Having a clever Lawyer earning 50 times the prosecutor AND the judge and the ability to call 30 witnesses who are your friends and would say anything to help you. Well you go figure

it seems he got off 1 charge of molestation, but have you forgotten the part where the jury never got a chance when he paid 2 kids around 22 million dollars to settle out a court

Alleged prior sexual crimes (Evidence Code 1108)

Melville allowed the prosecution to present evidence regarding five men, out of seven requested who, as boys, had allegedly been involved in sexual behavior with Jackson.[21] The prosecution called a total of nine people to testify regarding this, including only one of these five alleged victims: Jason Francia; three of the five, Macaulay Culkin, Wade Robson and Brett Barnes, testified for the defense and all said that Jackson had never molested them.[9][22]

The prosecution's purpose in making the allegations was to demonstrate a pattern of behavior by Jackson. Bringing in evidence of so-called "prior bad acts" to suggest that a defendant had a propensity to commit certain crimes is only allowed in a few US states, and only for sex crimes; in California this is Evidence Code 1108.

* Jason Francia (born May 30, 1980) is the son of Jackson's former maid Blanca Francia, who moved from El Salvador to the US in 1975. She worked for Jackson in the period 1986–1991 at the Jackson family home in Encino, Los Angeles, at Jackson's Century City, Los Angeles apartment called "The Hideout," and at Neverland. She often brought Jason along to her work. Jason was a friend of Jackson in the period 1987–1991, when he was 7–10 years old. Jason claimed Jackson touched his crotch twice over his shorts, and once touched his testicles from under his shorts, on each of these three occasions for a few minutes during a tickling game. On the first two occasions he received $100 each for not telling his mother. In 1996 Jackson paid the family $2,000,000 to settle the case. Blanca Francia also received $20,000 for a TV interview, which Jason claimed to have no knowledge of the amount. She testified too, in spite of the settlement. She did not see sexual activity, just an occasion where Jackson and Jason were lying together partly on, partly in a sleeping bag.[citation needed]

* Jordan Chandler, who allegedly was molested by Jackson in 1993 (see 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson), left the country to avoid testifying according to his uncle Ray Chandler. Former security guard Ralph Chacon says that at Neverland he saw Jackson putting Chandler's penis in his mouth on one occasion, and touching Chandler's crotch with his hand on another occasion. However, Chacon's reliability is disputed, as he had past conflicts with Jackson. Chacon's testimony also contradicted Chandler's affidavit. Chacon claimed having seen Jackson molest Chandler in early 1993, before May 1993 in Monaco, when Chandler alleged in his testimony that Jackson started abusing him. Chandler's mother has also testified and contradicted known facts about the case, claiming that she was the one to alert authorities about the relationship between Jackson and her son in September 1993, although authorities were alerted by Jordan's father in August 1993. Former maid Adrian McManus says she once saw Jackson touch Chandler's crotch over his clothes. Bob Jones, who worked for Jackson from 1987 to 2004 as a publicist, was a witness, but he refused to testify at trial.[23] Since Jones had been fired by Jackson in 2004 and subsequently spoke out, he was dismissed by the Jackson family as a disgruntled former employee.[23]

* Macaulay Culkin was a child actor. Phillip LeMarque stated that he once saw Jackson with his hand resting on the pants of Culkin when the two were playing video games. Adrian McManus said he only saw that once Jackson kissed Culkin on his cheek, and had his hand "kind of by his leg, kind of on his rear end." Culkin had not originally wished to testify but after the allegations made by LeMarque and McManus, he appeared as a defense witness to refute their charges.[9] Culkin denounced the molestation allegations as "absolutely ridiculous" and said that nothing inappropriate had happened, that he had never been improperly touched, touched in a sexual way by Jackson or molested by Jackson.[9] Culkin testified that he slept in Jackson's bed several times between the ages of 10 and 14,[9] sometimes with other boys as well. He said the sleepovers weren't planned and that he and others would just fall asleep when they were tired.[citation needed] Culkin was described as "calm" during an "aggressive" cross-examination.[9]

* Wade Robson confirmed that he had slept in the same bed with Jackson, but he denied that anything inappropriate ever happened, including inappropriate touching.[22] Robson's mother, Joy, admitted in cross-examination that her son went missing for three days with Jackson, causing the police to get involved. But, like the sleepovers, she was confident this was all innocent, and her son confirmed it.[24] She said that she trusted Jackson and considered him to be a member of her family.[22] Joy Robson testified that Jordan Chandler and his mother were often at Neverland when she and Wade were, and she felt that Chandler's mother was a "gold digger" who treated Neverland as if it were her own and wanted to be its "mistress."[25] Robson's sister Chantal testified that she had slept in Jackson's room four times during her childhood with her brother and never witnessed anything inappropriate.[22]

* Brett Barnes slept in the same room as Jackson for a year according to the testimony of Barnes' sister, Karlee. Barnes testified that Jackson did not act inappropriately: "No, I wouldn't stand for it."[22][25] Barnes' mother Marie testified that nothing ever happened between her son and Jackson.[22]

Charlie Michaels and Charmayne Sternberg were also planned prosecution witnesses, but they did not testify. The witnesses included some of the "Neverland Five" (former security guards Ralph Chacon, Kassim Abdool, and Melanie Bagnall, former office manager Sandi Domz, and former maid Adrian McManus) who lost a lawsuit in 1995 against Jackson. The two boys of whom Melville did not allow evidence are Jimmy Safechuck and Jonathan Spence.

I actually think the only question that needs answering is whether he was a child predator or just quite dense in the head.

Perhaps the prosecution should do their homework before further posting ......

Personally I really dont care that much to be honest as he is dead. One of my biggest concerns about the whole thing is that his children appear to have been given temporarily to his parents. If all the stories he spouted when he was alive about the terrible, abusive childhood he suffered at the hands of his parents are true then you really have to feel for and worry about his children.

you forgot to add this to the defence's case, same wiki web page

not one single Mickey J fan has answered either question I have asked ..
**would you have let your child stay at M.J if you peeps are so sure ???

But seriously…No I wouldn’t allow my children to have involvement with someone that had had serious allegations of child abuse against them, this doesn’t mean I agree with the allegations nor does it prove they are true, it just means that when it comes to my kids I generally prefer to err on the side of caution. This in itself leads me to question why the parents involved didn’t also play it safe, perhaps their motives weren’t entirely pure.

**If he was found guilty would you M.J lovers still say nice things about him??

not one single Mickey J fan has answered either question I have asked ..
**would you have let your child stay at M.J if you peeps are so sure ???
**If he was found guilty would you M.J lovers still say nice things about him??

so it seems even the staunch supporters of mickey Jay would NOT leave their kids with him,

My personal experiences give me insight into what to look for in a pedophile and I don't see it in Jackson

Hilly stated in another post his refusal to say that he wouldn't encourage sleep overs again at his home. Could this be because he wasn't doing anything wrong?

If you think about it... when a human stops a particular behaviour it is usually because it is recognised (by them, you would hope and others) as being morally wrong

MJ changed his outside appearance, and not to enhance his aesthetics. it was like he didn't like the man in the mirror, he wanted to change who he was changing his face and colour,

After the trails Mj abandoned neverland, he died in a rented posh joint in LA not far from his home. it would seem he did stop the child sleeping stuff.

most child molesters are repeat offenders. its been said they cant help themselvs.

it would seem he did stop the child sleeping stuff..

"Where there's smoke...there's fire".

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She's right.....just look at OJ................but he was found guilty in the wrongful death case.And didn't live up to his end of that decision either.

But it certainly does give in to an old and trusted adage......"Where there's smoke...there's fire".

The commonality between MJ and OJ is that they both walked away from the clutches of the courtroom as innocent when a probable large majority of the public regarded both of them as guilty.

The commonality between MJ and OJ is that they both walked away from the clutches of the legal system as innocent when a probable large majority of the public regarded both of them as guilty.

If someone molested my child, would I take a payout to shut up?........hell no. But on the flip side of the coin, I guess you could ask yourself why an innocent man would want to pay huge sums of money to shut people up and make them go away. Im sure he had his reasons (apart from guilt) just as im sure the parents had their own misguided logic behind their decisions to allow him to get away with what he did.

I guess we could do a comparison with Lindy Chamberlain.