Jury rules that Michael did not steal the song 'Dangerous.'

Jet, March 7, 1994

For the second time, pop superstar Michael Jackson has been exonerated of accusations that he stole someone else's song.

It took a U.S. District Court jury a little over three hours to find Jackson innocent of copyright infringement for his hit album, Dangerous.

Denver songwriter Crystal Cartier had alleged in a lawsuit that Jackson stole the song from her after hearing a demo tape.

Cartier claimed to have written the song in 1985, revised it a few years later, and gave a tape of it to a Jackson aide in 1988. She said she later copyrighted it in 1991.

Jackson said no one helped him write the song and he denied ever hearing Cartier's song before she filed her lawsuit.

On Jan. 12, a Los Angeles jury ruled in Jackson's favor in a similar lawsuit involving his hits Thriller, The Girl Is Mine, and We Are The World.