LA Times MJ analysis -' The Mother ... Was a Disaster'

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-analysis14jun14,0,5276286.story?coll=la-home-headlines

'The Mother ... Was a Disaster'
By Henry Weinstein and Maura Dolan
Times Staff Writers

June 14, 2005

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Monday, as the Jackson jurors talked about their deliberations, they made clear how well Mesereau's strategy had succeeded.

"What mother in her right mind would … just freely volunteer your child to sleep with someone, and not so much just Michael Jackson but anyone, for that matter? That is something mothers are naturally concerned with," juror Pauline Coccoz of Santa Maria, a 45-year-old mother of three, said at a post-verdict news conference.

Juror Eleanor Cook, a 79-year-old grandmother, spoke of her distaste for the mother's demeanor. The juror "disliked it intensely when she snapped her fingers at us," she said. "I thought, 'Don't snap your fingers at me, lady.' "

Juror Susan Rentschler, 52, of Lompoc, said she was "very uncomfortable" with the way the mother kept staring at jurors as she testified.

Mesereau's strategy triumphed. But ironically, it was a decision by prosecutors that made it possible.

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[rkc3]

1. Gotta give it to MJ - he picks his victims well.

Find a hard luck family, preferably with a bad history and a single mom, treat them well for a while, abuse the kid, and send them on their way. It's a pretty good recipe for success.

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2. Hard-luck scam artists, you mean....

The jury could not prove that MJ is a child molestor. Period. But, they proved that the family were liers and scam artists, willing to submit their children to possible sex molestation, all for the mighty dollar. That mother is the one that should be in jail. She's no foking mother anyway.

I was in my doctor's waiting room when the vertic was announced on the radio. All of us in the waiting room jumped up and yelled 'yes.' We all agreed that the scam artist mother should be arrested, along with Nancy Grace that hollier than thou bitch.

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3. So it's OK for MJ to fondle the kid, it's the mother's fault for putting

the boy in that situation?

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4. MJ is INNOCENT....don't you get it or....

do you have your own system of justice because you were once molested and you never told? The guy didn't have millions for you to spill the beans on him/her.

[rkc3]

5. Hmmmm. I guess I'll go back to work.

[wallwriter]

6. I find both sides--accused and accuser--disgusting and predatorial

They deserve each other

[bemildred]

7. WGAS. Can't we be done with this bullshit now? nt

[realFedUp]

8. It is good when the jury decides to be public

with their comments...it helps everyone understand
the dynamics of the case a bit better.

Maybe seeing the truth is a gene that's
disappearing....

[Pystoff]

9. MSM in tha HOUSE!

If this story/post was a car I'd key the hell out of it.