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September 2005
Michael Jackson
Juror Contests Book Deal
A juror
in Michael Jackson's child abuse trial is
taking legal action to get out of writing
a book on the case.
Ray
Hultman, 62, claims he was talked into
signing a book deal with California
publisher Larry Garrison.
Mr
Hultman wants to end his contract and is
seeking unspecified damages for mental and
emotional stress.
Mr
Jackson was unanimously found not guilty
of 10 abuse charges in June. Mr Hultman
has since said he believed the singer was
not innocent.
Last
month he and fellow juror Eleanor Cook
said in a US TV interview they had agreed
to go along with the other jurors when it
became apparent that they would never
convict the pop star.
In the
lawsuit, Mr Hultman reportedly claims he
was due to co-write a book about the case
entitled The Deliberator with writer Stacy
Brown.
However,
in his legal submission at Santa Maria,
California, Mr Hultman said he was shocked
by reports that his book proposal
contained material plagiarised from a
Vanity Fair magazine article.
He said
this damaged his reputation and the book
deal.
"(Mr
Hultman) was caused to expend substantial
time in writing portions of a book
proposal which turned out to be valueless
give the aforementioned plagiary," his
legal submission stated.
He
confirmed he had been approached by Mr
Garrison to write the book but refused
after reading some excerpts.
"I had
no intention of writing their book nor did
I believe what was in their book," he
said.
Publisher
Larry Garrison declined to comment, saying
he had not reviewed the legal
action.
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