damnum absque injuria

June 10, 2005

NEWSFLASH — JACKO GUILTY!!!!!!!

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 12:09 pm

According to the prosecutors, anyway. We’re still waiting to hear what the jury has to say about it.

UPDATE: Oops.

5 Responses to “NEWSFLASH — JACKO GUILTY!!!!!!!”

  1. Joel B. Says:
    June 10th, 2005 at 12:25 pm

    Jury, what is this jury you speak of? Some kind of legal formality? Surely they just rubber stamp the prosecutors? No?!

  2. Sigivald Says:
    June 10th, 2005 at 3:13 pm

    I’d be surprised if the prosectors said he was not guilty. I mean, rather a waste of time and money, then, no?

  3. mikem Says:
    June 10th, 2005 at 6:50 pm

    I don’t blame them for being confident. I expected either a quick not guilty verdict or a longer time to decide which charges to hold him guilty on and which not guilty.
    I think if he was going to be cleared it would have happened already.
    I think he is guilty, but the defense did a great job of painting the victims as greedy opportunists, which the mother obviously was. In my mind she sold her son’s welfare for Jackson’s cash and gifts. I believe the child, though and Jackson certainly presents himself as an arrogant child abuser.

  4. Patterico Says:
    June 10th, 2005 at 7:14 pm

    This is a stupid story. Nothing in it suggests they think they’ve won. They are just glad it’s over and don’t think it went horribly.

    My wife and I have a tradition that we go out to eat when either of us finishes a trial. They’re pretty stressful.

  5. Xrlq Says:
    June 10th, 2005 at 7:33 pm

    Fair enough, but if they’re really just celebrating that it’s over, why didn’t they do it a week ago? Or is there something to Mikem’s theory that if he were going to walk it would have happened already?

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