Michael Jackson Trial Receives Inside Look in Trailer for Netflix Documentary: Watch

Netflix has released a new trailer for the upcoming documentary Michael Jackson: The Verdict ahead of its premiere on June 3rd. Watch it below.

Coming from showrunner David Herman and director Nick Green, the docuseries consists of three 50-minute episodes and promises to “dissect” Jackson’s 2003 child molestation trial and acquittal through “key players who were inside the courtroom,” according to the official logline.

As seen in the dramatic clip, this will include jurors, eyewitnesses, accusers, and defenders. “When this supposed victim was on the stand, the thing that struck me was, ‘Wow, he’s just a kid,'” one man says. “It was very moving testimony,” adds a woman. “It really got to me.”

The trailer concludes with the teaser: “Finally, we’re going to get some answers.”

“It has been 20 years since the trial of Michael Jackson in which he was found not guilty. Yet, to this day, controversy still rages,” reads a statement provided to Netflix’s Tudum. “No cameras were allowed in court, and so the public’s view of the facts at the time were filtered by commentators and presented piecemeal. It was time to take a forensic look at the trial as a whole.”

Michael Jackson: The Verdict stands in stark contrast with Antoine Fuqua’s blockbuster biopic Michael, starring Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson. Ending in 1988 with the King of Pop’s Bad world tour, Michael required $15 million in reshoots after it was discovered that a legal settlement made by his estate forbade any depiction of events surrounding molestation allegations made against Jackson in 1993.

Following Michael’s release, Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed said the movie’s success showed “people don’t care that [Jackson] was a child molester.”