Posted on 06/19/2005 1:59:33 AM PDT by MadIvan
Go Michael, go! Thailand, a country more understanding of your um..... habits awaits. I actually think he'll land in France. As long as he follows the Oscar Wilde (before he made his last huge mistake) rule he'll be fine there.
Just because Jackson is "Not Guilty by Reason of Celebrity" does not mean we can't comment on it.
Here are some sites where you can go celebrate with their ilk.
http://www.michaeljacksonimposter.iwarp.com/
By the way, the case was not weak. According to legal experts, pedophiles are convicted in 98% of the cases where instances of past abuse are introduced as evidence. Jackson's jury just didn't want his rabid, insane fans to ruin their lives. They are cowards.
Jackson will abuse again. When that happens, I'll be sure to ping you.
Did anyone see Triumps The Insult Dogg video at the Michael Jackson Trial?
Funniest thing Ive ver seen.
I was looking forward to the "I'm Bad II" prison album.
You have leveled a lot of charges but there isn't anything to back them up.
The case againt Jackson was as weak as wet tissue paper.
Have you ever noticed that on FR the jury is blamed when someone is found not guilty, whereas, it is that prosecutors simply go to court with weak cases.
The Robert Blake case would be a good example. That poor slob spent over a year in jail without bail and the prosecutor had no case to begin with. His two star witnesses consisted of one severly warped drug addict and the other suffered from a severe mental disorder.
I think the prosecutors often want to build political careers on the basis of big name convictions. The burden of proof is no less or more for a celeb. I would hope that the FR family viewed cases in the same manner.
I won't worship at the alter of our justice system like you seem to. Although it is a better system than most, it is terribly fallible. The Jackson case just proves it--especially in California, where justice is a joke.
Worship,no! Expect a well presented and factually sound prosecution case, certainly.
One can piss and moan all one wants but in both the Blake and the Jackson cases the prosecution was inept and damn short of evidence.
Fortunately for both of those men they had the finances to hire very good defense attorneys to defemd them against the full weight and treasury of the state of California. Imagine how difficult this is for a blue collar guy.
The prosecutor is an arm of the state as is the full scope of the judiciary, with nearly limitless manpower and finances to be brought to bear against one citizen. I think the wealth of people and monies is what drives some of the prosecutors to decided to move forward with questionable cases. They experience no repercussion from their failed cases. The failure is simply blamed upon the jury when the blame frequently falls fully upon the state's weal case and a lack of evidence.
I thought he would have left the country right after the verdict was announced.
JMHO, I beleive MJ now becomes a marked man for somebody who wants to make a name for themselves, I wouldn't change places with him for all the Jackson money! Just a matter of time.
What is your issue? Are you a defense lawyer, or were you or someone you know once brought up on charges? You certainly are more passionate about this than your average joe.
Moreover, many, many legal analysts disagree vehemently with your repeated charge that the evidence against Jackson was "tissue paper thin." Court TV, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX all had former prosecutors on their shows who said this was one of the strongest cases they had seen. Child molestation usually doesn't have eye witnesses to the actual act. The jury said in the post verdict conference they demanded a "smoking gun." Please.
To rub salt in the wound, one of the jurors did attend a post "victory party."
You can read about it right here.
This excerpt sums up the profanity of "justice" being done by this travesty of a jury decision:
Among the approximately 400 people who arrived at the Chumash Indian Casino was juror Pauline Coccoz. When she walked into the casino and heard Jackson's music playing, Coccoz said, the enormity of what had transpired hit her. "They were playing 'Beat It,' and I almost started to cry," she said as she waited to enter the showroom. She said that earlier in the day, she had received a wristband needed for admission to the party.
In the final analysis, an evil pedophile is free to molest again, and our legal system allowed this to happen.
God help us all.
What I am interested in is our system of justice.
I am surprised that the networks had prosecutors on who said the case was strong, nor would I be surprised if they had defense attorneys on who said the case was weak. In each case I would be interested in how much of the evidence each of the commentators had seen. They may well have been basing their opinions on radio, television, newspaper and magazine reports, as I have. Or they may have been acting as simple talking heads.
I don't find anything final about your analysis. You have an opinion. I have an opinion. Nothing is final about either.
My opinion is that the prosecution's case was a mound of light and sound without any lightning. It followed the Scott Peterson trial in that the point was to make Jackson appear to be an evil bastard so that the jury could over look a lack of evidence an feel comfortable in putting an evil man away for what he may have done in the past if the current charges couldn't be supported.
The job of a prosecutor isn't to present a case and let the jury decide guilt or innocence. The job is to present the evidence that the prosecutor believes proves a guilty person's guilt.
It would be a sorry state of affairs if people were tried on the chance they could be judged guilty even if the state didn't believe they were guilty or that a jury could be swayed to a guilty verdict even with a lack of evidence.
Give it to him and good riddance!
Fair enough post.
Imagine his disappointment when he goes to London and finds out Big Ben is a clock.
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