Overview
- Netflix released the trailer on Wednesday and announced that Michael Jackson: The Verdict, a three-part series with roughly 50-minute episodes, will premiere globally on June 3.
- The series is produced by Candle True Stories, created by showrunner David Herman, executive produced by Fiona Stourton, David Herman and James Goldston, and directed by Nick Green.
- Filmmakers told Netflix’s Tudum they interviewed jurors, witnesses, prosecutors, defense attorneys and media who covered the courtroom and that the project was approached as a strict historical, forensic account.
- The doc revisits Jackson’s 2003 indictment on multiple criminal counts and his 2005 acquittal while noting the long-term public debate over his legacy and the fact that Jackson died in 2009 from drug intoxication administered by his doctor.
- The series is presented as a response to recent portrayals that either avoided or amplified the criminal allegations and could reshape public understanding by bringing first‑hand courtroom testimony to a case that was never filmed.