Michael Jackson

Forget about Jesus juice, porn magazines and creepy sleepovers.

The jury found Michael Jackson not guilty on all 10 child molestation counts and you have to trust they got it right.

There was not enough hard evidence to find the King of Pop guilty and the jury responded in kind. Was there smoke? Oh yeah. Lots of it. Just knowing that MJ thinks it's OK to share his bed with little boys is enough to make you want to shower.

But the jury, after watching Jackson for months and listening to both sides of the story, felt there was not enough data to send him to jail.

This was not OJ's jury. After watching the jurors interviewed over the last few hours it's clear this was an intelligent group who wanted to get it right. They approached their job without celebrity bias, carefully sifting through the testimony before making a unanimous decision.

Was it the right decision? Who knows. But you have to respect the jury. With a world full of opportunists, vindictive prosecutors and overzealous law enforcement, objective rationality sometimes falls into the hands of a jury.

And you have to trust they get it right.

Comments

[Liz]

I find it interesting that MJ, OJ, RB, and KB (although settled out of court), all have somehow "gotten off." They're all rich and different races so you can't use the race and class cards. Martha Stewart made a phone call and she's in the slammer. Kill your ex-wife, hire someone to kill your wife, molest children, and rape a woman and you go free but don't mess with Wall Street! Are American morals all about money and fame and to heck with women and children? Just something to think about...

[Dan]

Jeffrey McDonald, Ed Gein and Scott Peterson are paying for those sins. You'd like to think it all evens out somehow, but you never know.