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marksi wrote:To be honest I thought the most bizarre thing about the trial was the fact that the jury held a press conference afterwards. Would they have done that if they had found him guilty?

Same here. I found it an amazing situation. There the jury were been questioned on there decision - like they were on trial.
I've always found the American "justice" system a bit of a muddle; and thats putting it lightly.

I really did start to question things then. One of them (jury) made me laugh -
"We decided straight off that we were going to treat him like any other" Yeah, Of course!

I was expecting them to go after him on the alchol charges, which seemed dead set but then "not guilty" came through.
All well apparently he's off to Las Vegas so maybe that sentence isn't so bad....

Having followed the case quite closely, I really wasn't surprised at the result. No jury in the world is going to believe a family who have each admitted to lying on oath when bringing another not dissimilar child abuse case. Without any doubt, they were liars who were after his money.

Michael Jackson clearly has serious mental problems. Whether this extends to abuse of children was never really going to be proved in a case in which the main prosecution witnesses were so untrustworthy.

What I think is of more immediate concern, is what kind of parent encourages their child to spend time in the company of a single man in his 40s in the hope that they might be able to sue him for abuse? If anyone's going to be accused of inappropriate behaviour involving children today it should be Janet Arvizo.

Apparently, MJ has a bank balance of only US$38,000, but has about US$70million worth of outstanding debts.

DJGM wrote:Apparently, MJ has a bank balance of only US$38,000, but has about US$70million worth of outstanding debts.

Yeah, apparently I have £120,563 pounds in my bank account and £5 trillion of debts.

APPRENTLY

How can ANYONE speculate on a private individual's money situation?

His debts might seem insurmountable but he does have a hefty portfolio of assets, not least Neverland and part of the Beatles catalogue.

Got to be worth a penny or two.

Exactly. I've heard all sorts of figures for his share in the Beatles back catalogue, most of them at least $500 million. So he may be bankrupt but he isn't really... bankrupt.

To be honest wheter he is guilty or not the prosecution was a complete & total shambles, None were consistant at all. They kept changing what they were saying on a weekly basis.

Whatever happens to him in future one thing his family needs to do is take him to one side & TALK TO HIM. Surely a lack of communication from his family resulted in him looking so weird like he does now. Surely his family didn't turn round every time he came back from the plastic surgeons & said "you look great".

He definately needs help mentally as he still thinks he's about 12.