Michael Jackson is charged with regaling the boy with alcohol in 2003 when the boy was 13, molesting him four times and conspiring to abduct and extort the boy and his family. Jackson has pleaded innocent. He has said the teenagers and their mother are lying to gain money from him in a potential civil lawsuit.

The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial Wednesday refused to allow prosecutors to introduce as evidence electronic pornographic material seized from computer hard drives at the singer’s home.

The judge’s ruling was certainly good luck for the Jackson defense. Prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss argued that the material was "powerful corroboration for our victim," who testified that Jackson forced him to view erotic images on the Internet. However, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville agreed with Jackson’s attorneys that the computer material was not a convincing evidence of the testimony.

On Wednesday an investigator for the Sheriff’s Department also confirmed the absence of DNA from Jackson’s accuser, his younger brother or any other member of his family on samples taken from Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

The jurors instead were shown a number of pornographic magazines and pictures taken from Jackson’s home. However, the detective Bonner testified that all of the material was legally purchased and produced mostly for commercial sale.

By the end of the the court session, a member of the defense team, Brian Oxman, was suddenly in need of medical help. The information about his case came only after he was driven to Marian Medical Center. He was said to suffer from pneumonia. Even so, the incident of his argument with Jackson and his team being broadcast on TV reflects the deeper rift in the defense cue.