i suspect that it was a valid search warrent but a fishing expedition looking for dirt on michael jackson. Original Article Oddities found in '03 search of Neverland John M. Broder New York Times Mar. 27, 2005 12:00 AM SANTA MARIA, Calif. - At Michael Jackson's ranch, Neverland Valley, wine and liquor are hidden in an underground room down a set of stairs concealed by a jukebox on wheels in the large video-game arcade. The main house has several rooms devoted to toys and dolls, including a life-size model of a child in a Boy Scout uniform and models of Batman, Darth Vader and Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. Disney characters and cherubs populate the house and gardens. Jackson kept in his bedroom a lifelike mannequin, which someone had lewdly defaced with a marker, of an 8-year-old girl said to be a relative. Jackson's trial on child-molesting charges has provided jurors and spectators with an intimate look into some of the hidden corners of his 2,800-acre Eden in the Santa Ynez Valley. Over Jackson's bed is a print of The Last Supper. At the foot of his bed is a crib for his youngest child, Prince Michael II, also known as "Blanket," he of the infamous balcony dangling incident. In Jackson's nightstand, police found family photographs and pornographic magazines. Sexually explicit materials were also found in his bathroom, a downstairs closet and in his library, which his lawyer said contained thousands of volumes. Records of visits to pornographic Web sites were recovered from three of the 14 computers seized at the estate. Some of the reading interest in the Jackson household runs to what prosecutors delicately call "teen-themed" material, with titles like Barely Legal or Finally Legal that show female models who appear to be well younger than 18. But the courtroom got a moment of rare comic relief this week when prosecutors projected the cover of one sex magazine titled Over 50. All this material and hundreds of other pieces of evidence were seized on Nov. 18, 2003, when 69 detectives, investigators and sheriff's deputies descended on Neverland to serve an expansive search warrant. Helicopters hovered as the team combed through and videotaped every nook of the estate, staying all day and into the night. Jackson turned himself in two days later and was arrested, fingerprinted and photographed. Since his trial began four weeks ago, Jackson has sat in the courtroom for hours of testimony in evident physical and mental pain as his lavish world of fantasy has been unearthed and publicly cataloged. He has been charged with four counts of child molesting, one count of attempted child molesting, four counts of administering alcohol to a minor to aid in child abuse and a count of conspiracy to kidnap and falsely imprison the family of the boy who raised the accusations. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $3 million bond. Friends, relatives and a bodyguard with a large black umbrella accompany Jackson to court. His parents, Katherine and Joe, attend almost every day. His mother wears a perpetually careworn look; his father wears alligator shoes and a scowl. Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., lead lawyer for Jackson, petitioned the judge to allow jurors to tour Neverland, saying the prosecution had unfairly depicted the ranch as a pedophile's paradise, a candy-coated lure for unsuspecting children. "So much of this case involves what the nature of Neverland is," Mesereau pleaded in court on March 18 outside the presence of the jury. "I don't think there's been an alleged crime scene that more cries out for a jury view than this." He said of the prosecution, "They're trying to portray Neverland as a criminal enterprise or criminal location from A to Z." Mesereau said that Neverland was, in fact, a genius' castle, a wonderful escape from reality and a haven for thousands of ill and underprivileged children over the years. Judge Rodney Melville of Santa Barbara Superior Court denied the request. "We have more than adequate evidence," Melville said.