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Tom Sneddon the prosecutor who tried twice to nail Michael Jackson on child molestation charges has died on Saturday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after a battle against cancer, Patrick McKinley, a retired assistant district attorney for Santa Barbara County who worked with Sneddon for more than three decades, said Sunday. Sneddon was 73.
Sneddon famously lost the case against Jackson in 2005, in which Jackson was accused of plying his alleged victim with wine, sexually assaulting him at Neverland and holding his family hostage.
But Sneddon went after Jackson more than a decade before, trying to prosecute the singer for allegedly molesting a boy at Neverland. Jackson made the boy’s civil case go away at a cost of $20 million and the boy and his family refused to cooperate with Sneddon, so the case went away.
Sneddon survived with 9 kids.
