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.
In which he calls home?
M.J. call home.
He should not play at Trump's place. Somehow Circus Circus seems like a better venue!
and boom, just like oj, he's financially ruined for the rest of his life, and of course guilty in the court of public opinion. when the media are so complicit in abetting the circus most celebrity trials are, do viewers really expect justice? or just entertainment...
Jackson won because he knows how to pick his victims because their families are whacko. And because they are whacko, they do not come across as credible.
I think that's why we never heard that he did anything criminal to Culkin, because of his star status. And who knows, maybe he didn't do anything to McCauley.
All in all--Jackson is sick and needs therapy. I wonder how this jury will feel if something happens again and Jackson has to go to court to prove his innocence and he lost. Would they feel that maybe they let him off too easy and that as a result, he went on the prowl again only to harm another child.
****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*****
How can someone who's back was so bad he had to be repeatedly excused from court be worth a 3 year contract for $200 million dollars?
The good thing about MJ not being convicted is that now we wont have to go through months of seeing this pervert awaiting a sentencing hearing. With any kind of luck he will drift off into the ozone broke and friendless.
His back problems were from kidney stones,which is very believable with dehydration.
Hi, newb, perhaps, you're helping OJ find the real killer on golf courses all over America?
the justice system simply cannot handle celebrities. Oh well. Put it this way. I was not surprised at all.
I am no big fan of Jackson and he is definitely a freak, but the facts of the case were bothersome. Timetable didn't make sense.
You're from the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, huh? Stick around, you may learn why Jacko isn't liked over here...
NO way Trump or Wynn ponies up that kind of money..These were stories floated by the MJ entourage to keep him afloat until after the trial..He'll have to do concerts to make money, and most promoters will shy away, or provide very little in up-front money, because they will NOT be able to get insurance
"I wonder how this jury will feel if something happens again.. "
They'll feel nothing. The only feeling they have today is a feeling of excitment. They're probably all waiting breathlessly for an invitation to his "playground" for the celebration.
I hope they take their kids.
Just heard that the jurors will be sending their kids/grandkids to the victory party sleepover at Neverland.
GET OUT, he'll finally yell.
Then he'll try to conjure up some sort of Carrie-like revenge on all of us.
I sure hope that jury was right.
I liked how even the movie Undercover Brother, in the midst of conspiracies by The Man to keep blacks down (it's satire), said that OJ really did do it.
But then, someday, there is a higher court.
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