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On 6/14/05, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Jackson Returns Home a Free Man
>
> By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer
> 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
>
> [...]
>
> 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.
>
> [...]
>
> 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.
>
> [...]
>
> 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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