Finally
I finally finished my lawn today. Lindsey and I built our house a year ago and I finally finished the lawn. I know it is going to be constant work and it will never be finished. I just finally finished planting all the grass seed and smoothing out our last section of yard.
Hurray!
Ok. Now to the boring stuff as Lindsey likes to say. What's new in the news? Michael Jackson was found not guilty on all 10 accounts. Is this surprising? Does this mean our judicial system doesn't work?
Everybody knows this man is not right in the mind. That is a given. He is a middle-aged man who shares his bed with kids, thinks like a kid, and would rather be with a child than any one else. He is obsessed with plastic surgery and is the whitest person of "color" to ever walk the face of the earth.
He was found today not guilty today in court. This is not a surprise; the "victim" never had a solid case. There were many holes in this case from day one.
Does this mean he didn't do it? Not at all. All this means is there was reasonable doubt. I did hear on the news some talking heads discussing if our judicial system is outdated and if it is time to updated? If you have read my previous blog you would know I am very critical of our judicial branch of government. I do not believe it is outdated though. The system itself is a very effective and timeless system. Only people found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt will be held accountable. It is the people inside the system that may need to be updated (or taken back a few hundred years to the original intent of a judge).
I am curious of what others opinion is on this case. Let me know.
Hurray!
Ok. Now to the boring stuff as Lindsey likes to say. What's new in the news? Michael Jackson was found not guilty on all 10 accounts. Is this surprising? Does this mean our judicial system doesn't work?
Everybody knows this man is not right in the mind. That is a given. He is a middle-aged man who shares his bed with kids, thinks like a kid, and would rather be with a child than any one else. He is obsessed with plastic surgery and is the whitest person of "color" to ever walk the face of the earth.
He was found today not guilty today in court. This is not a surprise; the "victim" never had a solid case. There were many holes in this case from day one.
Does this mean he didn't do it? Not at all. All this means is there was reasonable doubt. I did hear on the news some talking heads discussing if our judicial system is outdated and if it is time to updated? If you have read my previous blog you would know I am very critical of our judicial branch of government. I do not believe it is outdated though. The system itself is a very effective and timeless system. Only people found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt will be held accountable. It is the people inside the system that may need to be updated (or taken back a few hundred years to the original intent of a judge).
I am curious of what others opinion is on this case. Let me know.
posted by Uncle Jonny's at 3:27 PM
1 Comments:
In the Jackson case, I think the not-guilty was from a number of factors:
The prosecution was incompetent.
People have known Michael Jackson was a creepy pedophile for a decade, yet still let their children stay at Neverland. What idiot lets their kids stay the night with a person everyone is pretty sure likes to diddle little boys? If I were a juror, I would blame the parents at least as much as I blamed Jackson.
Juries have become very leary of child molestation cases after several very high profile cases that turned out to be nothing but a child's naturally over-active imagination combined with an over-zealous prosecutor willing to plant lies in a child's mind.
In other words, I think the system worked just fine. There was reasonable doubt. There probably shouldn't have been, but that isn't the fault of the jury or our court system.
On the other hand, it's not like Jackson just walked away from this unscathed. He is completely and utterly done for as a public figure of any kind, and he lost the Ranch to pay legal bills.
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