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Missing Girl`s Grandfather Has Arrest Record; Martha Stewart Released From Prison

Aired March 04, 2005 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, disturbing developments in the case of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford out of Florida. Jessie disappeared from her own bedroom last week.
After thousands of man-hours devoted to the search, hundreds of volunteers, tonight we have learned that Jessie`s grandfather, who lived in the home, Archie Lunsford, allegedly has a rap sheet dating back 50 years, including arrests for attempted rape, assault, battery and attempted kidnapping.

Tonight, the reward for little Jessie has risen to $115,000.

And also in the news, domestic icon Martha Stewart released from Alderson`s Women`s Jail in the wee hours of the morning. She was officially released at 12:01 a.m. Around 12:45 a.m., she jetted off to her home in Bedford, New York, for house arrest.

We also take you live to California at the end of week one in the Michael Jackson sex case.

Good evening everybody. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us this Friday night.

Well, week one in the Jackson trial. Today the alleged child victim`s own sister broke down on the stand.

After five months behind bars, Martha Stewart comes home, for at least five months anyway. She will be electronically monitored with an ankle bracelet. Stewart will be allowed to go to work 48 hours a week.

But first tonight, Jessie Lunsford: Her grandfather now under new scrutiny. Florida authorities report Archie Lunsford has a criminal record.

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SHERIFF JEFF DAWSY, CITRUS COUNTY POLICE DEPT.: He was arrested in `54 in Indianapolis by the police department on a charge of pre-kidnapping. He`s pretty well answered that to us. There was no prosecution. He says it was his child. The problem is, I don`t have a way to validate that. I have asked Indianapolis to go in and look at the charges.

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GRACE: You know, well, I`m a little concerned about the alleged attempted rape arrest, as well.

With us tonight, Marc Klaas from San Francisco and Ed Smart from Salt Lake City, both friends and colleagues. Both of their daughters were kidnapped. Ed`s daughter, Elizabeth Smart, came home. Marc`s daughter, Polly, did not.

Also with us tonight, New York psychologist Caryn Stark.

Welcome everybody.

First to you, Marc Klaas, what is your thought on the investigation with the new development?

MARC KLAAS, VICTIMS` RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Well, there`s a lot of different ways one can go with this. But certainly, with the grandfather, ultimately -- I guess having admitted that he had this criminal past, he`s going to have to have a "Come to Jesus" moment with the police. Because obviously everyone who`s watching your show or has any knowledge of this will be looking straight at him and wondering what he did to that little girl.

He`s going to have to provide the name of the rape victim that never showed up for court so that the police can look into that. He`s going to have to be able to account totally and completely for his time. He`s going to have to take any kind of stress test or polygraphs that law enforcement wants to impose upon him and do whatever he can to clear himself.

If he can clear himself, I think that there`s some real possibilities we won`t see this child alive again.

GRACE: Ed Smart, do we have any idea how old Archie Lunsford is?

ED SMART, FATHER OF ELIZABETH SMART: Well, I don`t know how old he is.

GRACE: 60s, 70s?

SMART: I think he`s in his 60s, early 70s.

GRACE: So, let me ask you this, Caryn Stark, before I go back to Ed Smart, how does that factor into -- he has not been named a suspect. These arrests were many, many years ago. But how does his age play in? I mean, are men still sex predators when they`re up in their 60s and 70s?

CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: Nancy, I hate to say this, but they are always sex predators. It just doesn`t go away. Once you`re a sex predator, you are a sex predator, and it stays with you.

GRACE: You`re kidding?

STARK: No, I`m absolutely saying...

GRACE: You mean at age 70 they`re not out of commission?

STARK: Well, no. Men aren`t even sexually out of commission. And these people just don`t get rehabilitated. So...

GRACE: And, again, I want to make clear, Ed, just because this guy has arrests back 30, 40, 50 years ago does not in any way make him a suspect. He`s answered police questions. This is what`s troubling me, Ed, and it`s been troubling me for about three days now. I know the police have now limited their search to around a 3/4-mile radius around the home. What does that say to you, Ed?

SMART: Well, you know, they usually say that five miles is the parameter that you`ll find the child. And I think that you can`t just limit yourself. I mean, Elizabeth was within five miles of our home during that abduction. And we couldn`t find her. But she was out there.

And I don`t think that they can give up. They`ve got to keep searching. I mean, certainly, this grandfather has to be looked at. There`s no question about that. But on the other hand, they need to find it, clear him, get him out of the way and move forward.

GRACE: Well, that`s what you and Marc did. Of course, fathers, grandfathers, men that live in the house, they`re the first suspects. You have got to go ahead, answer questions, come clean, take a polygraph, do whatever, give your DNA so they can move on to find the real suspect. Both of you gentleman unfortunately lived through police suspicion and survived.

Marc Klaas, how does the grandfather -- I kept hearing last week he`s going to take a polygraph, he`s going to take a polygraph. Did he take it?

KLAAS: Well, I`ve been told by one source he did take it and that he did pass. But I haven`t had that or seen that verified.

But you know, it gets even worse, Nancy. The St. Petersburg Times just a few minutes ago got out the story that Mark Lunsford has a criminal record in North Carolina, as well. It`s just getting worse and worse for this family. And if I could very quickly -- I have no idea why they have stopped searching for this little girl.

GRACE: Me either.

KLAAS: I agree with Ed. They have to get out there, and they have to conduct a very comprehensive search. Two days ago, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announced that they had 20 people on the scene. And only today they have announced that they have left the scene. Why doesn`t somebody go in there...

GRACE: Wait, wait, wait. Marc? Marc?

KLAAS: Yes?

GRACE: Are you saying that possibly they know something we don`t know? Why would they cut down the number of searchers?

KLAAS: They don`t know where Jessica is. We all seem to be losing sight of the fact that there`s a little girl out there, that the little girl is missing, that nothing else should really matter, yet they have packed up their bags and they have left, twenty people from the national center. Why is that happening?

GRACE: Why is that?

KLAAS: I`ll tell you, the one thing that makes a little bit of sense to me is this is all coming out of the sheriff`s pocket. I mean, this is something that he has to pay for. He may not have the budget for it. But certainly a well-organized volunteer search that utilizes professional leadership and the assistance of the community could accomplish huge things without costing the sheriff anything.

GRACE: Let me ask you, Ed Smart, can you think of any reason they would scale back?

SMART: You know, they may feel that they have searched and searched. But, you know, you can look, and look, and look, and that person is still there right underneath your nose, and you`re not finding it.

And I`ve had a chance to visit with Florida law enforcement. They have created something similar to what the national center has and have organized regional groups of law enforcement that deal with missing children. And so I feel like they probably have a good grasp on it.

The thing that`s disturbing to me is that, you know, right now, we are hearing that there might be a question about a grandfather, might be a question about Mark, but, you know, initially, it was said that law enforcement cleared everyone...

GRACE: That`s right.

SMART: ... that the family was out of the picture. And that`s the issue that I don`t get is, if there is an issue there, you know, why wasn`t it addressed initially? If it isn`t an issue, for heaven`s sake, come out and tell us that it`s not an issue because people are out there working, and searching, and putting in time. And that little girl needs to be found. And if they have something that can help, I would think that they would come forward.

GRACE: Marc Klaas, you mentioned the father has an arrest. What is it for?

KLAAS: It was an assault upon a woman, I believe. That was something that somebody told me just a few minutes ago.

You know, Ed`s absolutely right. You know, he`s right about the search teams. And, look, the first three days of this response was textbook. It has to be the template for all responses that follow. But they have faltered time and time again after that, and it seems to me that the entire thing is in disarray now, even with this latest revelation of the sheriff having to call a hastily conferred press conference to let the public know that, in fact, grandpa isn`t exactly the model citizen he had been portrayed as.

GRACE: Marc Klaas and Ed Smart, a last question before we go to break. As you know, Jessica Lunsford, still missing tonight. We have not given up. We`re still publicizing her photo, all of her information.

Before we go to break, Ed, at this juncture, when Elizabeth went missing, what were you going through?

SMART: Well, you know, the family had not been cleared at a week`s time. Lois and I were up wandering the halls wondering what possibly Mary Catherine could have seen.

You know, we couldn`t sleep. I mean, we were barely functioning. Marc had come out and told us what he thought we should do, and we appreciated that. And we felt that, you know, we`ve got to keep going. Elizabeth`s going to walk back into our lives. And, you know, those first couple of weeks we kept on expecting her...

GRACE: Yes.

SMART: ... to be found.

GRACE: I remember.

SMART: And I just think that the Lunsfords have to keep moving forward and cooperating fully with law enforcement. You know, our family came up at their own risk and said everything that they needed to say...

GRACE: I remember.

SMART: ... that would possibly try to clear them. And, you know, I think that law enforcement just needs to get that cleared.

GRACE: And let me go to you, Marc. At this time when Polly went missing, everyone, Polly never came home. Polly was murdered.

KLAAS: Yes.

GRACE: What were you going through at this juncture?

KLAAS: At this point in the investigation, a week after it had started, I thought that everything was falling apart. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. I was an emotional and psychological mess.

It was an FBI agent that literally picked me up off the ground, slapped me around, told me I had to get my act together, I had to go out there everyday and do something to bring my daughter back. And it gave me a new life. And, in fact, was one of the great epiphanies of my life.

GRACE: Marc Klaas, Ed Smart, friends and colleagues, thanks for your words tonight as our thoughts and our prayers continue to go out in the hope that Jessica will come home safely. Stay with us.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAWSY: And last but not least, in 1959, Titusville, the sheriff`s office arrested Lunsford on charges of attempted rape. And I know that sends everybody signals up high. Again, apparently the adjudication was withheld. This is, again, for Archie. It was a female. It was an adult. It never went to trial.

And I wish I had some concrete information. We have been asking to research this information for us and get it to me. But, again, I do not have that information concrete so I can work out of specifics.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MARTHA STEWART, JUST RELEASED FROM PRISON: The past two years and seven months, and it has been that long, have been a time of immense difficulty, immense sacrifice, and immense agony, not only for me, but for my loved ones, my daughter, Alexis, the rest of my family, my friends, my colleagues, and all our business partners.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Martha Stewart is back at home after doing jail time in a West Virginia prison. She now serves home detention, that portion of her sentence, at Bedford, New York, in her mansion.

Tonight, from "New York" magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis -- I think. Correct me if I`m wrong. In Atlanta, defense attorney Chris Pixley. From L.A., defense lawyer David Wohl, and former Alderson inmate, Jean Marlowe. Also with us here in the studio, psychologist Caryn Stark.

But first to CNN`s Mary Snow who is outside Stewart`s home. Hey, that`s a tough assignment right outside of a fancy mansion. I want your job.

What`s the latest, Mary?

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I`ll tell you, Nancy, quiet now. And it really has been a whirlwind day for Martha Stewart and for a lot of the media obviously following her. But some private moments tonight. The shades in her home have been drawn. This, after a very public day, starting with her exit from Greenbrier Airport last night.

Shortly after midnight, she was released. Her plane took off about 1 o`clock, and her company really helping to orchestrate that shot for the cameras, catching her smiling, waving, looking very relaxed and happy, boarding that chartered plane.

And then she got here to Bedford about 2:30 in the morning. We saw her several times throughout the day at her estate, 153-acre estate, I might add. And, you know, she`s not just stepped back in the spotlight, but really embraced it.

She was seen walking around the grounds. She was petting her horse. She was walking with her dogs. She also was seen with her daughter, Alexis, who went to Alderson to pick her up from prison.

And she spoke with the media a couple of times, joking with them. She offered them coffee in the morning, then at one point sent hot chocolate out to them, and also kind of was joking a little bit during the day and told a little bit of a story that kind of summed up the day.

When she came out with lemons, obviously, the thinking is, you know, she is always been able to make lemonade out of lemons.

GRACE: I understand she actually juggled some of the lemons.

SNOW: She did.

GRACE: She`s got a lot of hidden talents. Mary Snow is with us.

I want to go to Jean Marlowe. Jean did time in Alderson Ladies` Prison.

Jean, why did you go to Alderson?

JEAN MARLOWE, FORMER INMATE AT ALDERSON: Well, Nancy, I received a package of medical marijuana from a farm in Switzerland. They were trying to help me so I wouldn`t get my medicine from out of truck tires or out of cattle trailers. They were trying to get me clean organic medicine and they sent it to me in the mail.

GRACE: So, marijuana. So, marijuana?

MARLOWE: Yes.

GRACE: Tell me about Alderson. What is it like behind bars at Alderson?

MARLOWE: It`s a very tough situation. There`s total sleep deprivation. You have to be at certain places exactly like they say. You`re called with a cow bell, that they ring it. There`s never any privacy. There`s...

GRACE: Called with a cow bell? I do not want to wake up to a cow bell. I`ve heard a cow bell. OK, go ahead.

MARLOWE: I used to like brass bells, Nancy, but...

GRACE: Not anymore.

MARLOWE: ... after they sent -- not anymore. I can`t stand them.

(LAUGHTER)

MARLOWE: The sleeping situation is really bad. The cots are old. They`re bad. They`re wore out. It`s like sleeping on a hammock more than so than a bed. There`s no privacy. The lights are always on. It`s always a racket. It`s a tough situation, but she`ll come through it. I think she`s going to be fine.

GRACE: And let`s get another shot, Elizabeth, of where Mary Snow is.

Mary, are you outside Martha`s crib? Can we see it? What is it like?

SNOW: You can`t see it from here. Nancy, just to give you a little perspective, her estate is actually bigger than the grounds at Alderson where she served time. Alderson is like 95 acres. Hers is a 153.

This is a very posh area. And, you know, it`s farmland. There are a lot of horses here, several buildings on the estate. She has a great house there. And it`s really quite beautiful.

GRACE: You know what? If I were her probation officer, I would come by every Friday night around dinner time to do a spot check.

Quick break. We`ll be right back with more on Martha.

But as we go to break, "Trial Tracking" tonight. We are in a verdict watch on the Robert Blake murder trial. The jury sent home for the weekend. They will come back on Monday.

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GERALD SCHWARTZBACH, ROBERT BLAKE`S DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Probably guilty is not enough. Strong suspicion is not enough. All I ask you to do is do justice. And I will respectfully submit to you, that if you do justice, you will end this nightmare for Mr. Blake. And you will give him back his life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Gee, didn`t mention anything about the nightmare Bonny Bakley suffered dying in the middle of the road.

Reminder: We bring you live coverage of the Blake case, Monday, 3:00 to 5:00 Eastern on Court TV`s "Closing Arguments." Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: Martha Stewart out of jail. Well, I know one person`s happy, that horse right there. She`s been petting the horses and her dogs and walking around her estate in New York.

Welcome home, Martha.

Let`s go straight out to "New York" magazine`s Vanessa Grigoriadis.

I worked on it during the break, Vanessa.

VANESSA GRIGORIADIS, "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE: Very good.

GRACE: You know, a lot of people, and they must be saying this tongue-in-cheek, because these people obviously have not been behind bars before -- have you ever been to a jail, Vanessa?

GRIGORIADIS: I have visited people in jail.

GRACE: They`re not nice. They`re not nice at all. A lot of people are saying tonight, going to jail was a good career move for Martha Stewart. I think she might disagree.

GRIGORIADIS: Well, she certainly seems to now be happy that she is out. I think that it was a corporate move. I don`t think that it was a personal decision. But, you know, it was something that she had to do to save her company. And by all accounts it seems to have worked.

GRACE: I think you are right about that. What does she need to do to re-establish the health of the company?

GRIGORIADIS: Well, I mean, as far as her image is concerned, I don`t think she has to do anything.

GRACE: I think you`re right.

GRIGORIADIS: She went to jail and that`s enough.

GRACE: I think you are right. And Vanessa, also, apparently, she is going to write a book. I saw her last night. I was on live TV in for Larry King. I saw her carrying boxes of documents into the plane. And I guarantee you that`s the next best-seller. And I will definitely buy it.

So, a book, a made-for-TV series? What does she got in the hopper?

GRIGORIADIS: Well, I mean, obviously, she has her reality show. I mean, who knows exactly what form this book will take?

But she has got, you know, both a morning show and a reality show. I mean, the reality show`s going to make her an even bigger household name, if that`s possible. Now, what that actually means for her company`s revenue is certainly, you know, still a question. I mean, I don`t think there`s anybody out there who doesn`t know who Martha Stewart is at this point.

GRACE: True. True. True.

GRIGORIADIS: So who are the additional customers for her products? I don`t know if they exist.

GRACE: Good point.

You know, Jean Marlowe, we are talking about her beautiful estate now. She`s going to be on house arrest. Let`s go back to Alderson just a moment. Before everybody starts makes light of her doing time, what kind of offenders are in Alderson?

MARLOWE: The majority of them, Nancy, are drug offenders. The majority of them there are nonviolent. They`re there for conspiracy. A few white collar crime, you know, but most of it is drug charges. The majority of them are drug charges.

GRACE: Do you think that she was well-liked in prison?

MARLOWE: From what I hear from the girls in there, they liked her. She seemed to get along pretty good. Of course, she was withdrawn at times, but everybody who goes to prison, every woman -- that`s the only privacy you have is what`s inside. So you have to be withdrawn to a certain extent to just to survive with your sensibilities intact.

GRACE: Jean...

MARLOWE: You have to keep something to yourself.

GRACE: Jean, I have only got a couple of moments left, but what is a typical day like at Alderson?

MARLOWE: Well, you wake up in the morning to the sound of rackets, and lockers slamming, and people getting ready for work. And you`re told to hurry, hurry, hurry while you`re in the bathroom because the ladies who are trying to do the maintenance want you to get out of there so that they can get it cleaned up and get their day started, get on their work.

And you have to hurry. You`re having to stand in line to get a chance to use the toilet or use a sink or get to the shower. You hurry there. You have to go eat, be at work.

Then you`re being at count where you have to be. If you have to go to the doctor or anything, then you stand -- it`s long, long times standing in line.

GRACE: Jean...

MARLOWE: Everything is hurrying and standing in lines.

GRACE: Jean, we have to go to break. I want to thank all of you ladies for being with us tonight regarding Martha Stewart. We`ll be right back. Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I`m Sophia Choi. Let`s get to your "Headline Prime Newsbreak."

An Italian journalist was shot and wounded by U.S. soldiers just moments after being freed from her insurgent captors. Soldiers fired on her car at a Baghdad checkpoint. A man that helped negotiate her release was killed in that gunfire. President Bush has promised Italy`s prime minister that there will be a investigation.

Calling it an attack on the judicial system, the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for leads in the investigation of the murders of a federal judge`s husband and mother. The investigators have not identified any suspect and no arrests have been made. Chicago Judge Joan Lefkow says she won`t let the killings keep her from returning to the bench.

Nearly three times as many people are seeking treatment for marijuana use than were doing so in the previous decade. The White House`s Office of National Drug Control Policy says the change reflects an increase in marijuana use and the drug`s rising potency.

That`s the news for now. I`m Sophia Choi. Now back to NANCY GRACE.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MICHAEL JACKSON, SINGER: We have guest rooms, but whenever kids come here, they always want to stay with me. They never want to stay in the guest -- and I have never invited them in my room. They always just want to stay. They say, "Can I stay with you tonight?" I go, "If it`s OK with your parents, yes, you can."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: The jury heard that clip this week from the ABC version of that BBC documentary. Remember the one by Martin Bashir.

Well, today, in the Jackson case, the boy`s sister broke down in tears on the stand, claiming her brother changed after having been with Jackson. "Celebrity Justice" correspondent Jane Velez-Mitchell has the lowdown.

Hi, friend. What`s the latest?

JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": Oh, the latest, what a dramatic day in court.

Yes, the sister broke down and cried, and said her brother had changed and he didn`t want to be kissed or hugged by her. And it really hurt her because she`s the older sister and that he had really become different after leaving Neverland.

The other bombshell, of course, this amazing rebuttal video that was played in court. Now, this is the video done by Michael Jackson`s people a couple of weeks after the Bashir documentary aired of this family, the family now accusing Michael Jackson of terrible crimes.

The prosecution says this video was scripted and rehearsed, they were told what to say, but I have to tell you, watching it, it doesn`t look like they were told what to say. They are gushing. They are falling over each other.

They are interrupting each other for the privilege of saying how much they love Michael Jackson, what an ideal father figure he is, how he spread his wings and took them underneath it, how God worked through Michael to breathe life into this boy. It is absolutely astounding, and they go on like this for more than an hour. And it was really a shocker.

I mean, this was played by the prosecution undoubtedly as a pre- emptive strike. They know that it`s going to be played by the defense. They figure, "Let`s get it over with." But we were reeling after more than an hour of this.

GRACE: Do you think, Jane, there is a script that goes with that? Do you think the mother and the boys were given any type of guidance, script, direction, as to what to say?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: There is a voice off camera saying, "OK, we`d like you to talk about this. We`d like you to talk about Michael and his children." But it`s not, "Tell them this." It is not, "Do this, do that."

And then, there are moments during outtakes where the mother at one point says, "Hey, get a shot of me and my son hands, holding hands, the way they did in the Bashir documentary. Oh, they made a beautiful innocent thing. They spun it out of control. Get a shot of our hands holding hands because it`s so innocent."

We were shocked. We were sitting there in the courtroom when the lights went on for the break. Everybody was sort of looking around like, "Wow." How is this going to affect the conspiracy case? This was at the time they were supposed to be held hostage, forced against their will, coerced into doing this video. And even in the outtakes, they seem happy. They seem quite elated.

GRACE: Caryn Stark, what do you make of it?

STARK: Well, it`s the joking around and the fact that they were so light-hearted, Nancy, that leaves me suspect. That doesn`t sound like a captive. If you`re captive, at least you would have a glum, a more sober exterior. And here they are, she`s laughing. She`s saying, you know, "Zoom in on us, just like you did in the Bashir tape." I think that that`s a problem.

GRACE: You know what...

STARK: What, Nancy?

GRACE: ... you just made me think of? You made me think of a six- year-old little girl whose case I prosecuted once. Her father had been having full blown sex with her since about age three.

And just before his indictment, they had home video of them having a birthday party. And everybody was so happy until the next week when I told the mother her daughter didn`t have a hymen. And she was like, "What? What?"

Yes, so I`m sorry. I`m not going into it like the fish on a hook. But I guess you are, Chris Pixley.

CHRIS PIXLEY, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know, Nancy, obviously, you`ve got to take this as a, you know, strike against the prosecution. Now, I would agree with Jane. They`re obviously using it now to try to take the wind out of the defense sails and not allow the defense to destroy their case by putting it on in their own case. But, you know, there`s nothing about this tape that`s positive for the prosecution. And most importantly...

GRACE: No, there`s not. I have got to agree with you, Chris. I have to agree with you. This hurts.

PIXLEY: And, Nancy, you know, when the mother is making these statements, this isn`t a child being influenced by, you know, the powerful father figure. This is the mother. She`s an adult. She knows better.

GRACE: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Just the other night, you told me I can`t believe anything this mother says. She`ll say whatever suits her, whatever benefits her at that moment. But now you want me to believe this video because it helps you.

PIXLEY: Well, I don`t know that I said that.

GRACE: Yes, you did.

PIXLEY: We`ll have to roll the tape. I don`t think I suggested...

GRACE: Elizabeth, roll that beautiful bean footage.

PIXLEY: I don`t think I suggested ever that she can`t be believed. What I did suggest is that her credibility is going to be called into question...

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GRACE: You have been hammering that mother from day zero.

Hold on. I`m going to get your partner in crime, David Wohl, to jump in.

Jump in, David Wohl. And know you and Pixley are singing the same verse, same as the first.

DAVID WOHL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I`m actually not, Nancy. And I`ll tell you why. What was the motivation for making this video to begin with? It`s because Jackson saw the Martin Bashir video and he flipped out. He freaked out. He knew he had to make something that would make him look good, period.

Now, the mother apparently was given a ton of dough by Jackson to go on this shopping spree. They were also apparently threatened. There`s been no contradiction to that, yet.

GRACE: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, David.

Elizabeth, every time you play that footage of the baby dangling, it gives me angina. You must stop, Elizabeth. I always think the baby`s going to fall.

OK, go ahead, David.

WOHL: But, Nancy, I think there was incredible motivation to make this to begin with. And that in and of itself impugns the credibility of this particular video. So I think that ends up in the long run being a problem for Jackson.

GRACE: What about it, Jane?

PIXLEY: Were it not for the fact...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, this happened...

GRACE: Go ahead, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: ... on the 19th. This happened on February 19th, a couple of weeks after the Bashir documentary aired. This is supposedly during the time of this conspiracy where they`re being held against their will.

One of the things that Mesereau was also able to establish on cross- examination is that this girl and her family, they went to the Department of Children and Family Services, or at least social workers from that department interviewed them at the mother`s boyfriend`s house.

They went to a shopping mall. They went to a federal building to get their passports. They went all around. Did they ever at any time say, "Hey, help us, we`re being held hostage, we`re being held against our will"? They never did that once apparently.

GRACE: Jane, Jane, Jane, I get it. And I agree. It looks bad for the prosecution.

But from where I`m coming from -- I`m going to throw this one to you, Chris -- after prosecuting so many child molestations, most kids never, ever, ever, ever tell. They put up with it. They think it`s normal. They don`t even understand it`s wrong.

So, especially with that example I just told Caryn Stark about, where I prosecuted a child molestation, the girl was six-years-old, full blown sex with her father for years. And then just before the indictment on child molestation, they`re having this beautiful birthday celebration for the little girl. Everybody`s happy. They`re taking pictures. The kid doesn`t even have a hymen, Chris. So I`m not surprised that the boy didn`t say anything.

PIXLEY: But, Nancy, who are the experts in determining child molestation if anyone is? It`s the Department of Child and Family Services. They did the investigation. They didn`t say that they had insufficient evidence. They said there is absolutely no basis for a claim of molestation against Michael Jackson.

Now, because of that, the Santa Barbara D.A. has now had to say, "OK, well it only happened after the Bashir documentary, while Michael Jackson`s under investigation by the LAPD and the DCFS. That just doesn`t happen.

They are the experts. And if the Santa Barbara D.A. thinks that he is more expert than they are, you have to ask yourself why, only 60 days before the trial, he`s still out there asking for people who have something against Michael Jackson, who have a story about Michael Jackson and molestation, to come forward.

If Michael Jackson was molesting children at the Neverland ranch, he`s had them there for nearly 20 years, there wouldn`t be one accuser. There would be 2000.

GRACE: Hey, hey, hey, I asked you for an answer. I asked you for an answer not the closing argument. But that was a beautiful summation, Chris Pixley.

Very quickly, Jane Velez, before Pixley cranks back his closing statement again, what`s going to happen next?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, she remains on the stand. And I think here`s where Mesereau could be going overboard. He has kept her on the stand for hours now. And a lot of people really feel sorry for this girl. He`s gotten her to say that, yes, she fibs on occasion and things of that nature.

She`s an 18-year-old who sounds like a 15-year-old. She is being grilled now for hours. And I think that there`s a lot of people -- my heart goes out to her. She didn`t molest anybody. She`s not a criminal.

And my feeling is she`s a tragic figure that`s trapped in this very adult world. I don`t know who`s done what to her, but something`s been done to her. And my heart goes out to her as a human being.

GRACE: Hey, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes?

GRACE: Do you find her believable?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I found her believable yesterday. Today I don`t find her as believable because she seems to be repeating answers. In other words, when she was talking to prosecutors, she was offering information. But then when questions came up that she didn`t want to answer, she would say, almost over and over again, "I don`t remember. It happened a long time ago. I was very young."

And finally, Mesereau said, "Did someone tell you to say that every time you have a question you don`t want to answer, that rote answer, that stock answer?" And she said, "No." But it did stick into everyone`s mind the possibility that somebody had told her to say that because she was saying it every time she didn`t want to answer a question.

GRACE: Guys, this is not just about the Michael Jackson case. It`s not just because he is a celebrity. This case is symbolic of child molestation allegations all over the country.

People find themselves as victims, as defendants, as jurors, as witnesses in child molestation cases just the way they have in California. Stay with us.

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JACKSON: I love my community. And I have great faith in our justice system. Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. I deserve a fair trial like every other American citizen. I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told. Thank you.

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MICHAEL JACKSON, SINGER ACCUSED OF MOLESTATION: I have water balloon fights and climbing trees. I think that those two are my favorite.

MARTIN BASHIR, BBC DOCUMENTARY HOST: And you prefer making love or going to a concert or...

JACKSON: Hmm?

BASHIR: You really mean that, that you prefer climbing trees and having a balloon fight?

JACKSON: A water balloon fight.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: You be the judge. He wants to have a water balloon fight or climb a tree rather than have sex or go to a concert.

The jury heard that clip this week. That is from the ABC version of the BBC documentary by Martin Bashir.

You know, I was going to ask you, Jane, did the jury hear the portion where Jackson said he would rather climb a tree than have sex?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Oh, yes.

GRACE: So obviously they did.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, they heard the whole thing.

GRACE: He`s not on trial...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It was a bizarre experience.

GRACE: He`s not on trial for felony weird. That`s his business. I want to get back to this video that was played today and back to the girl`s testimony.

She only told me this during the break. I could have used it in the last segment. Caryn Stark, go ahead.

STARK: Well, it`s not unusual at all, Nancy, children to cling to the person who`s their abuser. So that video that you talked about with the young girl, she`s with her dad, and she`s clinging to him because that`s the person that she`s most connected to.

That`s exactly how you know who the abuser is when it comes to children. So if this little boy is holding Michael`s hand, and saying, "He`s my dad," and all of that, that would be the reason you would really be suspect the closer you would see him being to Michael.

GRACE: Hey, Elizabeth, can you roll that Bashir footage?

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JACKSON: We`re going to sleep. I tuck them in. I put little, like, music on and do a little story time. I read a book. It`s very sweet, put the fireplace on, give them hot milk. You know, we have little cookies. It`s very charming, very sweet.

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GRACE: David Wohl, throw me a bone here. I mean, the jury saw that. That was also from the ABC version of the BBC documentary by Bashir.

David, what do you think?

WOHL: Nancy, in most 288 child molestation cases, that is the kiss of death. Mesereau is going to have to say to this jury, look, Michael Jackson`s weird. We know he`s weird. So just ignore that.

And another thing, Nancy, in Neverland ranch, does the signs say beneath it "Girls need not apply"? I mean, the testimony of this girl, with basically Jackson ignored the girls, shoved them aside. That is incredibly powerful when you really think about this in the context of every single person who Jackson`s accused of molesting is a little boy, including the `93 case, which if it comes in, boy, kiss of death in my opinion.

GRACE: Jane Velez-Mitchell, I believe Melville will allow the two other boys to come in.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you know, I have to say that some people were out here speculating today that this video could actually change that, because the judge said a long time ago the reason he`s not deciding on this yet is he once, many years ago, allowed other past cases in before he had heard the prosecution`s case in chief. And he realized that the previous cases were so much stronger than the prosecution`s case in chief that he had to declare a mistrial. And he doesn`t want to make that mistake again.

So that was his reason for not even hearing this until after the prosecution`s case in chief. So now that he`s heard this video, that could call into question -- for the first time, I think, I`ve started to wonder, will he allow those old prior alleged cases in for that very reason?

GRACE: Well, I think it`s too soon to determine, because we`re in the first stages of the state`s case, to determine whether Melville will allow it, if that is his criteria.

Jane, at what point did the girl break down and start crying on the stand?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, she`s started to cry under direct from Tom Sneddon. And she basically said that her brother had changed, that her brother didn`t want her to hug her anymore. And she also said that she saw Michael Jackson behaving inappropriately with her brother. and that was key testimony that I do want to stress.

She said, "Michael Jackson was always hugging and kissing her brother." And kissing on the cheek, she meant, but that she felt that it was inappropriate. Hugging, and hugging, and at one point, he was in the crux of his arm and hugging, and they were hugging each other, and that was certainly very disturbing. But it was overshadowed by the video today.

GRACE: Now, did she earlier testify that she had actually observed them in bed together?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, her testimony was extremely extensive. And she had observed them with the wine bottles. It came up more through the alcohol. She said she had been in Michael Jackson`s room and had seen the alcohol bottles when they were there.

GRACE: Chris Pixley, do you see the possibility of a split verdict, a compromise verdict, where Jackson could be convicted of feeding alcohol to a minor with the intent to molest them or possibly keeping them there against their will and letting him go on the molestation? Or do you think it will be a clean verdict?

PIXLEY: For the same reason you said earlier, that it`s just too soon to tell whether or not the other accuser is going to be allowed to testify. I think it`s really too soon to tell that.

I will say this, though: With respect to the last issue, whether or not there`s -- Michael Jackson is likely to be convicted for false imprisonment for child abduction, I think that that is really shaping up to be a weak claim.

Because what we are hearing again and again are things that Michael Jackson`s handlers did, things that people around Michael Jackson were doing. There`s not yet been a single bit of testimony about how Michael Jackson was holding this family against their will. And until there`s that kind of testimony, I don`t find there to be really any chance for that charge.

GRACE: I`ve got one minute left.

Jane Velez-Mitchell, what`s going to happen come Monday?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, this sister is going to go back on the stand. They`re also going to play the audiotape that this family made with the investigator, Brad Miller, who was working for Mark Geragos, who was Michael Jackson`s attorney around this time. And that`s going to be very interesting. And, as a matter of fact, they tried to play it today and they had technical problems. So that could be the next bombshell on Monday.

GRACE: OK. Everybody, we`re taking a quick break.

For some of you, you are headed to local news. But all of us will be right back.

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GRACE: We desperately want to help find missing people. Take a look at Julian Ruiz, 14-years-old from Battle Creek, Michigan, missing since December 2003. If you have any information on Julian Ruiz, contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1-800-THE-LOST.

Welcome back, everybody. What a week in America`s courtrooms. Before we say good night, let`s take a look at some of the stories and the people that touched all of our lives.

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GRACE: Remember Alex Kelly, that prep student turned rapist? Today, wah, wah, he wants an early release.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was a child at 17 when Alex Kelly kidnapped, raped and sodomized me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The board has found that your release is incompatible with the welfare of society.

ALEX KELLY, CONVICTED RAPIST: Why did we come here? This was a waste of time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Kelly, this hearing has been concluded.

GRACE: Domestic icon Martha Stewart released from Alderson`s Women`s Jail in the wee hours of the morning. She was officially released at 12:01 a.m. She jetted off to her home in Bedford, New York, for house arrest.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How does it feel to be home, Martha?

STEWART: It feels great.

GRACE: Federal Judge Joan Lefkow came home to find her 89-year-old mother and the judge`s husband murdered.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will not slow down until we identify the person or persons responsible for these murders.

GRACE: Robert Blake on trial for the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Essentially the defense was, "She`s a tramp. You shouldn`t care."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because that`s what this case is all about, the defendant getting what he wants. And if he can`t get someone else to do it, he`ll do it himself.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have not found Jessica. I wish I could tell you we did find Jessica, but we have not.

MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF MISSING GIRL: I`m sure that a lot of you have little girls that are adorable. And they have the most wonderful personality. They can make you smile when you need it the most.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The grandfather, Archie, has a criminal record. It`s 50 years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jessie, I love you, and come home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Thank you to Jane Velez-Mitchell, Chris Pixley, David Wohl, Caryn Stark.

My biggest thank you to you for inviting us into your homes. I`m Nancy Grace signing off for this week. I`ll see you here Monday night, 8:00 sharp. Until then, good night, friend.

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, disturbing developments in the case of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford out of Florida. Jessie disappeared from her own bedroom last week.
After thousands of man-hours devoted to the search, hundreds of volunteers, tonight we have learned that Jessie`s grandfather, who lived in the home, Archie Lunsford, allegedly has a rap sheet dating back 50 years, including arrests for attempted rape, assault, battery and attempted kidnapping.

Tonight, the reward for little Jessie has risen to $115,000.

And also in the news, domestic icon Martha Stewart released from Alderson`s Women`s Jail in the wee hours of the morning. She was officially released at 12:01 a.m. Around 12:45 a.m., she jetted off to her home in Bedford, New York, for house arrest.

We also take you live to California at the end of week one in the Michael Jackson sex case.

Good evening everybody. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us this Friday night.

Well, week one in the Jackson trial. Today the alleged child victim`s own sister broke down on the stand.

After five months behind bars, Martha Stewart comes home, for at least five months anyway. She will be electronically monitored with an ankle bracelet. Stewart will be allowed to go to work 48 hours a week.

But first tonight, Jessie Lunsford: Her grandfather now under new scrutiny. Florida authorities report Archie Lunsford has a criminal record.

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SHERIFF JEFF DAWSY, CITRUS COUNTY POLICE DEPT.: He was arrested in `54 in Indianapolis by the police department on a charge of pre-kidnapping. He`s pretty well answered that to us. There was no prosecution. He says it was his child. The problem is, I don`t have a way to validate that. I have asked Indianapolis to go in and look at the charges.

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GRACE: You know, well, I`m a little concerned about the alleged attempted rape arrest, as well.

With us tonight, Marc Klaas from San Francisco and Ed Smart from Salt Lake City, both friends and colleagues. Both of their daughters were kidnapped. Ed`s daughter, Elizabeth Smart, came home. Marc`s daughter, Polly, did not.

Also with us tonight, New York psychologist Caryn Stark.

Welcome everybody.

First to you, Marc Klaas, what is your thought on the investigation with the new development?

MARC KLAAS, VICTIMS` RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Well, there`s a lot of different ways one can go with this. But certainly, with the grandfather, ultimately -- I guess having admitted that he had this criminal past, he`s going to have to have a "Come to Jesus" moment with the police. Because obviously everyone who`s watching your show or has any knowledge of this will be looking straight at him and wondering what he did to that little girl.

He`s going to have to provide the name of the rape victim that never showed up for court so that the police can look into that. He`s going to have to be able to account totally and completely for his time. He`s going to have to take any kind of stress test or polygraphs that law enforcement wants to impose upon him and do whatever he can to clear himself.

If he can clear himself, I think that there`s some real possibilities we won`t see this child alive again.

GRACE: Ed Smart, do we have any idea how old Archie Lunsford is?

ED SMART, FATHER OF ELIZABETH SMART: Well, I don`t know how old he is.

GRACE: 60s, 70s?

SMART: I think he`s in his 60s, early 70s.

GRACE: So, let me ask you this, Caryn Stark, before I go back to Ed Smart, how does that factor into -- he has not been named a suspect. These arrests were many, many years ago. But how does his age play in? I mean, are men still sex predators when they`re up in their 60s and 70s?

CARYN STARK, PSYCHOLOGIST: Nancy, I hate to say this, but they are always sex predators. It just doesn`t go away. Once you`re a sex predator, you are a sex predator, and it stays with you.

GRACE: You`re kidding?

STARK: No, I`m absolutely saying...

GRACE: You mean at age 70 they`re not out of commission?

STARK: Well, no. Men aren`t even sexually out of commission. And these people just don`t get rehabilitated. So...

GRACE: And, again, I want to make clear, Ed, just because this guy has arrests back 30, 40, 50 years ago does not in any way make him a suspect. He`s answered police questions. This is what`s troubling me, Ed, and it`s been troubling me for about three days now. I know the police have now limited their search to around a 3/4-mile radius around the home. What does that say to you, Ed?

SMART: Well, you know, they usually say that five miles is the parameter that you`ll find the child. And I think that you can`t just limit yourself. I mean, Elizabeth was within five miles of our home during that abduction. And we couldn`t find her. But she was out there.

And I don`t think that they can give up. They`ve got to keep searching. I mean, certainly, this grandfather has to be looked at. There`s no question about that. But on the other hand, they need to find it, clear him, get him out of the way and move forward.

GRACE: Well, that`s what you and Marc did. Of course, fathers, grandfathers, men that live in the house, they`re the first suspects. You have got to go ahead, answer questions, come clean, take a polygraph, do whatever, give your DNA so they can move on to find the real suspect. Both of you gentleman unfortunately lived through police suspicion and survived.

Marc Klaas, how does the grandfather -- I kept hearing last week he`s going to take a polygraph, he`s going to take a polygraph. Did he take it?

KLAAS: Well, I`ve been told by one source he did take it and that he did pass. But I haven`t had that or seen that verified.

But you know, it gets even worse, Nancy. The St. Petersburg Times just a few minutes ago got out the story that Mark Lunsford has a criminal record in North Carolina, as well. It`s just getting worse and worse for this family. And if I could very quickly -- I have no idea why they have stopped searching for this little girl.

GRACE: Me either.

KLAAS: I agree with Ed. They have to get out there, and they have to conduct a very comprehensive search. Two days ago, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announced that they had 20 people on the scene. And only today they have announced that they have left the scene. Why doesn`t somebody go in there...

GRACE: Wait, wait, wait. Marc? Marc?

KLAAS: Yes?

GRACE: Are you saying that possibly they know something we don`t know? Why would they cut down the number of searchers?

KLAAS: They don`t know where Jessica is. We all seem to be losing sight of the fact that there`s a little girl out there, that the little girl is missing, that nothing else should really matter, yet they have packed up their bags and they have left, twenty people from the national center. Why is that happening?

GRACE: Why is that?

KLAAS: I`ll tell you, the one thing that makes a little bit of sense to me is this is all coming out of the sheriff`s pocket. I mean, this is something that he has to pay for. He may not have the budget for it. But certainly a well-organized volunteer search that utilizes professional leadership and the assistance of the community could accomplish huge things without costing the sheriff anything.

GRACE: Let me ask you, Ed Smart, can you think of any reason they would scale back?

SMART: You know, they may feel that they have searched and searched. But, you know, you can look, and look, and look, and that person is still there right underneath your nose, and you`re not finding it.

And I`ve had a chance to visit with Florida law enforcement. They have created something similar to what the national center has and have organized regional groups of law enforcement that deal with missing children. And so I feel like they probably have a good grasp on it.

The thing that`s disturbing to me is that, you know, right now, we are hearing that there might be a question about a grandfather, might be a question about Mark, but, you know, initially, it was said that law enforcement cleared everyone...

GRACE: That`s right.

SMART: ... that the family was out of the picture. And that`s the issue that I don`t get is, if there is an issue there, you know, why wasn`t it addressed initially? If it isn`t an issue, for heaven`s sake, come out and tell us that it`s not an issue because people are out there working, and searching, and putting in time. And that little girl needs to be found. And if they have something that can help, I would think that they would come forward.

GRACE: Marc Klaas, you mentioned the father has an arrest. What is it for?

KLAAS: It was an assault upon a woman, I believe. That was something that somebody told me just a few minutes ago.

You know, Ed`s absolutely right. You know, he`s right about the search teams. And, look, the first three days of this response was textbook. It has to be the template for all responses that follow. But they have faltered time and time again after that, and it seems to me that the entire thing is in disarray now, even with this latest revelation of the sheriff having to call a hastily conferred press conference to let the public know that, in fact, grandpa isn`t exactly the model citizen he had been portrayed as.

GRACE: Marc Klaas and Ed Smart, a last question before we go to break. As you know, Jessica Lunsford, still missing tonight. We have not given up. We`re still publicizing her photo, all of her information.

Before we go to break, Ed, at this juncture, when Elizabeth went missing, what were you going through?

SMART: Well, you know, the family had not been cleared at a week`s time. Lois and I were up wandering the halls wondering what possibly Mary Catherine could have seen.

You know, we couldn`t sleep. I mean, we were barely functioning. Marc had come out and told us what he thought we should do, and we appreciated that. And we felt that, you know, we`ve got to keep going. Elizabeth`s going to walk back into our lives. And, you know, those first couple of weeks we kept on expecting her...

GRACE: Yes.

SMART: ... to be found.

GRACE: I remember.

SMART: And I just think that the Lunsfords have to keep moving forward and cooperating fully with law enforcement. You know, our family came up at their own risk and said everything that they needed to say...

GRACE: I remember.

SMART: ... that would possibly try to clear them. And, you know, I think that law enforcement just needs to get that cleared.

GRACE: And let me go to you, Marc. At this time when Polly went missing, everyone, Polly never came home. Polly was murdered.

KLAAS: Yes.

GRACE: What were you going through at this juncture?

KLAAS: At this point in the investigation, a week after it had started, I thought that everything was falling apart. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. I was an emotional and psychological mess.

It was an FBI agent that literally picked me up off the ground, slapped me around, told me I had to get my act together, I had to go out there everyday and do something to bring my daughter back. And it gave me a new life. And, in fact, was one of the great epiphanies of my life.

GRACE: Marc Klaas, Ed Smart, friends and colleagues, thanks for your words tonight as our thoughts and our prayers continue to go out in the hope that Jessica will come home safely. Stay with us.

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DAWSY: And last but not least, in 1959, Titusville, the sheriff`s office arrested Lunsford on charges of attempted rape. And I know that sends everybody signals up high. Again, apparently the adjudication was withheld. This is, again, for Archie. It was a female. It was an adult. It never went to trial.

And I wish I had some concrete information. We have been asking to research this information for us and get it to me. But, again, I do not have that information concrete so I can work out of specifics.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MARTHA STEWART, JUST RELEASED FROM PRISON: The past two years and seven months, and it has been that long, have been a time of immense difficulty, immense sacrifice, and immense agony, not only for me, but for my loved ones, my daughter, Alexis, the rest of my family, my friends, my colleagues, and all our business partners.

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GRACE: Martha Stewart is back at home after doing jail time in a West Virginia prison. She now serves home detention, that portion of her sentence, at Bedford, New York, in her mansion.

Tonight, from "New York" magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis -- I think. Correct me if I`m wrong. In Atlanta, defense attorney Chris Pixley. From L.A., defense lawyer David Wohl, and former Alderson inmate, Jean Marlowe. Also with us here in the studio, psychologist Caryn Stark.

But first to CNN`s Mary Snow who is outside Stewart`s home. Hey, that`s a tough assignment right outside of a fancy mansion. I want your job.

What`s the latest, Mary?

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I`ll tell you, Nancy, quiet now. And it really has been a whirlwind day for Martha Stewart and for a lot of the media obviously following her. But some private moments tonight. The shades in her home have been drawn. This, after a very public day, starting with her exit from Greenbrier Airport last night.

Shortly after midnight, she was released. Her plane took off about 1 o`clock, and her company really helping to orchestrate that shot for the cameras, catching her smiling, waving, looking very relaxed and happy, boarding that chartered plane.

And then she got here to Bedford about 2:30 in the morning. We saw her several times throughout the day at her estate, 153-acre estate, I might add. And, you know, she`s not just stepped back in the spotlight, but really embraced it.

She was seen walking around the grounds. She was petting her horse. She was walking with her dogs. She also was seen with her daughter, Alexis, who went to Alderson to pick her up from prison.

And she spoke with the media a couple of times, joking with them. She offered them coffee in the morning, then at one point sent hot chocolate out to them, and also kind of was joking a little bit during the day and told a little bit of a story that kind of summed up the day.

When she came out with lemons, obviously, the thinking is, you know, she is always been able to make lemonade out of lemons.

GRACE: I understand she actually juggled some of the lemons.

SNOW: She did.

GRACE: She`s got a lot of hidden talents. Mary Snow is with us.

I want to go to Jean Marlowe. Jean did time in Alderson Ladies` Prison.

Jean, why did you go to Alderson?

JEAN MARLOWE, FORMER INMATE AT ALDERSON: Well, Nancy, I received a package of medical marijuana from a farm in Switzerland. They were trying to help me so I wouldn`t get my medicine from out of truck tires or out of cattle trailers. They were trying to get me clean organic medicine and they sent it to me in the mail.

GRACE: So, marijuana. So, marijuana?

MARLOWE: Yes.

GRACE: Tell me about Alderson. What is it like behind bars at Alderson?

MARLOWE: It`s a very tough situation. There`s total sleep deprivation. You have to be at certain places exactly like they say. You`re called with a cow bell, that they ring it. There`s never any privacy. There`s...

GRACE: Called with a cow bell? I do not want to wake up to a cow bell. I`ve heard a cow bell. OK, go ahead.

MARLOWE: I used to like brass bells, Nancy, but...

GRACE: Not anymore.

MARLOWE: ... after they sent -- not anymore. I can`t stand them.

(LAUGHTER)

MARLOWE: The sleeping situation is really bad. The cots are old. They`re bad. They`re wore out. It`s like sleeping on a hammock more than so than a bed. There`s no privacy. The lights are always on. It`s always a racket. It`s a tough situation, but she`ll come through it. I think she`s going to be fine.

GRACE: And let`s get another shot, Elizabeth, of where Mary Snow is.

Mary, are you outside Martha`s crib? Can we see it? What is it like?

SNOW: You can`t see it from here. Nancy, just to give you a little perspective, her estate is actually bigger than the grounds at Alderson where she served time. Alderson is like 95 acres. Hers is a 153.

This is a very posh area. And, you know, it`s farmland. There are a lot of horses here, several buildings on the estate. She has a great house there. And it`s really quite beautiful.

GRACE: You know what? If I were her probation officer, I would come by every Friday night around dinner time to do a spot check.

Quick break. We`ll be right back with more on Martha.

But as we go to break, "Trial Tracking" tonight. We are in a verdict watch on the Robert Blake murder trial. The jury sent home for the weekend. They will come back on Monday.

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GERALD SCHWARTZBACH, ROBERT BLAKE`S DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Probably guilty is not enough. Strong suspicion is not enough. All I ask you to do is do justice. And I will respectfully submit to you, that if you do justice, you will end this nightmare for Mr. Blake. And you will give him back his life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Gee, didn`t mention anything about the nightmare Bonny Bakley suffered dying in the middle of the road.

Reminder: We bring you live coverage of the Blake case, Monday, 3:00 to 5:00 Eastern on Court TV`s "Closing Arguments." Stay with us.

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GRACE: Martha Stewart out of jail. Well, I know one person`s happy, that horse right there. She`s been petting the horses and her dogs and walking around her estate in New York.

Welcome home, Martha.

Let`s go straight out to "New York" magazine`s Vanessa Grigoriadis.

I worked on it during the break, Vanessa.

VANESSA GRIGORIADIS, "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE: Very good.

GRACE: You know, a lot of people, and they must be saying this tongue-in-cheek, because these people obviously have not been behind bars before -- have you ever been to a jail, Vanessa?

GRIGORIADIS: I have visited people in jail.

GRACE: They`re not nice. They`re not nice at all. A lot of people are saying tonight, going to jail was a good career move for Martha Stewart. I think she might disagree.

GRIGORIADIS: Well, she certainly seems to now be happy that she is out. I think that it was a corporate move. I don`t think that it was a personal decision. But, you know, it was something that she had to do to save her company. And by all accounts it seems to have worked.

GRACE: I think you are right about that. What does she need to do to re-establish the health of the company?

GRIGORIADIS: Well, I mean, as far as her image is concerned, I don`t think she has to do anything.

GRACE: I think you`re right.

GRIGORIADIS: She went to jail and that`s enough.

GRACE: I think you are right. And Vanessa, also, apparently, she is going to write a book. I saw her last night. I was on live TV in for Larry King. I saw her carrying boxes of documents into the plane. And I guarantee you that`s the next best-seller. And I will definitely buy it.

So, a book, a made-for-TV series? What does she got in the hopper?

GRIGORIADIS: Well, I mean, obviously, she has her reality show. I mean, who knows exactly what form this book will take?

But she has got, you know, both a morning show and a reality show. I mean, the reality show`s going to make her an even bigger household name, if that`s possible. Now, what that actually means for her company`s revenue is certainly, you know, still a question. I mean, I don`t think there`s anybody out there who doesn`t know who Martha Stewart is at this point.

GRACE: True. True. True.

GRIGORIADIS: So who are the additional customers for her products? I don`t know if they exist.

GRACE: Good point.

You know, Jean Marlowe, we are talking about her beautiful estate now. She`s going to be on house arrest. Let`s go back to Alderson just a moment. Before everybody starts makes light of her doing time, what kind of offenders are in Alderson?

MARLOWE: The majority of them, Nancy, are drug offenders. The majority of them there are nonviolent. They`re there for conspiracy. A few white collar crime, you know, but most of it is drug charges. The majority of them are drug charges.

GRACE: Do you think that she was well-liked in prison?

MARLOWE: From what I hear from the girls in there, they liked her. She seemed to get along pretty good. Of course, she was withdrawn at times, but everybody who goes to prison, every woman -- that`s the only privacy you have is what`s inside. So you have to be withdrawn to a certain extent to just to survive with your sensibilities intact.

GRACE: Jean...

MARLOWE: You have to keep something to yourself.

GRACE: Jean, I have only got a couple of moments left, but what is a typical day like at Alderson?

MARLOWE: Well, you wake up in the morning to the sound of rackets, and lockers slamming, and people getting ready for work. And you`re told to hurry, hurry, hurry while you`re in the bathroom because the ladies who are trying to do the maintenance want you to get out of there so that they can get it cleaned up and get their day started, get on their work.

And you have to hurry. You`re having to stand in line to get a chance to use the toilet or use a sink or get to the shower. You hurry there. You have to go eat, be at work.

Then you`re being at count where you have to be. If you have to go to the doctor or anything, then you stand -- it`s long, long times standing in line.

GRACE: Jean...

MARLOWE: Everything is hurrying and standing in lines.

GRACE: Jean, we have to go to break. I want to thank all of you ladies for being with us tonight regarding Martha Stewart. We`ll be right back. Stay with us.

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SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I`m Sophia Choi. Let`s get to your "Headline Prime Newsbreak."

An Italian journalist was shot and wounded by U.S. soldiers just moments after being freed from her insurgent captors. Soldiers fired on her car at a Baghdad checkpoint. A man that helped negotiate her release was killed in that gunfire. President Bush has promised Italy`s prime minister that there will be a investigation.

Calling it an attack on the judicial system, the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for leads in the investigation of the murders of a federal judge`s husband and mother. The investigators have not identified any suspect and no arrests have been made. Chicago Judge Joan Lefkow says she won`t let the killings keep her from returning to the bench.

Nearly three times as many people are seeking treatment for marijuana use than were doing so in the previous decade. The White House`s Office of National Drug Control Policy says the change reflects an increase in marijuana use and the drug`s rising potency.

That`s the news for now. I`m Sophia Choi. Now back to NANCY GRACE.

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MICHAEL JACKSON, SINGER: We have guest rooms, but whenever kids come here, they always want to stay with me. They never want to stay in the guest -- and I have never invited them in my room. They always just want to stay. They say, "Can I stay with you tonight?" I go, "If it`s OK with your parents, yes, you can."

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GRACE: The jury heard that clip this week from the ABC version of that BBC documentary. Remember the one by Martin Bashir.

Well, today, in the Jackson case, the boy`s sister broke down in tears on the stand, claiming her brother changed after having been with Jackson. "Celebrity Justice" correspondent Jane Velez-Mitchell has the lowdown.

Hi, friend. What`s the latest?

JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": Oh, the latest, what a dramatic day in court.

Yes, the sister broke down and cried, and said her brother had changed and he didn`t want to be kissed or hugged by her. And it really hurt her because she`s the older sister and that he had really become different after leaving Neverland.

The other bombshell, of course, this amazing rebuttal video that was played in court. Now, this is the video done by Michael Jackson`s people a couple of weeks after the Bashir documentary aired of this family, the family now accusing Michael Jackson of terrible crimes.

The prosecution says this video was scripted and rehearsed, they were told what to say, but I have to tell you, watching it, it doesn`t look like they were told what to say. They are gushing. They are falling over each other.

They are interrupting each other for the privilege of saying how much they love Michael Jackson, what an ideal father figure he is, how he spread his wings and took them underneath it, how God worked through Michael to breathe life into this boy. It is absolutely astounding, and they go on like this for more than an hour. And it was really a shocker.

I mean, this was played by the prosecution undoubtedly as a pre- emptive strike. They know that it`s going to be played by the defense. They figure, "Let`s get it over with." But we were reeling after more than an hour of this.

GRACE: Do you think, Jane, there is a script that goes with that? Do you think the mother and the boys were given any type of guidance, script, direction, as to what to say?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: There is a voice off camera saying, "OK, we`d like you to talk about this. We`d like you to talk about Michael and his children." But it`s not, "Tell them this." It is not, "Do this, do that."

And then, there are moments during outtakes where the mother at one point says, "Hey, get a shot of me and my son hands, holding hands, the way they did in the Bashir documentary. Oh, they made a beautiful innocent thing. They spun it out of control. Get a shot of our hands holding hands because it`s so innocent."

We were shocked. We were sitting there in the courtroom when the lights went on for the break. Everybody was sort of looking around like, "Wow." How is this going to affect the conspiracy case? This was at the time they were supposed to be held hostage, forced against their will, coerced into doing this video. And even in the outtakes, they seem happy. They seem quite elated.

GRACE: Caryn Stark, what do you make of it?

STARK: Well, it`s the joking around and the fact that they were so light-hearted, Nancy, that leaves me suspect. That doesn`t sound like a captive. If you`re captive, at least you would have a glum, a more sober exterior. And here they are, she`s laughing. She`s saying, you know, "Zoom in on us, just like you did in the Bashir tape." I think that that`s a problem.

GRACE: You know what...

STARK: What, Nancy?

GRACE: ... you just made me think of? You made me think of a six- year-old little girl whose case I prosecuted once. Her father had been having full blown sex with her since about age three.

And just before his indictment, they had home video of them having a birthday party. And everybody was so happy until the next week when I told the mother her daughter didn`t have a hymen. And she was like, "What? What?"

Yes, so I`m sorry. I`m not going into it like the fish on a hook. But I guess you are, Chris Pixley.

CHRIS PIXLEY, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know, Nancy, obviously, you`ve got to take this as a, you know, strike against the prosecution. Now, I would agree with Jane. They`re obviously using it now to try to take the wind out of the defense sails and not allow the defense to destroy their case by putting it on in their own case. But, you know, there`s nothing about this tape that`s positive for the prosecution. And most importantly...

GRACE: No, there`s not. I have got to agree with you, Chris. I have to agree with you. This hurts.

PIXLEY: And, Nancy, you know, when the mother is making these statements, this isn`t a child being influenced by, you know, the powerful father figure. This is the mother. She`s an adult. She knows better.

GRACE: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Just the other night, you told me I can`t believe anything this mother says. She`ll say whatever suits her, whatever benefits her at that moment. But now you want me to believe this video because it helps you.

PIXLEY: Well, I don`t know that I said that.

GRACE: Yes, you did.

PIXLEY: We`ll have to roll the tape. I don`t think I suggested...

GRACE: Elizabeth, roll that beautiful bean footage.

PIXLEY: I don`t think I suggested ever that she can`t be believed. What I did suggest is that her credibility is going to be called into question...

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GRACE: You have been hammering that mother from day zero.

Hold on. I`m going to get your partner in crime, David Wohl, to jump in.

Jump in, David Wohl. And know you and Pixley are singing the same verse, same as the first.

DAVID WOHL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I`m actually not, Nancy. And I`ll tell you why. What was the motivation for making this video to begin with? It`s because Jackson saw the Martin Bashir video and he flipped out. He freaked out. He knew he had to make something that would make him look good, period.

Now, the mother apparently was given a ton of dough by Jackson to go on this shopping spree. They were also apparently threatened. There`s been no contradiction to that, yet.

GRACE: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, David.

Elizabeth, every time you play that footage of the baby dangling, it gives me angina. You must stop, Elizabeth. I always think the baby`s going to fall.

OK, go ahead, David.

WOHL: But, Nancy, I think there was incredible motivation to make this to begin with. And that in and of itself impugns the credibility of this particular video. So I think that ends up in the long run being a problem for Jackson.

GRACE: What about it, Jane?

PIXLEY: Were it not for the fact...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, this happened...

GRACE: Go ahead, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: ... on the 19th. This happened on February 19th, a couple of weeks after the Bashir documentary aired. This is supposedly during the time of this conspiracy where they`re being held against their will.

One of the things that Mesereau was also able to establish on cross- examination is that this girl and her family, they went to the Department of Children and Family Services, or at least social workers from that department interviewed them at the mother`s boyfriend`s house.

They went to a shopping mall. They went to a federal building to get their passports. They went all around. Did they ever at any time say, "Hey, help us, we`re being held hostage, we`re being held against our will"? They never did that once apparently.

GRACE: Jane, Jane, Jane, I get it. And I agree. It looks bad for the prosecution.

But from where I`m coming from -- I`m going to throw this one to you, Chris -- after prosecuting so many child molestations, most kids never, ever, ever, ever tell. They put up with it. They think it`s normal. They don`t even understand it`s wrong.

So, especially with that example I just told Caryn Stark about, where I prosecuted a child molestation, the girl was six-years-old, full blown sex with her father for years. And then just before the indictment on child molestation, they`re having this beautiful birthday celebration for the little girl. Everybody`s happy. They`re taking pictures. The kid doesn`t even have a hymen, Chris. So I`m not surprised that the boy didn`t say anything.

PIXLEY: But, Nancy, who are the experts in determining child molestation if anyone is? It`s the Department of Child and Family Services. They did the investigation. They didn`t say that they had insufficient evidence. They said there is absolutely no basis for a claim of molestation against Michael Jackson.

Now, because of that, the Santa Barbara D.A. has now had to say, "OK, well it only happened after the Bashir documentary, while Michael Jackson`s under investigation by the LAPD and the DCFS. That just doesn`t happen.

They are the experts. And if the Santa Barbara D.A. thinks that he is more expert than they are, you have to ask yourself why, only 60 days before the trial, he`s still out there asking for people who have something against Michael Jackson, who have a story about Michael Jackson and molestation, to come forward.

If Michael Jackson was molesting children at the Neverland ranch, he`s had them there for nearly 20 years, there wouldn`t be one accuser. There would be 2000.

GRACE: Hey, hey, hey, I asked you for an answer. I asked you for an answer not the closing argument. But that was a beautiful summation, Chris Pixley.

Very quickly, Jane Velez, before Pixley cranks back his closing statement again, what`s going to happen next?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, she remains on the stand. And I think here`s where Mesereau could be going overboard. He has kept her on the stand for hours now. And a lot of people really feel sorry for this girl. He`s gotten her to say that, yes, she fibs on occasion and things of that nature.

She`s an 18-year-old who sounds like a 15-year-old. She is being grilled now for hours. And I think that there`s a lot of people -- my heart goes out to her. She didn`t molest anybody. She`s not a criminal.

And my feeling is she`s a tragic figure that`s trapped in this very adult world. I don`t know who`s done what to her, but something`s been done to her. And my heart goes out to her as a human being.

GRACE: Hey, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes?

GRACE: Do you find her believable?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I found her believable yesterday. Today I don`t find her as believable because she seems to be repeating answers. In other words, when she was talking to prosecutors, she was offering information. But then when questions came up that she didn`t want to answer, she would say, almost over and over again, "I don`t remember. It happened a long time ago. I was very young."

And finally, Mesereau said, "Did someone tell you to say that every time you have a question you don`t want to answer, that rote answer, that stock answer?" And she said, "No." But it did stick into everyone`s mind the possibility that somebody had told her to say that because she was saying it every time she didn`t want to answer a question.

GRACE: Guys, this is not just about the Michael Jackson case. It`s not just because he is a celebrity. This case is symbolic of child molestation allegations all over the country.

People find themselves as victims, as defendants, as jurors, as witnesses in child molestation cases just the way they have in California. Stay with us.

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JACKSON: I love my community. And I have great faith in our justice system. Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. I deserve a fair trial like every other American citizen. I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told. Thank you.

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MICHAEL JACKSON, SINGER ACCUSED OF MOLESTATION: I have water balloon fights and climbing trees. I think that those two are my favorite.

MARTIN BASHIR, BBC DOCUMENTARY HOST: And you prefer making love or going to a concert or...

JACKSON: Hmm?

BASHIR: You really mean that, that you prefer climbing trees and having a balloon fight?

JACKSON: A water balloon fight.

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GRACE: You be the judge. He wants to have a water balloon fight or climb a tree rather than have sex or go to a concert.

The jury heard that clip this week. That is from the ABC version of the BBC documentary by Martin Bashir.

You know, I was going to ask you, Jane, did the jury hear the portion where Jackson said he would rather climb a tree than have sex?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Oh, yes.

GRACE: So obviously they did.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, they heard the whole thing.

GRACE: He`s not on trial...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It was a bizarre experience.

GRACE: He`s not on trial for felony weird. That`s his business. I want to get back to this video that was played today and back to the girl`s testimony.

She only told me this during the break. I could have used it in the last segment. Caryn Stark, go ahead.

STARK: Well, it`s not unusual at all, Nancy, children to cling to the person who`s their abuser. So that video that you talked about with the young girl, she`s with her dad, and she`s clinging to him because that`s the person that she`s most connected to.

That`s exactly how you know who the abuser is when it comes to children. So if this little boy is holding Michael`s hand, and saying, "He`s my dad," and all of that, that would be the reason you would really be suspect the closer you would see him being to Michael.

GRACE: Hey, Elizabeth, can you roll that Bashir footage?

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JACKSON: We`re going to sleep. I tuck them in. I put little, like, music on and do a little story time. I read a book. It`s very sweet, put the fireplace on, give them hot milk. You know, we have little cookies. It`s very charming, very sweet.

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GRACE: David Wohl, throw me a bone here. I mean, the jury saw that. That was also from the ABC version of the BBC documentary by Bashir.

David, what do you think?

WOHL: Nancy, in most 288 child molestation cases, that is the kiss of death. Mesereau is going to have to say to this jury, look, Michael Jackson`s weird. We know he`s weird. So just ignore that.

And another thing, Nancy, in Neverland ranch, does the signs say beneath it "Girls need not apply"? I mean, the testimony of this girl, with basically Jackson ignored the girls, shoved them aside. That is incredibly powerful when you really think about this in the context of every single person who Jackson`s accused of molesting is a little boy, including the `93 case, which if it comes in, boy, kiss of death in my opinion.

GRACE: Jane Velez-Mitchell, I believe Melville will allow the two other boys to come in.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you know, I have to say that some people were out here speculating today that this video could actually change that, because the judge said a long time ago the reason he`s not deciding on this yet is he once, many years ago, allowed other past cases in before he had heard the prosecution`s case in chief. And he realized that the previous cases were so much stronger than the prosecution`s case in chief that he had to declare a mistrial. And he doesn`t want to make that mistake again.

So that was his reason for not even hearing this until after the prosecution`s case in chief. So now that he`s heard this video, that could call into question -- for the first time, I think, I`ve started to wonder, will he allow those old prior alleged cases in for that very reason?

GRACE: Well, I think it`s too soon to determine, because we`re in the first stages of the state`s case, to determine whether Melville will allow it, if that is his criteria.

Jane, at what point did the girl break down and start crying on the stand?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, she`s started to cry under direct from Tom Sneddon. And she basically said that her brother had changed, that her brother didn`t want her to hug her anymore. And she also said that she saw Michael Jackson behaving inappropriately with her brother. and that was key testimony that I do want to stress.

She said, "Michael Jackson was always hugging and kissing her brother." And kissing on the cheek, she meant, but that she felt that it was inappropriate. Hugging, and hugging, and at one point, he was in the crux of his arm and hugging, and they were hugging each other, and that was certainly very disturbing. But it was overshadowed by the video today.

GRACE: Now, did she earlier testify that she had actually observed them in bed together?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, her testimony was extremely extensive. And she had observed them with the wine bottles. It came up more through the alcohol. She said she had been in Michael Jackson`s room and had seen the alcohol bottles when they were there.

GRACE: Chris Pixley, do you see the possibility of a split verdict, a compromise verdict, where Jackson could be convicted of feeding alcohol to a minor with the intent to molest them or possibly keeping them there against their will and letting him go on the molestation? Or do you think it will be a clean verdict?

PIXLEY: For the same reason you said earlier, that it`s just too soon to tell whether or not the other accuser is going to be allowed to testify. I think it`s really too soon to tell that.

I will say this, though: With respect to the last issue, whether or not there`s -- Michael Jackson is likely to be convicted for false imprisonment for child abduction, I think that that is really shaping up to be a weak claim.

Because what we are hearing again and again are things that Michael Jackson`s handlers did, things that people around Michael Jackson were doing. There`s not yet been a single bit of testimony about how Michael Jackson was holding this family against their will. And until there`s that kind of testimony, I don`t find there to be really any chance for that charge.

GRACE: I`ve got one minute left.

Jane Velez-Mitchell, what`s going to happen come Monday?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, this sister is going to go back on the stand. They`re also going to play the audiotape that this family made with the investigator, Brad Miller, who was working for Mark Geragos, who was Michael Jackson`s attorney around this time. And that`s going to be very interesting. And, as a matter of fact, they tried to play it today and they had technical problems. So that could be the next bombshell on Monday.

GRACE: OK. Everybody, we`re taking a quick break.

For some of you, you are headed to local news. But all of us will be right back.

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GRACE: We desperately want to help find missing people. Take a look at Julian Ruiz, 14-years-old from Battle Creek, Michigan, missing since December 2003. If you have any information on Julian Ruiz, contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1-800-THE-LOST.

Welcome back, everybody. What a week in America`s courtrooms. Before we say good night, let`s take a look at some of the stories and the people that touched all of our lives.

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GRACE: Remember Alex Kelly, that prep student turned rapist? Today, wah, wah, he wants an early release.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was a child at 17 when Alex Kelly kidnapped, raped and sodomized me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The board has found that your release is incompatible with the welfare of society.

ALEX KELLY, CONVICTED RAPIST: Why did we come here? This was a waste of time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Kelly, this hearing has been concluded.

GRACE: Domestic icon Martha Stewart released from Alderson`s Women`s Jail in the wee hours of the morning. She was officially released at 12:01 a.m. She jetted off to her home in Bedford, New York, for house arrest.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How does it feel to be home, Martha?

STEWART: It feels great.

GRACE: Federal Judge Joan Lefkow came home to find her 89-year-old mother and the judge`s husband murdered.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will not slow down until we identify the person or persons responsible for these murders.

GRACE: Robert Blake on trial for the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Essentially the defense was, "She`s a tramp. You shouldn`t care."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because that`s what this case is all about, the defendant getting what he wants. And if he can`t get someone else to do it, he`ll do it himself.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have not found Jessica. I wish I could tell you we did find Jessica, but we have not.

MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF MISSING GIRL: I`m sure that a lot of you have little girls that are adorable. And they have the most wonderful personality. They can make you smile when you need it the most.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The grandfather, Archie, has a criminal record. It`s 50 years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jessie, I love you, and come home.

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GRACE: Thank you to Jane Velez-Mitchell, Chris Pixley, David Wohl, Caryn Stark.

My biggest thank you to you for inviting us into your homes. I`m Nancy Grace signing off for this week. I`ll see you here Monday night, 8:00 sharp. Until then, good night, friend.

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