Leno "Stands Up" For Jackson

Jay Leno has been using Michael Jackson's child-molestation case to his advantage by cracking jokes and mocking the trial during the opening monologues of his "Tonight Show." Then why did the comedian testify for the defense of the pop star on Tuesday? Although it seems like Jackson's defense has been summoning random "friends" lately in a desperate attempt to save their client, Leno's testimony is valid because he has had several phone conversations with Jackson's 13-year old accuser. The host typically calls twenty sick children a week and began receiving voicemail messages from the Jackson's accuser back in 2000 when he was a 10-years old cancer patient. According to Leno, the boy called the comedian his hero. "I'm not Batman," Leno said, according to reports. "It seemed a little unusual." This got Leno thinking. "It sounded suspicious when a young person got overly effusive," he said. "It just didn't click with me." In one instance, Leno claims he heard the voice of an unknown person in the background; Jackson's defense argued that the accuser's mother was telling him what to say. Leno's testimony is very crucial and may be one factor that convinces the jurors to free Jackson from serving twenty years in prison.