Originally posted by carole

I honestly cannot see how his wealth and fame could get him a Not Guilty verdict, unless he had a way of paying the jurors, and that would not have happened, I saw and heard the Jury speak, they are your average person on the street, a real mixture of age groups, etc, and they said they it was an easy decision, that in itself tells me the evidence was rubbish, and the woman was anything but credible, the fact MJ did not take the stand was a very good move on his lawyers part IMO, does not mean he was guilty just because he did not do so.

None of us were there in the court or heard the evidence, we have only know what the media tells us, and we all know how that can get mis-construed.

Carole, it was as if I wrote your post! Those are my thoughts, exactly.

I said it before, and I will say it again. It is totally insulting to those jurors, who heard every ounce of evidence, to say "well, he should have been found guilty....". They were there, we were not. They did their job. We play Monday Night Quarterback.

It is RARE, in a criminal case, for the defendant to take the stand. RARE. Not unheard of, obviously, but RARE. The jurors would have been instructed heavily that nothing can be drawn from MJ not taking the stand. It is a basic, and essential, Constitutional right of ours not to be called to testify against oneself.

If the prosecution (whom, btw, had been gunning for MJ for YEARS) didn't sustain the burden of proof, MJ can't be found guilty. If you want to blame someone, blame the prosecution, not the jurors.