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
Trial of Michael Jackson After the trial, Michael Jackson moved to Bahrain, and later to Ireland. The Neverland Ranch, which he said had been despoiled by law enforcement searches, was closed. Jackson returned to Southern California in 2009 where he died. In May 2013, choreographer Wade Robson, who had testified in the trial in defense of Jackson, said in an interview with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer that from the age of seven to around 14 Jackson 'performed sexual acts on me and forced me to perform sexual acts on him.' Recent tabloid journalism claimed that during Jackson's trial, Blanca Francia, a former housekeeper