Posted on 06/13/2005 4:29:30 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Michael Jackson Moonwalks Through Ten Count Verdict
7:26 EST
06/13/2005
Douglas Maher-All Headline News Staff Reporter
Santa Maria,CA (AHN)-What could only be described as a surreal scene out of a Hollywood movie, "The King of Pop" aka Michael Jackson was found not-guilty on all ten counts the music superstar was facing.
Shocking to most legal analysts on television who had been for months calling the trial a done deal and that Jackson was going to jail for at least something, Jackson's legal team proved the case to the only people it mattered to in the end, "The Jury".
As Jackson lead attorney Tom Mesereau waited outside for the singer and his 4 SUV caravan to arrive, he checked his watch with what appeared to be nervous tension as the usually tardy client was living up to his reputation again of arriving on his own time.
Finally, the Jackson clan arrived.
All of them were there from father Joe to sister Janet, as a crucial support system for their little brother Michael who if he had been found guilty faced up to twenty three years in prison.
As the jury was seated it became a familiar scene as many Americans have come to know. Waiting on a high profile case to come to a conclusion on live global television. Whether it was shades of OJ Simpson, Robert Blake, Scott Peterson, or William Kennedy Smith. It did not matter at the end of the day as thousands of fans packed the streets in support of their music hero, in their eyes he has been not guilty since day one.
The charges were read via an audio hook up in the courtroom for media and the public to hear. Judge Rodney Melville had run a tight ship for the entire trial and was not about to let cameras into his courtroom to play out any unnecessary drama.
The verdict counts came in fast and furious. In the blink of an eye it was over and Michael Jackson was on his way back to Neverland to celebrate with family and friends at his spacious carnival theme park ranch in which he calls home.
Martin Stock, the founder of a Michael Jackson fan club in Germany told the Associated Press, ""The whole trial was laughable and Michael was treated inhumanly. I think people were trying to throw him into prison to get at his money."
Psychic and Jackson friend, Uri Geller,I'm trembling, this is so important. He did not let down his fans and all the people that love him. "He went through hell and now the nightmare is over."
The Rev.Al Sharpton who is also a Jackson friend and spokesman said "Justice has been served today,we still live in a country where a man is innocent until proven guilty."
It is not known what Jackson's future plans are but an offer from Donald Trump was put on the table two months ago to play Las Vegas for three years. An offer that would pay the singer in excess of $200 million dollars just for the performance rights alone.
I heard some of the jurors today. Very emotional people. Someone in that group "led" them right to that verdict. It was a Michael Jackson pity party.
They say Michael lost a lot of weight. I can't think of an excuse for that, can you?? Such a game player!
His celebrity and the melanometrics of the case, will preclude him from ever being tried again for anything in "The People's Republic of California".
Enjoy your japanimation. I'll stick with Hot 8.
Hope they don't forget to send them with plenty of Vaseline.
If you are found guilty in the Kingdom of the Most High, you will pray for mere "jail"...
You wrote:I'm waiting with baited breath to hear how the 23 yr old, 1993 victim's testimony wasn't "believable" by the jury as well. I hear he broke down in tears when told to relive his molestation for the courtroom.
I guess he wasn't believable either.
My Reply: I would not give him a lot of credibility after all isn't he the one who got like 20 Million or something? Now ther is a real big incentive to drop crocodile tears.
You wrote:I wish he would move to France. He could get a house in the same neighborhood as Roman Polansky.
My Reply: I think he is better suited for California. We get more than enough despots and former dictators, Michael needs to stay home and sleep in his own bed, ALONE!
Not being in the courtroom, I don't think the prosecution made the case either. I doubt if I would have voted to convict. The vast perponderance of the prosecution witnesses were not credible. I still remember Jay leno saying the kid sounded scripted. Kids can be great actors sometimes.
To deny a person's freedom, to put them in jail, it is up to the state to prove their case. They had tons of opportunity, money and resources and there were not credible witnesses to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that MJ did molest this boy. Celebrat r no celebraty the prosecution did not prove their case. There was no smoking gun.
And the only "child" pornography was a book given to michael I think by the author. He inscribed it with something like, I know you never had a childhood, yadda, yadda, yadda. If there was kiddie porn around I think the jury might have taken that into account. But there wasn't any. As for adult porn I read here on FR on a different thread that 12% of all website are porn websites, so ther are an awful lot of porn consumers who are not out molesting bosy. So I don't think you can make a correlation between adult porn and pedophilia. It was a weak case and the jury would not convict and deny anyone theri freedom on such a weak case. IMHO.
Yep, I agree with you. The grifter family sunk the prosecution's case. As the prosecutor said, he couldn't pick the victim. You can't convict M.J. of being weird if it isn't against the law, and not in the charges. They had to prove the charges, and didn't.
"Now ther is a real big incentive to drop crocodile tears."
With all due respect, if I was the person who collected that kind of money, I'd have ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to cry in public. Now if the kid hadn't collected yet, THAT would be a reason for theatrics.
agree with you. This case was not proven beyond a shadow of a doubt and here, in America, we don't put people in jail because they're weird.
I guess that there are different standards for "shadow of doubt" here in America. Look what they did to a lot of priest with less evidence but then again they were not all rich and white.
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