Jackson Molestation Case Goes to Jury - (I wonder what the Vegas odds are on conviction?)

SFGATE.COM ^ | JUNE 3, 2005 | LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondant

[Farmer Dean]

NOW that's a really disturbing photo.Where do they buy the noses.I'd be getting bids from other suppliers.

[spectre]

OK, I'll play.

He gets convicted of giving "jesus juice" to a minor. Skates on the rest.

But if convicted enough to get prison time, he will spend most of it in the infirmary, or isolated from the rest of the inmates.

Suicide? Nahhhh, he goes to the doctor for every little pain and he's too much of a coward to try to kill himself.

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[Pawnbkryid]

If Michael does go to jail,can anybody speculate how long it will take to "punk" him out?

[Dave S]

Were you able to drive ok while taking Xaxax?My dentist gave me some before a root canal and I needed help finding my way out of his waiting room.

I took Xanax for a while and I think it is only likely to affect your driving the first time you take it. After that I never noticed any effect at all.

[SkyPilot]

If Michael does go to jail,can anybody speculate how long it will take to "punk" him out?

14.251 seconds.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

I agree. Conviction on the alcohol charge but acquittal or hung jury on the molestation charge. He'll get probation with some kind of an order to stay away from kids. He will be in and out of court for years over custody of his own kids. His children will grow to hate him and they will come out with their own "tell all" books when Dad cuts their allowance off. One day they will find MJ dead in a hotel room of "undetermined" causes.

[randog]

As long as we're taking bets, what are the odds that he's still in the Country come next Monday?

I was wondering that myself. The one impression I got of this whole trial is that MJ lives in a psychotic fantasy world, and because of his money the people around him entertain that fantasy and, to a certain extent, join in themselves. He has his own private cult, so there'd be very few of his sycophants that wouldn't help him get out of prison time. I really wouldn't be surprised if he popped up on Brazilian TV denouncing the US as a police state.

[Nea Wood]

OMG! The nose looks like putty and the cleft in his chin looks like makeup. And that clown lipstick! That's one of the worst pictures I've ever seen of Jackson, and that is saying something.

[Freebird Forever]

IF convicted, will he go to prison, flee the country or commit suicide? I say the latter.

What if jacko hired one of his impersonators to do the time for him?

I believe he's been fingerprinted, but are fingerprints rechecked after sentencing?

[Recall]

I couldn't drive "without" it.

[latina4dubya]

I think he's not guilty after hearing about the background of the acusers.

same here... they are "suers," just like that lady with the thumb at Wendy's...

[onyx]

Oooh, I like the way you think, but, yes, they're fingerprinted again.