Judge clears Leno for Jackson jokes

"...Melville said he would consider allowing the pop star to make rebuttals." Aren't "rebuttals" what got him in trouble in the first place? - Wayne

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Judge clears Leno for Jackson jokes

Friday, March 11, 2005 Posted: 3:11 PM EST (2011 GMT)

SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- NBC "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno can lampoon Michael Jackson's legal woes in his nightly monologue, so long as he doesn't talk about his own personal knowledge of the case, the judge in Jackson's child molestation trial said Friday.

Over the objections of Jackson's defense attorneys, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville said that a gag order imposed on Leno and other witnesses "would not stop him from comment or telling jokes."

The judge went on to add, "I'd like him to tell good jokes, rather than bad."

But after the defense complained that Jackson was being put at an unfair disadvantage by the gag order, Melville said he would consider allowing the pop star to make rebuttals.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/11/jackson.trial.leno/

Will he want to rebutt ALL comedians now???

:shrug:

It was rough going there for a while, but now I just know everything's going to be ok!

what a world!

this out! ROFL!

thats what got him in this mess in the first place

I betcha He, Arnold, and W could do some hellacious "towel Snappin' "?:grouphug: