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NEWSFLASH: Michael Jackson Found Not Guilty
NEWSFLASH: Michael Jackson Found Not Guilty On All Charges
King of Pop
Michael Jo Jackson has been found not guilty on all charges
of sexual assault against a minor in a Santa Barbara county
California.
Jackson (46) faced the Santa Barbara County grand jury on 10 counts of molesting a teenage boy in early 2003. He also faced charges of plying the young cancer patient with alcohol in order to abuse him, and of conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
The verdict was announced shortly after 9am this morning and carried live by most major media including Radio New Zealand's morning report. A promised radio feed from the court of the verdict being read did not eventuate.
The verdict read:
CHARGE: 1
Conspiracy
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 2 A lewd act
upon a minor child
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 3 A
lewd act upon a minor child
FINDING: Not
Guilty
CHARGE: 4 A Lewd act upon a minor child
FINDING:
Not Guilty
CHARGE: 5. A Lewd act upon a minor
child
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 6. Attempting to
commit a lewd act upon a minor child
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 7 Administering an intoxicating agent to assist
in the commission of a felony
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 7 Providing acholic beverages to a person under
the age of 21
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 8
Administering an intoxicating agent to assist in the
commission of a felony
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 8
(lesser offence) Providing acholic beverages to a person
under the age of 21
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 9 Administering an
intoxicating agent to assist in the commission of a
felony
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 9 (lesser offence)
Providing acholic beverages to a person under the age of
21
FINDING: Not Guilty
CHARGE: 10 Administering an intoxicating
agent to assist in the commission of a felony
FINDING:
Not Guilty
CHARGE: 10 (lesser offence) Providing acholic
beverages to a person under the age of 21
FINDING: Not
Guilty
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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