Monday, June 13, 2005
NO?
I was surprised to hear the 'not guilty' verdict for Jacko. I honestly believed that he would get pounced on by the jury.
But, then I thought O. J. would be found guilty too and the evidence there was harder with the consideration time way shorter.
I suppose, when you put in reasonable doubt, there is a lot of it. And 98 pages of detailed points of law. It makes for a pretty tangled thicket to come down with a verdict on. On the other hand...... I don't know. And that is the truth.
I wrote before that I think the whole thing is just sad and tragic from top to bottom. Whether we look at the accusers or this poor lost boy who is a master manipulator of the victim role. Victim versus victim. Sad. Sad. Sad.
Unlike my kids, I was never a fan. There is nothing in the man's past that I have any attraction to. I was just not there to hear or see it; outside my time.
Lost boys.
LATER: I read about the jury press conference. It seems to me that the verdict was actually: Victim's Mom GUILTY and MJ not. He won the victim race.
Some of the comments seemed silly. "he probably has committed pedophilia sometime, somewhere......" and "the mother snapped her fingers at us".
Jeezus Christopher