Santa Maria- Jurors in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial have been shown pornographic magazines, DVDs and books that were seized from the pop star’s bedroom.

Although prosecutors did not link the sexually explicit material directly to their case against Jackson, the accuser and his brother have said the 46-year-old entertainer showed them pornography in his bedroom.

According to three police witnesses, the material was found in two briefcases in Jackson’s bedroom, a box at the foot of his bed, a nightstand, a plastic bag, a computer case next to his bathroom sink, on the edge of his bathtub, in a bathroom closet and stacked on a television.

The collection included magazines with titles such as Barely Legal and Teenage, which feature young women meant to appear underage.

More mainstream publications were also featured, such as Penthouse and erotic books by well-known photographers.

Most of the magazines and videotapes featured grown women, but Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Deputy Karen Shepherd testified to finding a book titled Camp Cove, Photos of Sydney Men and another titled Dress up: Playacts and Fantasies of Childhood.

Among the videotapes seized in the police raid was one titled Believe It or Not, which promised a variety of unusual sex acts.

On cross-examination by Jackson defence attorney Robert Sanger, each of the police witnesses agreed the material was legal to possess and that the singer’s young accuser had not remembered seeing any particular magazine or DVD.

In fact, the officers conceded, some of the magazines and DVDs were not published or released until after the young boy and his family left Jackson’s Neverland ranch for the last time in March 2003.

Jackson, who came to court dressed in an electric blue jacket, satin pants, an aquamarine vest and waist chain, is charged with molesting a then 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003.

He is also accused of plying the boy with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, extortion and false imprisonment.

Jackson, who has pleaded innocent, faces more than two decades in prison if he is convicted on all 10 criminal counts.

The Age posts: Michael Jackson’s reading habits in the privacy of his Neverland Ranch bedroom included an Australian book: Camp Cove: Photos of Sydney Men.

The volume, which features pictures of naked men posing on the shores of Sydney Harbour, was in a parcel of evidence tendered at Jackson’s child sex trial in a California court today.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Deputy Karen Shepherd testified to finding Camp Cove: Photos of Sydney Men, and another title, Dress up: Playacts and Fantasies of Childhood in a police raid on Jackson’s luxury home.

The material – including pornographic but legally available magazines and DVDs – was seized from the pop star’s bedroom and could bolster the testimony of his young accuser, Gavin Arvizo.

Prosecutors have not linked the material directly to their case against Jackson.

But the accuser and his younger brother, Star Arvizo, have said the 46-year-old entertainer showed them pornography in Jackson’s bedroom.

According to three police witnesses, the material was found in two briefcases in the bedroom, a box at the foot of his bed, a nightstand, a plastic bag, a computer case next to his bathroom sink, on the edge of his Jacuzzi-style bathtub, in a bathroom closet and stacked on a television.

It included magazines – with titles such as Barely Legal and Teenage – which feature young women meant to appear underage, along with more mainstream publications such as Penthouse and erotic books by well-known photographers.

Most of the magazines and videotapes featured grown women. Among the videotapes seized in the police raid was one titled Believe It or Not, which promised a variety of unusual sex acts.

On cross-examination by Jackson defence attorney Robert Sanger, each of the police witnesses agreed the material was legal to possess and that the singer’s young accuser had not remembered seeing any particular magazine or DVD.

In fact, the officers conceded, some of the magazines and DVDs were not published or released until after the young boy and his family left Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch for the last time in March 2003.

In one instance, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Detective Victor Alvarez was unable to confirm the release date of a DVD in late March 2003 because the print on the label was too small – until Jackson lent him his reading glasses from his seat at the defence table.

The entertainer, who came to court dressed in an electric blue jacket, satin pants, an aquamarine vest and waist chain, is charged with molesting then 13-year-old Arvizo in February or March 2003.

He is also accused of plying the boy with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, extortion and false imprisonment.

Jackson has pleaded innocent.

He faces more than two decades in prison if he is convicted on all 10 criminal counts.

Also today, AP reported that a detective testified the Gavin Arvizo told police he thought the singer had molested him five to seven times but could only remember the details of two occasions and became emotional as he spoke.

“He was fine with talking to us,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Sergeant Steve Robel Robel said of the teenage boy’s initial interview. “When I got into the molestation acts I noticed a change in (his) demeanor.

He became very quiet, folded his arms and sank down into his chair. … He even became choked up.”