So. What are we to make of this, do you think…?
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Recent Comments
- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
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- In The Mailbox: 07.18.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
JURORS LIED—AS-YET UNIDENTIFIED BAHRAINIAN LADS DRANK WINE, LOOKED AT PORN, AND HAD A HAPPY JACKO PAW TUGGING ON THEIR LITTLE NUT-BROWN BOY PENISES, THEN LOST THEIR SUBSEQUENT LAWSUITS AND GREW UP TO BE SELF-LOATHING POP HATERS!
Wait, that doesn’t rhyme…
Let me be the first to say that most horrible of all words – the one we dread above all: re-trial.
Frankly, I’d rather gouge my eyes out than have to go through that again.
As a former prosecutor – let me assure you – no retrial. You can go pound the Judge, maybe the jurors, but all that stuff about double jeopardy gets in the way of a second criminal trial on the same charges…
Hey! Where’s the damn armadillo? Trot that little armored sucker out and get him DANCIN’, bay-bee..
Since he was last seen playing baseball, I’d imagine Rafael’s attorney is advising him to pack his glove in until the storm blows through.
TW “personal”, as in “they weren’t team steroids, they came from his personal stash”.
Can the Jurors be prosecuted? Seems to me obstruction of justice charges wouldn’t be unreasonable.
I would say that Jackson truly had a jury of his peers.
Why not go after him for violating the kid’s civil rights in a civil suit? Everybody else seems to make it work.
Jeff, here’s what I think.
No surprise here that these jurors want to write a book. The Judge knew this juror’s grandaughter had signed her up for a book during the trial and left her on. Here’s my opinion: Only guilt, not innocence, sells in America. People don’t want to read about Michael Jackson being innocent. He dropped off the radar screen days after his acquittal. But they will read about guilt. So what else is an acquitting juror who wants to sell books going to do but say she thinks he was guilty and offer a tell-all. It’s sickening.
There ought to be a constitutional way to pass a law prohibiting jurors from writing books profiting off their experiences. Who is going to speak their mind during deliberations knowing their fellow jurors may pen a tell-all afterwards?
What happens inside the jury room should stay in the jury room. It’s none of our business. The verdict is all we need. If something improper happened, like extraneous evidence was introduced, the jurors should tell the lawyers in the case or the Judge who will then decide how to deal with it.
Thanks for the shout-out, glad I stopped in to see it today!