The courtroom of Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial was completed with lurid magazine covers of topless women. These are the latest move of the prosecutor to prove that Jackson had used these reading materials to arouse young boys.

　　"They want the jury to get the sense of Michael Jackson as a pervert who doesn’t live by the rules and is obsessed with sex," said Laurie Levenson, a former prosecutor and professor at Loyola University Law School. "But this could backfire."

　　The show that has been projected on a large screen in the courtroom in recent days include commercially available magazines such as "Barely Legal" and "Penthouse."

　　They saw this type of magazine when they were in Jackson’s bedroom, the boy and his brother said.

　　It is very hard for the prosecution to prove that Jackson and the boy handled the magazine together ¡ª an important premise of the case.

　　"It sounds like a distraction, but as a trial strategy you can’t keep the jury distracted forever," said Los Angeles attorney Steve Cron, who has tried molestation cases. "It may be that stronger points of (District Attorney Tom) Sneddon’s case are yet to come, but it’s always hard to overcome a weak accuser."