the courtroom during their family’s $40 billion wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live. According to the defense, there is “a risk in allowing any of them in the courtroom” in fear of them influencing the jury. All of Michael’s siblings, except Marlon, are expected to be called as a witness in the trial.
After AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam asked that Randy Jackson be ejected from court yesterday, Katherine’s lawyer argued that as the plantiff in the case she needed one member of her family to aid her in the courtroom. Judge Yvette Palazuelos agreed and will allow one Jackson family member to sit alongside Katherine in the courtroom. All other family members are not allowed to attend the trial.
Yesterday Los Angeles County paramedic Richard Senneff took the stand as the first witness. Senneff was one of the first paramedics to respond to the 911 call the day Michael died.
The patient was very pale and underweight. He looked like someone who was at the end stage of a long disease process,” Senneff said in court. According to the paramedic, Jackson had already been dead for an hour and Conrad Murray was “frantic”.
“To us it didn’t make sense that it had just happened,” he added.
The trial for the wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live is expected to take two to three months.
