Michael Jackson's former attorney, Mark Geragos, has testified that he put the singer's accuser and his family under surveillance, because he feared that they would sell their story to a tabloid or seek a lawyer.
Geragos, who represented Mr Jackson for a year, resumed his testimony on Friday after it was cut short by Judge Rodney Melville, when it was revealed that the waiver extended to Geragos by his former client Mr Jackson was restricted, and therefore limited cross-examination.
Judge Melville allowed Geragos to continue testifying under the limited waiver, saying: "It puts us in a difficult situation. There doesn't appear to be a really good remedy at this time."
When asked by prosecutors if he ordered a private investigator to follow the singer's accuser and his brother to their junior high school and other locations, Geragos said: "I assumed the children would be in the company of adults."
The lawyer said he did not specify a particular method of surveillance, but had instructed the investigator to find out what the family was doing and who they were meeting.
"The concern was they were either going to meet with a lawyer or sell their story to the tabloids," Geragos said.
