Michael Jackson: The Verdict

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Questions404
That creepy crawler needs some help!!

Umm, no isht. Degenerate. Loser.

[nikki1920]

dayum, she said cut his isht off.. wow!

[Questions404]

Now that the arrest warrant has been issued, why doesn't he just turn himself in? I would never let my child (if I had one) be around an accused child molester. The fans that are on the news right now would let their children stay with him overnight without supervision. This is going to take forever and we will never know if the first child was telling the truth or if this child is telling the truth or if he is telling the truth. Unfortunately, anyone who says on national television that he like to sleeps in the bed with little boys is a raving lunatic and a nasty little perv who needs medical attention along with a lengthy jail term.

[delph998]

LOS OLIVOS, California (CNN) -- Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Michael Jackson on multiple counts of child molestation, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson said Wednesday

"The bail amount on the warrant has been set at $3 million," Anderson said. He also said that Jackson would be asked to surrender his passport when he was taken into custody.

Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, was searched Tuesday as part of the investigation, and two other search warrants were executed in Southern California, Anderson said.

Jackson's spokesman Stuart Backerman said the singer has been in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the past two-and-a-half weeks, shooting a video for the song "One More Chance." That single is on his "Number Ones" album, a greatest-hits collection released Tuesday by Epic Records.

Detective Tim Gracey with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department Gracey said authorities were working to have Jackson "surrender himself within a specific period of time."

Backerman said he did not know what the investigation was about, and promised Jackson, 45, will "cooperate fully with authorities."

Backerman told CNN Wednesday that Jackson's legal team was in talks with Santa Barbara authorities to arrange for Jackson to be taken into custody.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Santa Barbara police have not asked permission to arrest Jackson in Las Vegas, which they would do if they wanted to arrest him immediately rather than allowing him to return to Santa Barbara and turn himself in.

Attorney Mark Geragos -- who has been representing Scott Peterson in a high-profile California trial -- is a paid consultant on the legal team, but has not been determined to be Jackson's lead attorney, Backerman said.

About 70 officials from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's office searched the home for about 13 hours. There was no official word on what they were searching for or may have found.

Jackson's mansion is on a 2,600-acre estate about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Santa Barbara, and features amusement park rides, a petting zoo and statues of children.

According to Backerman, Jackson said: "I've seen lawyers who do not represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with a dreadful allegation just as another project, an album, a video, is being released."

The allegations come almost a decade after Jackson settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of a boy who had slept over at Neverland Ranch when he was 13 and accused Jackson of molesting him. No criminal charges were filed in that case.

Attorney Larry R. Feldman, who represented the alleged victim in the 1993 child molestation lawsuit against Jackson, told CNN on Tuesday that he would "not confirm or deny" that he is representing anyone in a civil or criminal investigation pertaining to Jackson because of possible "violation of attorney-client privilege."

Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson family, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he believes the investigation stems from someone else seeking financial gain from Jackson.


Members of the Santa Barbara County Sheriffs department gathered Tuesday at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch for a search of some 10 hours' duration.
"It is a case of excitement and hysteria because we have the same accusations that we had 10 years ago," he said. "It's like playing the playoffs all over again."

Johnnie Cochran, Jackson's attorney in the case 10 years ago, said it's odd the search warrant was served the day the singer's latest album was released.

"I think it's more than coincidence. I think it was planned," he said on "Larry King Live."

Cochran said he's tried to counsel Jackson "not to ever put yourself in that position" of being alone with young children.

"But that's who Michael Jackson is, he's a very, very naive person in many respects, and there's no question about that. Yeah, he does wear a bull's eye," Cochran said.

Backerman criticized what he called "the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues.

"A rogues' gallery of hucksters and self-styled 'inside sources' have dominated the airwaves since reports of a search of Neverland broke, speculating, guessing and fabricating information about an investigation they couldn't possibly know about," he said.

Terms of the settlement of the lawsuit -- filed in 1993 and settled in '94 -- were confidential, though the boy's attorney -- Feldman -- said at the time they were happy to resolve the matter.

Cochran said at the time that Jackson maintained his innocence and that the settlement was in no way an admission of guilt.

Criminal investigators stopped pursuing their case after the lawsuit was settled and the young boy -- by then 14 -- made clear he did not want to participate in any prosecution of the singer.

CNN correspondents Frank Buckley and Charles Feldman and producer Stan Wilson contributed to this report.

[CrimsonTide4]

Jackson Sought on Molestation Allegations
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"These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released," the Jackson statement said, referring to Tuesday's release of a greatest hits album, "Number Ones."

The district attorney dismissed any connection to the CD's release.

"Like the sheriff and I are really into that kind of music," Sneddon said.

WTF type of IGNANT AZZZZZZZZZZZZZ comment is that!?!?!?!?!?

[CountryGurl]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
WTF type of IGNANT AZZZZZZZZZZZZZ comment is that!?!?!?!?!?

Really,does he mean Pop music?

[sphinxpoet]

Listing to "Billy Jean" on PC and lighting a candle for Micheal!

Sphinxpoet

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
WTF type of IGNANT AZZZZZZZZZZZZZ comment is that!?!?!?!?!?

I was in my car listening to the press conference when he made that comment. You should have heard the roomful of reporters burst out laughing...

I'm like this is serious as h%ll; why are they going "Comicview" in the middle of this?

[decadence]

MFs of AKA*,

I just wanted to post a link here to an interesting (GQ magazine) article from around the time of the other allegations, that I also posted in another thread on Michael today; elsewhere on GreekChat. http://bluemasklover.i8.com/Michael/GQarticle.html
(same article also on other sites just search for +"michael jackson" +GQ in Yahoo to find if that link causes problems).

Thanks.

(pearls of wisdom thread said that's appropriate address?)

[Wonderful1908]

I just don't believe that Mike is dealing with reality here. If he did molest anybody, I think he probably doesn't know it himself. I truly believe this man has the mental rationalization of a child who truly does not know better. Its just sad, I mean his face says it all.

[delph998]

Originally posted by Wonderful1908
I just don't believe that Mike is dealing with reality here. If he did molest anybody, I think he probably doesn't know it himself. I truly believe this man has the mental rationalization of a child who truly does not know better. Its just sad, I mean his face says it all.

I concur

[evaclear04]

I must be extra mean...but I have no sympathy for Mike..none what so ever. By going on TV and saying it's ok for a 40 something year old man to have slumber parties with children basically sets you up for this type of chit. What do you expect? For everyone to be like..."Hey! Normally that would be disgusting and a little wierd but since it's MJ... we'll let it slide"
Try again.

[Gyrl7]

Originally posted by evaclear04
I must be extra mean...but I have no sympathy for Mike..none what so ever. By going on TV and saying it's ok for a 40 something year old man to have slumber parties with children basically sets you up for this type of chit. What do you expect? For everyone to be like..."Hey! Normally that would be disgusting and a little wierd but since it's MJ... we'll let it slide"
Try again.

My mother is saying the same as you. Basically he is doing the damage to himself. Dang and with all this why aint he feeding his own kids warm milk and cookies???

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by evaclear04
I must be extra mean...but I have no sympathy for Mike..none what so ever. By going on TV and saying it's ok for a 40 something year old man to have slumber parties with children basically sets you up for this type of chit. What do you expect? For everyone to be like..."Hey! Normally that would be disgusting and a little wierd but since it's MJ... we'll let it slide"
Try again.

That's the problem. This man has needed serious help for yearsssssssss. His family knew his decisions were not 'SOUND', shucks, we knew it too. GET THE MAN HELP! THIS MAN IS SICK! SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!

[lovelyivy84]

I said this in the More News thread, and I'll say it here.

Help is nice, but not enough. IF this latest allegation is proven true then we all know it will just be one of many times. THe man has SYSTEMATICALLY abused children, and his fame and money have protected him.

He needs to be put under the jail- just like anybody else.