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June 15, 2005
Insert "Jacko beats it" joke here
Unless you're reading this from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, you heard that Michael Jackson was found not guilty on all ten counts relating to child molestation.
The funniest part to me is how all the commentators are up in arms about how guilty he is, how could he possibly get off, how the jury is a bunch of idiots. I think they are completely wrong.
When it usually comes to celebrity trials, everyone usually ends up predicting the celebrity will go free despite overwhelming evidence otherwise. I don't think that's what happened here. Everyone agrees that Jacko is Wacko, and probably not safe to have around the kids. But is he a molestor? You can't prove it - and that is the way the criminal justice system works. This is not like the OJ trial to me - where, really, The Juice got away with one.
I thought the defense did a great job. They turned the prosecution's case into swiss cheese, and whittled the kid's mother down to a stump. So while the Fox News Channel is ready to kick California out of the union for this latest transgression, I applaud the jury. I think it would have been the easy way out to convict Jacko.
Posted by oz115 at June 15, 2005 12:03 PM