LOS ANGELES (AP) – A California appellate court has heard arguments on behalf of Michael Jackson’s mother for a new trial in her lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live LLC.
Attorneys for Katherine Jackson told a three justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles that a new trial should be ordered because jurors who decided a nearly six-month trial in AEG’s favour last year were given an improper verdict form.
Katherine Jackson sued AEG, the promoters of her son’s ill-fated This Is It comeback concerts, claiming they were responsible for her son’s 2009 death because they hired the doctor who administered a fatal dose of anaesthetic.
AEG’s lawyers however argue that the Jackson family matriarch’s attorneys sought the exact question jurors used to decide the case in AEG’s favour.
