Posted on 06/13/2005 2:30:21 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian
Freak walks and joins likes of OJ. Another chapter in American unJustice! Screw the kids, give them alcohol and you are free American "hero".
True enough. This was the best case they could put together? I don't expect victims and their families to be lily-white but this was a suspicious lot at best.
I think this was a very weak case. I am not at all surprised by the verdict.
Not too weak if you settle out of court with one family for $50,000,000. I don't believe anyone would have settled for that if not guilty.
Don't let it get personal. The law is not supposed to be personal. It's calm, objective and blind.
The prosecution didn't make its case to the jury. That might have had something to do with the victims' family, who were suspect.
Yes, if there is any question about the facts, then an acquital is exactly the way the system is supposed to work. Blackstone was right - "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
He is black
Any questions?
Of course not.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
If you knew (not merely stongly suspected) the accused was guilty of the crime would you still maintain that "the system worked" if a "not guilty" verdict were reached? My point is that occasionally the system doesn't work. .....the O.J. case is a prime example.
As far as the MJ case is concerned my original post on this thread dealt exclusively with the count of giving alcohol to minors.
Why not? Bubba did.
Seriously, the prosecution's case was an unconvincing, theatrical mess and never proved Jackson's guilt. Jackson is pretty obviously odd , but that isn't a crime yet.
The jury system is designed to make the state prove its case; if it fails to do so and the jury finds for the defendant, then it worked. The object is not to find the guilty 'guilty' but to find the not guilty 'not guilty'.
Ideally, of course, it's to find both; but in a fallible world, we choose to err on the side of caution.
It's possible that --
outside of FR! -- Muslims
just might be correct
in thinking the West
is hopelessly decadent
and doomed to hell fire . . .
AMEN!
But hey, he's a celebrity and celebrities aren't held to the same standards that we schlumps out here in fly-over country are!
And what is the moral for all those Freepers comparing MJ to OJ?
MJ was harassed by a prosecutor who made a career out of this child abuse charge. The prosecutor is the one who belongs in prison.
MJ is obviously a weird person who acts is if he were a child. But this ought not to be a crime in America.
ML/NJ
The freak was Sneddon. He had a long standing personal vendetta against a weird popstar & was naive enough to think he could use a family of experienced scam artists to convince a sane jury. Doesn't work. The only crime commited here was Sneddon's diversion of the sheriffs dept for his own personal vendetta. Jackson = Not Guilty.
I don't care either. What a waste of space here on FreeRepublic.
Well, that mom sure had a habit of directing her "goofy" behavior at celebrities and their money.
Grut's absolutly correct.
Guilty people going free doesn't mean that the system isn't working, it only means that the prosecution didn't prove its case.
The only way a verdict tells us that the system isn't working is when an innocent man is convicted. Our legal system is invariably slanted far in the direction of the accused's rights, since the prosecution has the weight of the State behind it.
This verdict may not be correct. But it in no way tells us anything about the state of our justice system.
Agreed, but did you hear this jury's (barely coherent) post-verdict comments? All emotion. They despised the accuser's mother, and made no attempt to hide it: "I thought, don't you snap your fingers at me, lady."
A less competent bunch would be difficult to come by.
First of all, you think that the Founders never had idiots on their juries?
Second of all, I didn't believe the accuser's mother either. I haven't seen interviews with the jurors, but the prosecution is the one who put these witnesses on the stand. Their case, they died by it.
The verdict still fails to tell us that the system doesn't work. Quite the opposite.
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