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In Reply to: Re: Michael Jackson - not guilty! posted by a poster on June 14, 2005 at 01:10:08:
"Not all the jurors were convinced the King of Pop had never molested a child.
"He's just not guilty of the crimes he's been charged with," said juror Ray Hultman. He told The Associated Press he was one of three people on the 12-person panel who voted to acquit only after the other nine persuaded them there was reasonable doubt about guilt in this particular case.
Prosecutors presented testimony about Jackson's allegedly improper relationships with several boys in the early 1990s, including the son of a maid who testified that Jackson molested him during tickling session between 1987 and 1990. Another, Brett Barnes, took the stand to deny that he was molested during sleepovers at Neverland.
But Hultman said he believed it was likely that both boys had been molested. He said he voted to acquit Jackson in the current case because he had doubts about his current accuser's credibility.
"That's not to say he's an innocent man," Hultman, 62, said of Jackson. Some jurors noted they were troubled by Jackson's admission that he allowed boys into his bed for what he characterized as innocent sleepovers."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050614/ap_on_en_mu/michael_jackson
