Posted on 06/13/2005 12:36:01 PM PDT by Dog
Just breaking...
I missed that ONE!
Juror 1
White male, 62 years old
Juror 1 is a retired civil engineer. He has been married for 13 years and has 3 grown children. He has taken a law class, and says he might be influenced by the media. He said he has trouble accepting testimony from a child witness on “face value alone.”
Juror 2: FOREPERSON
Hispanic male, 63 years old
Juror 2 worked as a school counselor before retiring. He has two grown sons, and knows nothing about the Jackson case. He says media plays “too big a role” in the stories they cover. He has had cancer in the family.
Juror 3
White female, 50 years old
She works with horses as a rider and trainer. She is married with no children, but has volunteered for a cause related to child advocacy. She owns two Jackson CDs. She feels that media is not accurate and that there was a spin on the Martin Bashir documentary. She has had cancer within the family.
Juror 4
White female, 51 years old
Juror 4 is a retired high school math teacher. She has two teenage children. She likes Jackson’s music and used to dance to it when she was younger. She is critical of the media, and is aware of the current and 1993 case.
Juror 5
White female, 79 years old
She has two kids in their 50s. Her husband, son, and father have all served in the military. One of her grandsons is has been arrested on a minor sex offense; the smaller grandchildren like to copy Jackson’s dance moves. A casual acquaintance, a JC Penney clerk who sells her perfume, once worked at the Neverland Ranch.
Juror 6
White female, 22 years old
She is unmarried, but has a partner with whom she has two small children. She’s a physical therapy aide in a nursing home. She says she is not a fan and that Jackson’s music was “a little bit before her time.”
Juror 7
White male, 21 years old
Juror no. 7 is a single college student, who is wheelchair-bound because of cerebral palsy. He visited Neverland Ranch when he was 6-years-old as part of a cerebral palsy group. He said Jackson has been mistreated by the media. He also wants to be a journalist.
Juror 8
Female, 42 years old
Juror 8 is a special education aide. She has been married for 22 years and has 4 children. She has spent six years in the military. She believes children often, and says two of her nieces of her were molested by her brother-in-law. She has also taken a criminal justice course, and has had history of cancer in the family. She likes Jackson’s music.
Juror 9
Asian female, 39 years old
She is married to a local TV reporter and works for the government as an office worker. She has no children. She has read about the case and is aware of the 1993 case.
Juror 10
Hispanic female, 45 years old
She works at a local food market and has three sons. She thinks Jackson is a wonderful entertainer and grew up around his music. Her husband was has a run-in with the law; he was arrested for drunk driving and drugs in the past.
Juror 11
White male, 20 years old
Juror 11 works as an assistant head cashier, and prefers “The Simpsons” over the news. A family member of his worked for Jackson’s doctor; and he’s met Michael Jackson
Juror 12
White female, 44 years old
She’s a divorced social worker with one grown son. Her ex-husband was a police officer. She is says she would feel cautious about a child’s testimony; and that media does not have an impact on the justice system. She thinks Jackson is a great entertainer.
Agreed.
But it was also proven too that the victim was an out of control brat who was caught numerous times sneaking into the wine cellar on his own to get a drink too.
LOL!
The juror's reasonable doubt would go right out the window if their kids or grandkids had to spend the nite with MJ.
What part did I paraphrase incorrectly?
Good grief. A dream jury for Jackson.
"Bugger.."
Bugger...Buggery...was that one of the charges?
More proof that money will buy you anything in the U$A!
Mothers hide your little boys, Jacko's on the loose again...
Exactly. I'm waiting for a reporter to ask, "So will you be allowing YOUR sons/grandsons/nephews to go on sleep-overs at Neverland with Michael Jackson"???? Of course, in our celebrity-crazed culture there may still be people willing to do so....
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. BUT This statement is painting with too broad a brush. The Founding Fathers knew what it was like to have trials by a professional, a judge, who would be a "rubber stamp" for the prosecution. They didn't want to leave cases brought by the Crown decided by those appointed by that same Crown.
I have spent 25 years both prosecuting and defending criminal cases and believe in the jury system in this country. Yes, there are cases where it seems justice is not done, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
I hope if you are ever called to jury duty, you will inform the judge and lawyers your opinion about juries in voir dire. Not just the guilty seek juries. The right to a jury was important enough to be put in the Bill of Rights. Don't throw out a sacred right because you don't like the result in a couple of high profile cases.
Most people don't understand how pedophiles work, that they use positions of trust, where they'll be around children, in order to molest at will. You don't want to believe that the scout master or the minister or the man next door is a pedophile, but they're teachers, work with the handicapped...the most vulnerable. They come from all walks of life, and they're truly monsters among us. This jury threw in the towel. I think those two women who wept openly wanted to find him guilty and gave up under pressure. When asked why she cried, she shifted her eyes, looked very uncomfortable, and finally said, "The trial was finally over, and we were emotional." She lied.
I didn't hear that testimony about the victim. But didn't other witnesses testify that MJ provided alcohol to other minors?
"My God, he's going to go scot-free..."
MJ is no Scot...and there is nothing free in Scot-land.
Lordy. Major nightmare. What the heck happened? .. and I guess I should never let my umbrella policy expire.
They testimony was that they saw the kids drinking from the can that MJ has HIS wine in.
No positive proof that MJ was giving the kids the ine that I recall.
Thanks for those mini-bios.......entirely too many connections to MJ imo. Not one juror could give a specific piece of evidence that convinced them to vote not guilty. But they "worked hard". Billie Jeff used to say that too.
No wonder Jackson and his lawyer wanted this jury..
"Whaddya say we all meet him at Neverland and throw him a little celebration?"
Send your kids...he'd l o v e to celebrate with them.
I thought an airline employee testified she saw MJ drinking wine from a coke can and that he was giving drinks to minors? Am I incorrect?
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