Posted on 06/14/2005 1:53:54 AM PDT by Mo1
I never thought of that before ... but I think you are correct
I have never understood the cult like actions of people towards celebrities
I had never read that short story but have read Anderson years ago. Thanks, it was compelling.
I hate to say it, but the jury apparently did what they were supposed to, based on a reasonable doubt. I think MJ's guilty, but I was not on that panel. Therefore, my opinion means naught.
From what I've heard of their "reasoning" I have to agree. There seems to be no one on the jury who had an ounce of common sense. They were determined to let Jackson go free.
If you found your young son sleeping in the same bed with an adult man, what would you assume was going on?
Nevermind, it's Michael Jackson, and he is just showing them how much he loves them with warm milk and cookies after wards.
His defenders paint a picture of a persecuted Saint.
Great story. Thanks for the link.
Umm its still wrong, MJ should have slept in one of the other ten thousand rooms in that side show called neverland. As an Adult you dont sleep in bed with kids who are not your own..
I think Jackson is an idiot for phrasing this in such a way that it sounds like he's spooning ten-year-olds.
No hes not an idiot hes sick. Is he a pedophile? I would think so but it seems it has not been pr oven. Is he mentally Ill you bet...
I have the same system you do. The man clearly molested this little boy and others.
Just because the mother is unlikeable does not mean Jackson did not hurt these children.
I cannot understand why so many people on this thread think justice was served in this case. I wonder how many of the same think O.J. is innocent for the same reasons.
My other point is, just because a jury voted unanimously for something does not mean it is a just verdict. "The jury listened to all the evidence, blah, blah, blah...." well sometimes lack of intelligence and reasoning skills, and over-emotionality, pandered to by racial guilt or vengeance, leads to injust verdicts.
As I believe was the case here. And Robert Blake. And O.J.
Me sleeping in the same bed with my own son is a lot different than than an unrelated man getting my boy in the same bed to sleep with him. And actually, either my boy or I would probabbly choose a floor to sleep on rather than the same bed at this point in our lives.
I'm not sure how anyone could justify a 40 year old man in the same bed with a 13 year old kid is simply wrong on its face. Qualifies as "lewd behavior with a child" in my book. Felony? Ho. That gets reserved for an actual proven sexual assault or sex act. This jury should have at least sent MJ a message - "While you're on this planet, buddy, stay out of the same bed that an unrelated kid is sleeping in".
IMHO, this rises to an equivalent level of, say, Pee Wee Herman, pleasuring himself in a movie theater showing gay porn, two homos engaged in a consensual sex act in a park restroom, or the guy exposing himself in a grocery store. Not a felony, but against the standards and mores of our society, and a misdemeanor.
It would be great if he gets busted in Bangkok. He wouldnt get off if caught. He would have to do real time, in a real prison!
The same thing happened with OJ.
The prosecutors spent way too much time on DNA evidence that was way over the heads of these minimally-intelligent people on the jury. And the domestic violence angle did not fly either.
If they had stuck to simple blood evidence-- blood in the Bronco, blood drops in the hall BEFORE the vials were collected, OJ's blood at the crime scene, etc, they would have had a better chance. Of course the worse blunder in criminal history was the glove, because the jury was too stupid to figure out that blood would make the glove shrink, number one, and that trying to put a tight fitting glove over latex is impossible. There were enormous mistakes in that trial, but the worst mistake was the location of the trial and that miserable jury pool.
It seems you cannot win with celebrity-struck dunderheads anyway. It is pathetic.
I'll stand corrected on that if I'm wrong, but that's how someone explained it to me this morning.
No, it's warm milk and cookies first. That's part of the seduction.
For the afterwards he throws $100 bills at them.
Not quite accurate. Of course there have been thousands of inaccurate statements regarding this case and California.
I can quickly think of one celebrity, and no doubt there are more.
In 1990, Christian Brando shot and killed the lover of Brando's daughter in in Beverly Hills. Christian Brando was eventually found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years.
You'll get no defense of Jackson from me. However, as I understand it, the definition of "lewd act" requires some sort of inappropriate physical contact. "Just sleeping" doesn't qualify. Juries are not allowed to redefine crimes to send a message.
I happen not to have a son, but if I did MJ wouldn't get anywhere near him.
I think we'll agree to disagree on this point, but I'll point out that I think there's a difference between inviting someone to your bed and simply crashing with them after a late night.
Both are inappropriate..
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