Trial of Michael Jackson as well as conspiring to commit extortion and child abduction. Jackson pleaded not guilty to all counts. The trial spanned approximately 18 months, from Jackson's arraignment on January 16, 2004 to June 13, 2005, when the jury delivered a verdict of not guilty on all fourteen charges, which included the above ten plus four lesser misdemeanor counts. In a 2003 Granada Television documentary titled "Living with Michael Jackson", British journalist Martin Bashir interviewed Jackson extensively over a period of 8 months. The film was broadcast in the UK on February 3, 2003, and in the U.S. three days later. In
This Is It (Michael Jackson song) tapes with only Jackson's voice and a piano accompaniment, the song was described as having been a "bare-bone" recording. Jackson subsequently returned the tapes, although Anka insisted that Jackson had made a copy of the recordings of "I Never Heard," and retitled the track with his voice to "This Is It." In 1990, Anka allowed the Puerto Rican R&B recording artist Sa-Fire to record "This Is It,", which she did under the original title "I Never Heard" on her second studio album "I Wasn't Born Yesterday" in 1991. On September 13, 2009, it was reported that a "secret Michael Jackson