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There's an important legal difference between "innocent" and
"not-guilty". It isn't a crime to be rich, eccentric, or a celebrity or to lead a controversial lifestyle. In the United States, if the government chooses to accuse you of a crime it has the obligation to convince a judge and/or jury that you are guilty beyond any "reasonable" doubt. The difference between "innocent" and "not guilty" is a legal difference, not a moral difference, but that's why our system says that the accused will be tried in a courtroom and not in a church. Personally, I'm not absolutely sure that MJ is really innocent......but I'm ready to accept the well-considered opinion of twelve people (who have spent the last several weeks hearing and evaluating the evidence on a full time basis) that the prosecution failed to present a case that transcended "reasonable doubt". They were there, they heard the evidence, and they are surely better prepared to render an informed opinion than the rest of us with only well-filtered, carefully spun snippets from the news. Being weird doesn't make him guilty, it only makes him weird. The outcome is sort of like OJ- even if he did it, (and a high percentage of people will continue to suspect that he did) the prosecution failed to present enough compelling evidence to convice the jury. "Not guilty" (but maybe "not innocent" as well). |
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