Posted on 04/07/2005 12:25:46 PM PDT by ex-Texan
Geraldo thinks he's innocent and since he promised never to sleep with little boys again....we should just forget the whole thing.
So you think that MJ sleeping with young boys is beautiful, not sexual?
Are you referring to the youth minister who testified the other day. Newly married young man who is the son of a maid who worked for MJ
Oh, really?
Yes really. if I were on the jury I would be legally obligated to presume innocence. As a private citizen, not involved in that legal process I am free to presume anything I want concerning guilt or innocence. That has been pointed out to you by different people on this thread. What's hard about it?
Of course he approaced low life people.
Wonder how Michael's defense lawyer is going to tear apart this one? After all, what can he say he saw instead of what he knew he saw?
This is such horsesh*t. Everyone who sees a future cameo for themselves on Access Hollywood is coming out with every fish story you can imagine. It's all bunk. He will be acquitted. They should throw the Mother in prison.
A little contradictory aren't you. If nothing happened why should the mother be thrown in prison.
I don't know - another poster mentioned a youth minister being one of the credible witnesses - but that sounds right - do you have info on his testimony?
He's the young man who said tickling turned into touching...over the clothes and then under the clothes.
He's gonna flee the country before the verdict is read.
Ahem...curious but appropriate choice of words.
But, do you think he will get off???
Ugh........sorry I asked
Jacko's problem is that his attorneys did a really good job of imepeaching the prosecution's prime witness and closely realted parties, yet that testimony on direct remains on the record and in the jurors' minds. Their problem is deciding whether or not to believe it. All of this evidence of prior bad acts with other boys powerfully undermines the effects of what was a very good cross examination and enhances the credibility of the complaining witness. I'm beginning to think Jaco will loose.
Do you mean they will cut him loose....or that he will lose?
That's the real problem. He's undoubtedly guilty of terminal wierdness. However, that doesn't make him guilty of child molestation, and a lot of the witnesses against him are very dubious characters. This is nothing like the overwhelming case the Swiftvets made against John Kerry.
but geraldo says MJ is innocent. so he must be innocent, right? I mean, Geraldo cant be wrong.
If the jurors in this case respect evidence, they're going to have long and hard deliberations. So far all the witnesses against Jackson have been seriously impeached, but there are so many of them telling similar stories. Jacko's wierdness works powerfully against him, but terminal wierdness is not a crime. This is not an OJ or Mendez brothers case where a clearly guilty man walked and another two clearly guilty men almost walked. There are lots of real doubts and conflicts.
Lose. By error.
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