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

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Jun 16 18:06:52 PDT 2005


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



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