Posted on 06/13/2005 12:36:01 PM PDT by Dog
Just breaking...
I agree.
I guess I need to start working on hubby to allow me to watch Nancy Grace.
That's not what I had in mind. Not in the least.
Just for tonight, if nothing else!
It's a felony. Contributing to the deliquency of a minor. That includes providing alcohol to a minor, unless of course you're Michael Jackson.
is Rush Limbaugh a celebrity? what do you think would have happened if it were Rush Limbaugh strolling around his mansion in florida with a bunch of 12 year old boys in his bedroom.
Nope. Neither.
The woman juror said that they had a closet full of evidence, but needed more. One would wonder what that might be.
I think you're right: not if you're Michael Jackson.
The interview with the forman was amazing.
Sad... CSI should be taken off the air.
I don't believe the accuser's race had any bearing on this case but rather MJ's celebrity. IMO, had it been any other Joe Schmo sleeping with boys, one for 365 days, he would have been convicted within hours.
Saw that on the Dish Network Guide... I think I may have hubby convinced Nancy Grace rather than Greta tonite! However, hubby getting tired of MJ already. LOL
Just breaking............Saddams Hussein's lawyers in Iraq are demanding Saddam get extradited to Santa Maria,California for his upcoming trial.......
Indeed and I'm sure he regrets his appearance. BTW her exchange with Debra Opri was priceless.
I used to work for a judge who spent a lot of time in the superior court system here in GA - about 20 years.
He says that when he started on the bench, child molestation allegations were few and far between, and they were almost always true and the alleged perps found guilty. But in the last 5 years he spent on the trial court bench (about 10 years ago), he started seeing child molestation allegations brought into EVERY divorce trial. Now the courts are seeing not only false allegations brought by bitter ex-wives and ex-girlfriends (and even in a couple of cases by the ex-HUSBAND against the ex-wife), but also extortion schemes and revenge allegations by disgruntled friends/neighbors/etc.
It is not beyond the realm of probability for a grifter or grifters to latch onto somebody as obviously certifiably WEIRD as Jackson. And some prosecutors are still in the old-fashioned 15-years-ago mode that, if a child alleges molestation, it must be true.
Jackson looks like a molester to me. But my private opinion doesn't amount to a conviction in a court of law. The prosecutor has to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
I didn't follow this case too closely, but it may be that the prosecutor just didn't manage to do that, plus he was handicapped by the grifter background of the complaining witness's mom. The jury is authorized to disbelieve ALL her testimony if she is shown to have lied on some particular, they may have believed that she put her son up to it. And, of course, that does happen.
Howlin, I understand your concern that a pedophile may have dodged a bullet here. But the legal safeguards are not just there to protect the guilty - they also protect you and me if somebody with a grudge decides to run to the DA with a cooked up story and a coached child. If we start cutting corners because we "know" somebody is guilty, that's a recipe for disaster because it will put the unpopular and the different into prison or the electric chair for sure.
Well apparently not !!!!
Don't blame me for the jury's decision. The system has freed a pervert, nothing we can do about that.... except keep our own children away, and if we can't keep our own children away from a know pervert, them shame on us (as parents).
Hey Jag...Just look at the endless celeb murderers, and dumb jury's that give them passes. None have been convicted, including Bubba Clinton!!!
ONE GUESS who is appearing on LKL as we speak. Paul (I want to remain anonymous) Rodriguez.
Turn on LKL and be surprised, not!
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