SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Jurors in the Michael Jackson trial learned more details Wednesday about how authorities first learned of child molestation allegations against the pop star.
The testimony came from the same lawyer and psychologist involved in similar charges made against him a decade ago.
Wednesday's court appearance by Dr. Stan Katz, a Beverly Hills psychologist who also treated a boy who accused the singer of a sex crime a decade ago, was widely anticipated to be a key moment in the trial.
But he was on the stand for only about an hour, after truncated questioning by the prosecution did not give the defense much room to grill him on cross-examination.
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville had ruled earlier that Katz couldn't tell jurors whether he thought Jackson's teenage accuser and his family were credible, or whether he believed the events they described actually happened.
Katz testified he conducted eight interviews in May and June 2003 with the accuser and his mother, brother and sister. He did not provide details of what they told him.
After the interviews, however, he said he informed Larry Feldman -- the attorney who hired him to "help sort things out" with the family -- that they needed to report abuse allegations to authorities.
The family told the state Division of Children and Family Services and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, which launched an investigation that led to Jackson's indictment.
In a related development, the lawyer for Christopher Eric Carter, a key prosecution witness who has been charged in a string of Nevada armed robberies, said Wednesday he has advised the former Jackson bodyguard not to testify at the trial.
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