The price of fame
Not that I really expected a jury to find Michael Jackson guilty, but what does a celebrity have to do to get convicted in this day and age? I mean, Robert Blake damn near confessed to murdering his wife, and he was found not guilty. Kobe Bryant?
Martha Stewart's the only one who actually goes to jail - and by jail I mean minimum security prison - and she's rewarded with her own version of 'The Apprentice' when she gets out.
Something quite odd about all of this I say ...
Martha Stewart's the only one who actually goes to jail - and by jail I mean minimum security prison - and she's rewarded with her own version of 'The Apprentice' when she gets out.
Something quite odd about all of this I say ...
posted by Jmac at 8:33 AM
6 Comments:
AMEN!!
It's not what the celebrity has to do. It's what the police department and the prosecutor do.
I suppose there's reasonable doubt, but hearing what some of the jurors said - including the lady who said she sided with Michael Jackson because she didn't care for the accuser's mother's attitude - gets you wondering that the prosecutor could have produced video footage of the alleged incidents and still get nothing out of it.
Yeah, I think justice might have a better chance of being done if the police just started claiming that these celebrities "resisted arrest" when they first tried to take them in, and that they had to "protect the public" right then and there. No trial that way, which means no star-struck jury that is turned off by the emotional impact that a tragic end to a once great Person of Fame would have.
I honestly believe that a lot of these jurors probably thought that they just couldn't stomach going into the courtroom and condemning soft little MJ to such a miserable riches-to-rags ending. Just easier to let him off. (The accuser will probably get a payday of some kind in civil court anyway, right?)
So it's not all the people who are sickened by celebrities getting off all the time who are the normal reaction? Because that's what I tend to hear.
I have to concur with Hillary. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything to the effect of "Hey, Michael Jackson was acquitted; thank God we still have a working justice system!"
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