On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> ok, on the one hand, it shouldn't matter to a juror that the mother of
> the accuser is irritating.
Waitasecond. The jury didn't not trust her for trivial reasons. They thought, on very reasonable grounds, that there was a substantial chance that she was a crook who was lying -- or even pimping her son -- with the express purpose of shaking MJ down.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2120812/
That's not mindless. That's very material to the issue of reasonable doubt.
Michael