Only in California

I figured that they could not have had much of a case against him, not when the prosecuter made such a media circus of his indictments and other legal maneuvers.
 
You can't convict someone for being generally weird. You gotta have specific crimes and you gotta prove 'em.

Jackson is a weirdo, that's for sure. My guess is he's guilty of a lotta stuff and that child molestation may very well be on that list. But you gotta prove a specific crime.

The prosecution in this case was horrible. The tax payers in the state of California should be outraged that this man is their lawyer. It stunk! It stunk from the moment the first indictment was filed. Fox News checked their files and discovered that, according to their reporters, Jackson was not at Neverland on any of the dates that the indictment alledged he committed crimes there. After Fox broke the story, the prosecutor filed an ammended indictment. Then, late in the case, they decided to add this conspiracy angle and so the prosecutor introduced telephone bills showing a flurry of long-distance telephone calls between Jackson and several "unindicted co-conspirators." The problem: Those phone bills (from hotels, cell phones, and sat phones on private jets) again show Jackson NOT at Neverland on the days he was supposed to have committed the crimes at Neverland. The prosecutor is able to walk today only because they don't allow guns in courtroom... otherwise he'd have literally shot himself in the foot rather than just figuratively done so.

So many of the prosecutions witnesses essentially ended up testifying FOR Jackson, it wasn't funny. And yet each prosecution witness testified to having been coached by the prosecutor before hand.

And the woman and her boy: obviously gold-diggers and grifters. You couldn't have had a worse "victim."

Jackson was found innocent because he is innocent... of the ten specific charges in this case. Is he guilty of other charges? Probably. But we'll never know because unless there's video tape attested to by the Pope, they'll never be able to bring any charges against him again.

As I have said before, this trial is the best thing that ever happened to Jackson. He's basically immunized against any further prosecution. And the people of California should be outraged that their incompetent prosecutor bumbled this case badly.
 
Gollnick;

Thats my feeling almost to a "t". The inept prosecutor was a moron.
The police should be taken and run out of town.Starting at the top.
Love where my taxes go.
 
As we all know, "not guilty" is one thing, "innocent" is quite another.

Now, convinced of his immunity to prosecution, Jackson will continue to molest young boys. Child molesters cannot stop themselves. More children will be either victimized or pimped out by money hungry parents, but eventually one of these charges is gonna stick. Unless Jackson moves to France like fellow deviants Roman Polanski and Ira Einhorn to escape justice in the U.S.
 
Gollnick is dead on here. Snedden failed to prove his case and wasted the texpayers' dollars. This in spite of the judge stacking the deck in his favor. Allowing unproven past "allegations" to be used as evidence in an effort to prove past behavior was judicially irresponsible, IMO, as was the prosecution doing a crappy job of presenting its "witnesses". Jackson's ex-wife should have been interviewed prior to her appearance and others prepared better for testimony. Few were credible. Any conviction here would have resulted in appeals on countless grounds and cost even more.

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Many of the courtroom commentators said they couldn't tell who was wierder, Jackson or the kid's mom. When your plaintiff has no credibility....
 
The words to one of Woody Guthrie's old dust bowl ballads kind of fits this situation. :)

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi.
 
He paid $30 million for his last victim's silence, this one almost bankrupted him. If one more comes forward he may actually go to jail.
I am particularly disgusted by the outpouring of support he continues to get.
 
There is no question that Jackson is a wierd and sick person. If what LaToya has said about the Jackson family life has any truth to it at all, there may be some reason for this. It does not excuse his abuse of children, which has most obviously occurred, but the state has been unable to prove that. The current case reminds me of the old legal saying: "If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have neither, shout loudly." The prosecution in this case was so busy shouting that it became apparent that they had neither the law nor the facts on their side.

There is an op-ed piece in today's Washington Post by Eugene Robinson captioned, "Moonwalking to Freedom", on the subject of the trial. I won't paste the whole thing, but here are some pertinent quotes:
In retrospect, the problem with the prosecution's case was that it was weak in the specific but strong in the general. At issue was the question of whether Jackson molested and corrupted with alcohol one young man and conspired to whisk his family off to forced exile in Brazil. But the family was, frankly, flaky in the extreme. Their history of telling the truth was spotty, to say the least.

That was why prosecutor Sneddon fought so hard to introduce the testimony of past alleged victims, and that testimony was, to my ears, devastating. It was hard to escape the conclusion that there was a troubling pattern of behavior here -- a middle-aged man inviting a succession of boys for sleepovers, showing them skin mags, finally paying them off with multimillion-dollar settlements when they threatened to file charges.

But there's no charge of "first-degree faux-juvenile dirty-old-man weirdness" in the California penal code, and the jury found reasonable doubt on the specific charges. Jackson was acquitted and may now don his single glove and walk or moonwalk to freedom.
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Further:
I've written in the past that the spectacle of Jackson on trial was irredeemably sad, and that's still true. Just the other day, shopping in an international food market not far from my house that has an unusually high class of background music, I heard the old Jackson 5 hit "ABC" and was reminded again how preternaturally confident and polished Michael's singing was, how energetic, how fresh. He was the personification of youthful promise.

I've also written that whatever happened at Neverland, the parents of the young boys who shared Jackson's bed deserved a good measure of blame, and they still do. But why do I have the depressing feeling that there are other star-struck, emotionally and financially desperate families out there ready to take their place?

If so, has this trial accomplished anything? I think it has. At least we know that beneath the childlike exterior, there's a shrewd and calculating man. We know that the image of Jackson as an aging, asexual Peter Pan is a lie. We know that, surrounded by his paid acolytes and his paid "friends" and his grasping family, Michael Jackson is one lonely man.

He's not guilty on all charges. But I'll never look at him quite the same way again, and I suspect that you won't either.
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And that, friends, is the bottom line. For most of the world, Jackson will never have the same public image and will never have the same public appeal.
 
This is how sick and stupid our society is.
A rich freak like Jackson , gets off scot free , twice now. Not only that but he has massive media and fan support.
On the other hand , a regular man who happens to have a different outlook on religion and politics , David Koresh is damned by the Government , Media and the majority of the American public for child molestation which also was not proven , to this day even though he was murdered by the same Government that damned him , your average "joe off the steet" only knows Koresh as that child molester in Waco that got all those people killed.
Sick..... F'ing sick... :mad: :barf:
 
rebeltf,

That's certainly an interesting comparison.

Jackson is as weird as it gets, but Koresh a regular guy with a different outlook on religion and politics?
 
rebeltf said:
This is how sick and stupid our society is.
A rich freak like Jackson , gets off scot free , twice now. Not only that but he has massive media and fan support.
On the other hand , a regular man who happens to have a different outlook on religion and politics , David Koresh is damned by the Government , Media and the majority of the American public for child molestation which also was not proven , to this day even though he was murdered by the same Government that damned him , your average "joe off the steet" only knows Koresh as that child molester in Waco that got all those people killed.
Sick..... F'ing sick... :mad: :barf:
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Bull Shyte! David Koresh killed himself by:
1) Refusing to come out when the arrest warrants were issued;
2) Thereby guaranteeing that, sooner or later, they would come in after him; and
3) Setting buckets of gasoline around the complex so that any attempt to use most tear gas devices or any explosive entry devices would trigger the inferno that resulted.

This is not to say that the feds were blameless. The ATF acted stupidly in the initial raid, set up from all appearances as a media event to impress the new Administration and thereby gain increased budgets. Well, that sure as Hell backfired. Then the FBI continued its sterling record as begun at Ruby Ridge by assuring Janet Reno that they could go in there without causing undue injuries in order to get her approval. There were NO flame-thrower tanks, NO planned fires set by the feds, as charged by some. As "Uncle Atli's Very Thin Book of Wisdom" says: “Be reluctant to suspect conspiracy when mere bureaucratic incompetence will suffice.”
 
but Koresh a regular guy with a different outlook on religion and politics?
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Yea. His outlook on religion wasnt any wierder than say.. a Mormon , or a Catholic , I mean come on let all sorts of faiths in America , what was so wrong with his ? As far as his idea of politics , well him and his followers were afraid of thier government , and look where it got them.
 
OJ Simpson - acquitted
Winina Ryder - acquitted
Kobe Bryant - acquitted
Robert Blake - acquitted
Michael Jackson - acquitted

How do you think this makes Martha Stewart feel?
 
rebeltf said:
Yea. His outlook on religion wasnt any wierder than say.. a Mormon , or a Catholic , I mean come on let all sorts of faiths in America , what was so wrong with his ? As far as his idea of politics , well him and his followers were afraid of thier government , and look where it got them.
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A famous underground author (Ragnar Benson) said Be careful, otherwise
the feds might show up, burn your church to the ground and then bulldoze
the place and put a fence around it and act like nothing had happened.

How very true.
 
Centaur said:
OJ Simpson - acquitted
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The case against him was lame.... unless he used an early Dark Ops knife with the controlled blood splatter features. :D


Winina Ryder - acquitted
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That one shocked me. She was caught red-handed.



Kobe Bryant - acquitted
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Another lame case and another gold-digger.


Robert Blake - acquitted
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That one was 50/50 in my eyes. I was only slightly surprised at the acquittal.



Michael Jackson - acquitted
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The lamest of the lame cases with an obvious gold-digger, grifter accusor


How do you think this makes Martha Stewart feel?
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I thought the case against her was pretty weak too. I was surprised. But, in classic Martha style, she's turning it into the best thing that every happened to her. There's still her appeal to go, too,
 
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