By Audra D.S. Burch and Howard Cohen
McClatchy Newspapers
In the year without Michael Joseph Jackson, the pop star’s legacy has come into sharper focus, his art, music, magic liberally extracted from his dizzying celebrity and troubled private life.
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The year of astounding craziness since his death on June 25, 2009 – his cardiologist’s involuntary manslaughter trial, family feuds, the epic yet futile discussion about the paternity of his three children – has not dimmed the light that was Michael Jackson.