On the day Michael Jackson's fans rewarded their respects with tears, tributes, songs and dance, Jackson's father filed a wrongful casualty grievance against the surgeon emotional with bountiful his son a lethal dose of drugs.
Joe Jackson's visit to a national courtroom in Los Angeles, while thousands of people were filing through the gates of a near graveyard to bewail the man they call the King of Pop, punctuated once again just how brilliantly the star that was Michael Jackson's life had burned, and how swiftly it had been extinguished.