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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jurors reach verdict in Michael Jackson trial
2005-06-13
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - The jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial has reached a verdict, a court spokesman said on Monday Jackson was expected to report to the courthouse in Santa Maria from his Neverland Valley Ranch, about 20 minutes away, for the reading of the verdicts at 4:30 4:45 5pm EDT. Prosecutors and lawyers for the 46-year-old entertainer will also be on hand.
As well as the legion of Jackson "supporters". If he's found guilty, they'll riot
Jackson is charged in a 10-count Santa Barbara County grand jury indictment with molesting a teenage boy in February or March of 2003, plying the young cancer patient with alcohol in order to abuse him and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
Please Lord, let this freak show end. Fox chopper is following Jackson motorcade of 4 black SUVs, decision expected in 15 minutes, he's about 30 minutes away. Typical.
Posted by:Steve

#33  I was once told by a very old and esteemed lawyer that he had spent decades carefully picking jurors but that, if he could do it all over again, he would probably just take the first 12 people who walked through the door. All human beings are wild cards.
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-13 20:55  

#32  I really don't like the picking and choosing of jury members. It just winnows it do to the mentally challenged. Come on. Just spin the wheel and fill the members. A RANDOM not FILTERED AND SELECTED jury.
Posted by: 3dc   2005-06-13 20:37  

#31  oh. did ima mis sumthin?

thisn em day wen yallz can remeber were yoo were wen yoo herd em verdikt.

this day is liv forefer in infamee!
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-06-13 20:30  

#30  And he left the courthouse, gleefully calling out "I feel like a young boy! Err.. wait a minute..."
Posted by: Darth_Auditor   2005-06-13 20:21  

#29  Please, no more of those pix. It seems to be the teensy little schnozz that increases the creep-o factor.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-06-13 19:53  

#28  Lol, Doc! Poor google, heh.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 19:49  

#27  .com, call me a medical Luddite if you wish, but I don't buy the 'whiteness' cover story>> vitiligo.
Posted by: Dr. Spemblov   2005-06-13 19:45  

#26  So that's what did it, huh?

And here I was duped into thinking it was that they'd used a Stanley 12-205 jackplane to skinny it down instead of a fine Clinicon Diamond Laser scalpel. Silly me. ;-)
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 19:37  

#25  :)
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-06-13 19:27  

#24  .com, take 3 morphins every 4 hrs till a piece of yer schnoze falls off.
Posted by: Dr. Spemblov   2005-06-13 19:24  

#23  Heh. It's just cover, man, the guy's AMA card would prolly 'splode spontaneously if he offered something that didn't come from the PDR.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 19:24  

#22  You'd trust a Spem with a prescription pad?
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-13 19:18  

#21  This, all of this farce, is depressing.

I need an endorphins booster.

Dr Steve - got a lithium regime or something you can recommend? A legal one, affordable by peons and working stiffs? Mebbe eating 5 bananas a day or something? You can post a response as Spemble something - to maintain your medical distance from such homebrew remedies... the AMA might jump ya, otherwise.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 18:59  

#20  Ya mean... that's it? It's over?

...

What do you suppose Robert Blake is up to these days?
Posted by: BH   2005-06-13 18:40  

#19  Oh no - you're right, Frank. Sigh. What a deep-fried piece of shit.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 18:39  

#18  Celebrity justice - next up - white afro-wearing itchy trigger-fingered troll Phil Specter
Posted by: Frank G   2005-06-13 18:35  

#17  I think my jaw dropped about NO inches in shock at this one. The DAs in Kalifornia couldn't convict Judas of handing Christ over to the Pharasies
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2005-06-13 18:00  

#16  My take on the whole matter is that the Santa Barbara County DA was getting reports of goings on in Neverland and finally decided to nail MJ. The only trouble was that parents that sent their kids to Neverland for overnight have got to be flakes. Flakes make weak witnesses, so the prosecution had to make a case with people that could be torn to shreds by a good defense attorney. Witness credibility (or the lack thereof) probably sunk this case for the prosection.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-06-13 17:53  

#15  So now I suppose we will get back to 24/7 coverage of that attractive white woman who ran off with some locals disappeared in Aruba again right? (never mind those people being tortured, raped, and killed in the corner... their only mud people...).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-06-13 17:31  

#14  well I was wondering why he turned into a white guy, he musta known this day was comin and best to be prepared goin into the courtroom. first appearances are everything Ya know.
Posted by: SCPatriot   2005-06-13 17:27  

#13  Thinking of this one, SCP?
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 17:22  

#12  Unbelievable, guess that Money and and White ppl do get off easy in Kalifornia... Who'da thunk it.
Posted by: SCPatriot   2005-06-13 17:16  

#11  And so it's off to Neverland for a glass of Jesus juice and a game of...God, I don't want to think about it.
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-06-13 17:16  

#10  Wow--they announced "not guilty" on ALL counts. The state must have had a pathetically weak case.

I can not believe the zany supporters he has--on Fox they were showing one lady release a dove as every "not guilty" was read out. Do these people have jobs?! Do they have lives?!
Posted by: Dar   2005-06-13 17:15  

#9  Got off scot free. California juries, wtf is the matter with these people?
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-06-13 17:13  

#8  He didn't do nuthin...
Jeez and I thought Michael Jackson lived in a parallel universe...
Posted by: True German Ally   2005-06-13 17:11  

#7  What was that jury foreman line from "The Producers"?

Oh yeah -

"We find the defendant(s) incredibly guilty."
Posted by: mojo   2005-06-13 17:04  

#6  How about this?
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 16:56  

#5  Damn, that mug shot is just.......creepy.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-06-13 16:51  

#4  Start selling "their story" to the first network that shows up with a check.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-06-13 16:50  

#3  MJ is in the building. Whole family with him, wondering what they are going to do if their source of income goes to the slammer.
Posted by: Steve   2005-06-13 16:44  

#2  Judge just issued 5 minute warning.
Posted by: Steve   2005-06-13 16:38  

#1  LOL, the "We're Sorry" idiots are back, now at this circus trial.

Picture here.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-06-13 16:36  

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