Pajama bottoms and bombshells—the Michael Jackson trial has a
bit of everything. Week two of the trial reached its absurd low
point on March 10, when Jackson failed to appear in court, was
given an hour to show up by the judge and finally arrived—eight
minutes after the deadline—in blue pajama bottoms and black
dinner jacket. A woozy Jackson, claiming back pain, avoided a
sanction but had to listen to his 15-year-old accuser rivet the
courtroom with his graphic tale of molestation. Says former
federal prosecutor Laurie Levenson: "You sort of heard the air
go out in the room."  Over the weekend the defense regrouped and
produced a surprise witness: Jeffrey Alpert, dean of the Los
Angeles middle school once attended by the accuser. In response,
prosecutors held furtive meetings Sunday evening—"a bad sign,"
says CBS chief legal analyst Andrew Cohen. True. The next day
Jackson's lawyer Thomas Mesereau trapped the accuser in several
inconsistencies, including the admission that he twice told the
dean Jackson "didn