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((short description|American lawyer and politician))
((refimprove article|date=November 2014))
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((Infobox person
| image           =
| name            = Thomas W Sneddon Jr.
| occupation      = 33rd [[District Attorney]] of [[Santa Barbara County, California|Santa Barbara County]] (retired)
| birth_name      = Thomas William Sneddon
| birth_date      = May 26, 1941
| birth_place     = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| death_date      = ((Death date and age|2014|11|1|1941|5))
| death_place     = [[Santa Barbara, California]], U.S.
| spouse          = Pamela Sneddon
| children        = 9
))

'''Thomas William Sneddon Jr.''' (May 26, 1941 – November 1, 2014) was the [[district attorney]] of [[Santa Barbara County, California]]. He had more than two decades of experience as a District Attorney, and more than three decades of experience as a prosecutor. He is best known for leading two investigations of [[Michael Jackson]] on [[child sexual abuse]] allegations in 1993 and 2005. His most famous case was when he was prosecuting child molestation charges against Jackson in the trial [[People v. Jackson]] in 2005, at the end of which Jackson was acquitted.<ref name="nytimes">((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/us/jackson-prosecutor-tells-of-abuse-and-conspiracy.html|title=Jackson Prosecutor Tells of Abuse and Conspiracy|last=Broder|first=John M.|date=March 1, 2005|work=The New York Times|accessdate=November 2, 2014))</ref>

==Life and career==
Sneddon was born in Los Angeles in 1941<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-tom-sneddon-20141103-story.html|title=Tom Sneddon dies at 73; D.A. Best known for prosecuting Michael Jackson|website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 3, 2014))</ref> and grew up in Northern California. In 1963 Sneddon graduated from the [[University of Notre Dame]], where he was on the boxing team, and in 1966 from [[UCLA Law School]], where he met his wife. From 1967 to 1969 he served in the [[U.S. Army]].<ref name="nytimes"/>

From November 1969 until May 1977, Sneddon served as a Deputy District Attorney in [[Santa Barbara County, California|Santa Barbara County]]. In 1977, he was promoted to the position of Supervisor of Criminal Operations. On January 3, 1983, Sneddon became the 33rd [[District Attorney]] of [[Santa Barbara County]] and was re-elected without opposition for five terms. In 2010 he retired from the DA's office.<ref name="nytimes"/>

A father of 9 children, Sneddon was Chair of the Committee for Child Support Enforcement since its inception in 1991. He was presented with a "Director's Award" in 1995 by the California Family Support Council. A year later he was appointed co-chair of the National District Attorney's Child Support Committee and invited by the [[US Attorney General]] [[Janet Reno]] to be a member of the Presidential Commission's Federal Task Force to review and enhance federal criminal prosecutions for failure to pay child support. ((citation needed|date=November 2014))

==Prosecution of Michael Jackson==
His most publicized cases were his two investigations of [[Michael Jackson]] on [[child sexual abuse]] allegations in 1993 and 2003, 2004, and 2005. The first criminal investigation was closed with no charges; Jackson’s insurance settled a related [[civil suit]] with a civil settlement of over $15 million to the plaintiff [[Jordan Chandler]], who ceased cooperating with investigators after two [[grand juries]] returned a refusal to indict Jackson.

The second set of allegations against Jackson resulted in a [[People v. Jackson|trial]] which ended on June 13, 2005, with Jackson's acquittal.<ref>((cite news|first= Matthews |last= Davis |date= June 6, 2005 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4612897.stm |title= Trial health problems for Jackson |publisher= BBC News Online |accessdate= May 31, 2015))</ref><ref>((cite news|title= Jackson cleared of child molestation |newspaper= The Guardian |agency= Associated Press |url= https://www.theguardian.com/jackson/story/0,15819,1505806,00.html |date= June 13, 2005 |accessdate= May 31, 2015))</ref>

Sneddon was subject of allegations of prosecutorial misconduct over steps he took investigating Jackson, including attempting to plant a boy’s fingerprints on an exhibit by having him handle it during grand jury testimony before having a fingerprint analysis performed on it.<ref> https://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/26/spilbor.jackson.sneddon/index.html</ref><ref> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-thomson/one-of-the-most-shameful_b_610258.html</ref> Despite investigating Jackson for over a decade, no evidence against him was ever found according to the FBI. <ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/Michael%20Jackson</ref>

In 1995 Jackson wrote a song about him, titled "[[D.S. (song)|D.S.]]"; Sneddon denied ever listening to the song.<ref name = "Sneddon work profile">((cite web|title=In Profile:Thomas W. (Tom) Sneddon, Jr.|publisher=National District Attorneys Association|url=http://www.ndaa.org/ndaa/profile/tom_sneddon_jan_feb_2003.html|date=February 2003|accessdate=August 11, 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080102103101/http://www.ndaa.org/ndaa/profile/tom_sneddon_jan_feb_2003.html |archivedate = January 2, 2008))</ref>

Jackson reportedly kept an "enemy list" on which Sneddon appeared, along with Rabbi [[Shmuley Boteach]], illusionist [[Uri Geller]], music executive [[Tommy Mottola]], attorney [[Gloria Allred]], and [[Janet Arvizo]], mother of a Jackson accuser.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5476786|title=Uri Geller, Shmuley Boteach are on Michael Jackson's 'list of enemies'|website=Haaretz|date=September 18, 2009))</ref>

==Death==
Sneddon died on November 1, 2014. He was 73.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.martindale.com/Thomas-William-Sneddon-Jr/261865-lawyer.htm Thomas William Sneddon Jr. profile], Martindale.com; accessed November 2, 2014.

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