Prosecutors admitted she had committed welfare fraud and the defense portrayed the family as playing "the biggest con of their careers." Those charges allowed the defense to put on witnesses that undercut the prosecution's entire argument.Īnd instead of being a poignant and sympathetic prosecution witnesses, the mother of the boy Jackson was accused of molesting turned out to be a blessing for the defense.
The conspiracy charges were always the weakest part of the prosecution's case.
But if not a vendetta, then maybe simple bad judgment led Sneddon to put on a case that reached too far for its own good. Jackson accused Sneddon of waging a vendetta, something the prosecutor, of course, denied. "He is addicted to little boys like a junkie is to crack! He is not going to change.even though he was aquitted (sic) by a jury, i suppose he paid enough money for the verdict.he is free once more to do some other little boy in the future, it's just a matter of time." "Much like any addict.he needs help," wrote "swtgeorgiabrown" in a BET.com posting. And learning those lessons is something many people doubt is possible for him.
Jackson might think "I am Peter Pan," as he told Bashir, but he is a man who should know better.Īpparently he doesn't, unless the trial taught him some lessons he neglected to learn long ago. He was talking about sharing his bed with boys. What's wrong is Jackson wasn't talking about one of his wives. Because what's wrong with sharing a love?" "The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. "Why can't you share your bed?" Jackson said in a 2002 documentary by Martin Bashir, a British journalist.