[lbo-talk] MJ jurors didn't necessarily think he was innocent

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 14 03:18:10 PDT 2005


Michael Jackson Returns Home a Free Man

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

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Jurors may have acquitted Jackson of all charges of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor, but not all of them were convinced the King of Pop had never molested a child.

"He's just not guilty of the crimes he's been charged with," said Ray Hultman, who told The Associated Press he was one of three people on the 12-person panel who voted to acquit only after the other nine persuaded them there was reasonable doubt about the entertainer's guilt in this particular case.

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But Hultman said he believed it was likely that both boys had been molested. He said he voted to acquit Jackson in the current case because he had doubts about his current accuser's credibility.

"That's not to say he's an innocent man," Hultman, 62, said of Jackson.

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Some jurors acknowledged they flatly disliked the accuser's mother. "I disliked it intensely when she snapped her fingers at us," said one juror, a woman, who declined to give her name.

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