Michael Jackson trial

[Ambulance Chaser]

What do you think the outcome of the Michael Jackson trial will be?

 

[faustian bargain]

i predict the jurors will make bank on their stories.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Micheal Jackson will kill everyone in the courtroom with his moonwalk superweapon.

 

[faustian bargain]

he's Bad, after all.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

no mistrial/hung jury option?

 

[retronotmetro]

no mistrial/hung jury option?

I thought that a hung jury was a reasonable possibility until the judge decided to allow jury instructions on the misdemeanor charge of furnishing alcohol to minors (a lesser included offense of the felony charge of administering alcohol in order to assist molestation). I haven't been following the trial closely but it seems like there is enough evidence for the jury to convict on the misdemeanor charge, which would make that charge the basis for a potential compromise verdict. If there are jurors who are on the fence about the serious charges but believe that something bad "must" have happened, they might acquit on everything but the simplest charge.

 

[Cliff]

A better poll would be: "Which juror will write a book first?"

 

[nightowl6261a]

i predict the jurors will make bank on their stories.

one already has a book deal I think they said.

 

[faustian bargain]

i think i will wait for the movie version, and base my judgement solely on that.

 

[Dakota rube]

Verdict, apparently, is in and will be read @ 3:35 p.m. CDT. Stay tuned.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

I predict that Jackson will be acquitted.  He will subsequently release an updated version of "Billie Jean" mentioning his accuser, and marry Tom and Katie at the Neverland ranch.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

any last minute predictions?

 

[Dakota rube]

He'll walk.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Verdict is not guilty on all charges.  Just as I predicted.

 

[RJman]

Think we'll at least get to see him go broke?