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.
Waiting? Ha! Working on their books and interviews, you mean!
haha, take my post as no expression of sympathy for either oj or michael. i believe only that an unhealthy media focus is in part to blame for the lose-lose situation seen today.
At the juror press conference it was said the accuser's mother pissed them off big time and as so many of the serious counts depended upon her being credible the die was cast. They never felt the charges proven "beyond all reasonable doubt".
They'll have to catch him in the act to convict him.
Wait a sec Didn't you hear the news? MJ just annoucned that shortly after he was arrested, Tom Cruise stopped by and converted him to Scientology. MJ rid himself of his alien spirits..
Also a higher court for sending someone to jail for something he is not guilty of. Yes?
It just proves that you can get away with anything in America if you're rich and white...
My hubby and I were surprised at the verdict, like so many we felt he was guilty.
I wondered about the jurors early on, one juror has a grandson convicted of colestation, and another has a fasmily member in jail for something else...interesting!
What I do know is that the news media lawyers do not know anymore than I do about what the verdict will be. Just before the verdict was read, one TV attorney that was in the court said all jurors were looking at the judge, a second attorney in the studio said" That usualy means guilty on all couints" "Jurors do not like to look at the defendent if it is a guilty verdict" Since this trial started we have been blasted with Jackson, most of it speculation, half the show was attorney speak.
Who, btw, was the prosecutor? Marcia Clark?
I bet ACLU and NABLA are celebrating.
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.
"Michael Jackson was on his way back to Neverland to celebrate with [more little boys] at his spacious carnival theme park ranch in which he calls home."
I'm sickened. How many more little boys are going to be molested now since he's been given a carte blanche?
Signed,
A disgusted father of four pre-pubescent boys who will kill Michael Jackson if he ever molested any of my children.
"Financially ruined" OJ has been playing some pretty hoity-toity golf courses the past few years; he's far from financially ruined. As for MJ, I heard Germany specifically mentioned as a country where he still has fans and can make money. Like every other snubbed American entertainer, he'll move to Europe and milk money out of the quality-depraved citizens there. Without Europe, David Hasslehoff and Jerry Lewis would never have made it.
Yepp..
And.. it's california.. the same state that is getting bad with the Boy Scouts for thying to keep out the Michael Jackson types..
I fear the homosexual predators will feel empowered by this..
I 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.
A 46 year old man sleeps with young boys, has kiddie porn in his bedroom, and just because one of the lala land jurors says she didnt like the mother of the accuser snapping her fingers at her they find Jackson not guilty?
Miscarriage of justice.
"I think that's why we never heard that he did anything criminal to Culkin, because of his star status"
culkin would NEVER EVER admit to having done/seentouched MJ. it would be the absolute death knell of his acting career forever. he would overnight go from being the kid in home alone to the kid who (insert verb here)'ed michael jackson or who at least saw michael jackson doing one of a number of things.
Not surprising. At all. Were the fans threatening to burn LA if it was otherwise? Wondering fans wanna know.. Part II; probably to be covered by the MSM in "Post-Jocko" madness to obscure the real story of what is going on in the halls of congress....
It's really too bad that most of the parents of the likely molestation victims were themselves petty criminals, liars, cheats and theives, or else, there might have been a conviction.
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