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Originally posted by missy28
Ok, I normally don't enter debates like this but this is one I couldn't resist... I am a prosecutor and have a unique perspective on it. Civileng68, you say there's no evidence against him, but have you read the case file? Do you work in the District Attorney's Office? Are you sitting on the grand jury? Have you heard any sworn testimony? Have you spoken with the detectives on the case? My guess is NO... but that you are getting all your information from the media-- the liberal, anti-prosecution of anyone famous media. Unless and until you are working on the case in some capacity or sworn as a juror, no one can say YES or NO as to his guilt.
In reference to the search warrant... search warrants are not nice tidy little things... law enforcement is LOOKING for things, and it is necessary to upend some things sometimes to do that. And it's legal, so if you don't like it, talk to your congressmen and senators about changing the law.
He's not being unduly prosecuted because he's weird looking or because Tom Sneddon has a vendetta (he wrote that song AFTER he bought the first victim off)-- he's being prosecuted because the law enforcement agency and District Attorney found there was enough evidence to take it to a grand jury... so let's wait and see what the grand jury does.
And if I were representing Michael Jackson, I'd tell him to stay away from places that little kiddies linger-- like Disney World-- in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety. He apparently doesn't care. And as for the "I've had a lousy childhood" defense-- grow up, get over it, and move on, people... we could all blame bad adult behavior on something in our childhood. Juries aren't buying that defense, thank God. Enough of the victimization of America. If he's guilty (and as a prosecutor, I trust another prosecutor when he's says he is guilty, but again, I wouldn't know for sure unless I heard sworn testimony) he needs to be LOCKED UP for the rest of his life. He's taking advantage of his fame and money and has for years. Enough is enough.
Go ahead, flame away... but that's my 2 cents for what it's worth.
Ok, here's my rebuttle to your statements:
No, I have not seen the case file and do not know the evidence but neither do you. So, no I don't know for a fact that there's no evidence, but at the same time, you have no facts that say there is. You feel that the search warrant shows that there must be some form of evidence. that's incorrect. Many warrants are based on presumption.
About tearing a place up, you are wrong. You can move things and remove things and displace things (however you want to put it), however, you cannot bust through walls (without the owner's witnessing), destroy floors, destroy furniture and not replace anything. OK, so they destoyed some things. If they did not find anything in those items, why are they not replaced?
About Tom Sneddon and "buying" off the first victim. I'll switch that on you. He did not "buy" off the first "victim". First off, if I were a parent and I knew my son had been sexually assaulted, no money on earth would satisfy my craving for a conviction. I would want to kill the person. I think the father by accepting that money said in no particular words that Jackson was "not guilty". Even if he did do it, the point is, taking that money made a big statement about that father.
Sneddon was not after him the first time around but rather the second time (now) after that song was written. Sneddon is a dirty man in my opinion.
About telling people to move on that have had traumatic experiences in their lives. Hey, he's not making excuses. I don't hear him saying "I have issues with kids because of my dad". He simply had some surgeries and everyone's in his business about why, so he says why. You ask, you get an answer. I think instead of complaining about his childhood, in his case it has mentally damaged him.
He is different and he looks horrible, but there are reasons. Not everyone in the psychiatric ward of the hospital is really sane and just in there because they want to be the victim. He really has problems.
About Disney World. To say that he's in a place where little kids is and should stay away is complete crap. Everywhere you go are kids, unless you are at an adult only place, which is not anywhere I go.
Unless he's at Disney with a kid's head poking out of his zipper you cannot put that on him. It is completely unfair.
I know the media is liberal, and I hate it! I am very conservative but just totally disagree with this one.
Convicted murderers are put under less stress than Jackson is as an ACCUSED person.
Oh by the way, how do you explain the DSS in Ca, having video of the boy (accuser) and his mother claiming that Jackson has never done anything sexually to him? Or was that a buy off too?