Jurors in Michael Jackson's sex abuse trial were expected to resume their deliberations on Monday as the pop star waited at his Neverland Valley Ranch for a verdict that could clear his name or brand him a convicted child molester.

Spokeswoman Raymone Bain has said Jackson intends to wait out the verdict at Neverland, surrounded by friends and family members and relaxing as best he can considering the gravity of the situation.

"He's going to probably be wanting to pull his hair out," Bain said.

While the jury took the weekend off, the apparently ailing Jackson triggered a media frenzy on Sunday when he made his fourth trip to the hospital since the trial began four months ago and his second in the past week.

The 46-year-old singer, who in recent days has appeared shaky and frail as he left court, was driven from Neverland to a nearby hospital and spent about five hours being treated for what a spokeswoman described as a recurring back problem.

Jackson's security detail went to great lengths to hide him as he left the hospital on Sunday evening, parking a black sports utility vehicle with tinted windows on a sidewalk just feet from the front doors and smashing into a small bench in the process.

Hospital staff erected a screen and draped bed sheets to keep reporters and Jackson fans from catching even a glimpse of the entertainer as he climbed into the car and scuffles broke out in the street as photographers clamored for a picture.

Jackson is charged with molesting a boy, then 13, at Neverland in February or March of 2003, plying the young cancer patient with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, extortion and false imprisonment.

The man who once crowned himself King of Pop faces more than two decades in prison if he is convicted on all 10 counts of a Santa Barbara County grand jury indictment.

Jurors were handed the case by Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville on Friday afternoon and spent about two hours behind closed doors before quitting for the weekend. They must consider the testimony of 140 witnesses and sift through about 600 items of evidence in reaching a verdict.

Legal experts say the molestation charges rely almost entirely on the credibility of the 15-year-old boy who says that Jackson masturbated him at least twice after nights of heavy drinking at Neverland.

One of the last images the eight women and four men saw before starting their deliberations was a freeze frame of the young boy, slumped in his chair and looking uncomfortable, as he told police in a July 2003 videotaped interview that Jackson had molested him.

Prosecutor Ron Zonen showed the videotape as he made his final argument that Jackson was a serial pedophile who used his Peter Pan persona and kid-friendly ranch to lure young boys into his bed.

Defence attorney Tom Mesereau countered that Jackson was the naive victim of a family of hardened liars and con artists.