Public notice

[kengr]

I'm going to say this *once*.

I wasn't on the jury so I can't tell if their decision was legally correct or not. But they found him innocent. Deal. But do so *privately*. It's been bad enough with all the coverage of the trial for months. I don't want to listen to people gritching about the decision now that it's over.

They found him not guilty. So drop it.

(Edited to change "innocent" to "not guilty", thanks janet)

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Well, not guilty, which isn't necessarily identical to innocent, but overall, yeah.

[kengr]

Good point. And I do know better. So I edited it to say the correct thing.

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

Are you saying we shouldn't discuss it in our journals because you don't want to read about it?

[kengr]

You'll do what you want to. Warnings/cut-tags would be nice.

Yeah, he's famous. So? Got any idea how many other, more serious cases the news ignores because the people involved "aren't important"?

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

I probably have no more to say about it, anyway. But the whole reason some of us are so upset about it is that it kinda seems like a big reason why he was acquitted (at least on the alcohol charges and such) is *because* he's famous.

If this had been some average joe, he'd be in the slammer now. I see stories of guys who talk to young girls about photographing their feet, and they get put in jail! MJ and other celebrities can do as they please, though, apparently.