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  • POLICE DOCUMENTS FROM A 2003 RAID ON MICHAEL

  • JACKSON'S AT NEVERLAND RANCH INDICATE THAT HE WAS IN

  • POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OTHER DISTURBING PORNOGRAPHY

  • THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY USED ON CHILDREN THAT WENT TO HIS RANCH.

  • >> LET ME GIVE BOTH SIDES TO THE STORY.

  • FIRST OFF, SO HE HAD

  • PICTURES OF GAY MEN, SO WHAT?

  • AND HE HAD PICTURES OF ADULTS,

  • SO WHAT?

  • THAT SHOULD BE PART OF THE STORY.

  • ANIMAL CRUELTY IS

  • WEIRD AND WRONG, AND WE'RE ALL DISTURBED BY IT, BUT THEN LATER

  • THEY DO EXPLAIN.

  • I WISH THEY HAD NOT MIXED UP ALL THOSE THINGS.

  • ALL THOSE ARTICLES THAT ARE WRITTEN ON IT ARE TALKING ABOUT

  • IT HOW THIS IS SO DISTURBING.

  • HALF OF IT IS DEEPLY DISTURBING,

  • HALF OF IT IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.

  • I DON'T THINK IT IS FAIR TO CALL

  • IT A BIAS.

  • MY PERSPECTIVE IS THAT I ONCE INTERVIEWED MICHAEL

  • JACKSON'S LAWYER AND OFF THE AIR I HAD A LONG CONVERSATION WITH

  • HIM.

  • HE CONVINCED ME THAT MAYBE YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE

  • EVERYTHING YOU SAW IN THE PRICE BECAUSE THE SECOND KID THAT HE

  • WENT TO CRIMINAL TRIAL FOR, HIS FAMILY HAD A LONG HISTORY OF

  • OTHER ACCUSATIONS.

  • YOU GOT ME TO WONDER.

  • NOW FOR ME AT LEAST,

  • THAT ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED.

  • AS YOU LOOK AT THIS, A LOT OF

  • PEOPLE WANT TO GIVE MICHAEL JACKSON A BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.

  • I AM IN THE CAMP AS WELL, I WANT TO GIVE THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE

  • DOUBT, BUT EXPERTS SAY ñ I THOUGHT THE PRESCRIPTION FOR THE

  • SEX EDITION MIGHT'VE BEEN HIM.

  • THEY SAY HE MIGHT HAVE USED THAT

  • ON THE KIDS.

  • SOME OF THAT STUFF MIGHT'VE BEEN TO DESENSITIZE THE

  • KIDS.

  • BUT THEY HAVE SEEN THIS PATTERN IN OTHER CHILD MOLESTERS

  • BEFORE.

  • SO YOU EXPOSE THE KIDS TO A LOT OF PORNOGRAPHY

  • SOMETIMES.

  • SOMETIMES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY TO GET THEM TO GO

  • OH, IT IS NO BIG DEAL.

  • SO IT IS A PATTERN.

  • THERE ARE ALSO OTHER

  • CHARGES A DECADE BEFORE THE CHARGES THAT GOT HIM IN A LOT OF

  • TROUBLE IN 2003.

  • THE ONE BEFORE, THERE WAS A KID AND MICHAEL

  • JACKSON SETTLED FOR $22 MILLION.

  • AND THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF

  • CHARGES.

  • WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF THEM GOT SETTLED FOR MONEY

  • OVERALL.

  • BUT IT IS NOT DEFINITIVE.

  • BUT NO MATTER HOW

  • MUCH MONEY I HAVE, I WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO SETTLE ON

  • CHARGES THAT I MOLESTED A KID FOR $22 MILLION IF I DID NOT DO

  • IT.

  • >>RIGHT.

  • >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTALITY OF IT, AND THE NEW POLICE

  • REPORTS THAT COME OUT, IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.

  • >> IT INTERESTING THAT ALL THIS IS COMING OUT NOW.

  • THERE ARE

  • MEMBERS OF THE JURY THAT ACQUITTED HIM.

  • I WISH THAT SAME

  • STANDARD WAS ACTUALLY APPLIED TO ALL PEOPLE WHO FACE CRIMINAL

  • CHARGES.

  • STEPHEN AVERY POPPED IN MY HEAD AS SOON AS I READ THAT

  • QUOTE.

  • BUT IF YOU ARE SOMEONE

  • LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON YOU HAVE

  • THOSE RESOURCES.

  • WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS IF THEY HAVE PROOF

  • INCLUDING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE PRESCRIPTION FOR SEX

  • ADDICTION, HOW DID THAT NOT PLAY A ROLE IN FINDING HIM GUILTY?

  • >> THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT GREAT LAWYERS BUY YOU.

  • WHETHER YOU ARE

  • THE AFFLUENZA KID, THE STANFORD SWIMMER, OR O.J.

  • SIMPSON.

  • IF YOU

  • ARE RICH AND HAVE GREAT LAWYERS THEY BUY YOU

  • REASONABLE DOUBT.

  • AND THEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE

  • CHARGING THEM, SO THEY MAKE IT ABOUT THE VICTIM.

  • ALL OF A

  • SUDDEN YOU HAVE A LOT OF DOUBT.

  • I HAD DOUBT AFTER I TALKED TO HIS

  • LAWYER.

  • THEN THEY WORK EVERY ANGLE TO EXCLUDE EVIDENCE SO THE

  • JURY CAN'T SEE IT.

  • SO WE DON'T KNOW WHY OR IF THIS WAS

  • EXCLUDED.

  • BUT YOU SAW IN THE O.J.

  • SIMPSON CASE THAT A LOT OF

  • THE EVIDENCE WAS EXCLUDED.

  • NEXT THING YOU KNOW THE JURY DIDN'T

  • GET THE FULL PICTURE AND THEY REASONABLY HAD REASONABLE DOUBT.

  • WHEN YOU SEE ALL OF THIS, HE HAS PASSED AWAY SO THERE IS NO

  • CONVICTING HIM, BUT SOMETIMES THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION HAS

  • MORE EVIDENCE, NOT LESS.

  • DO YOU SEE WHAT I AM SAYING?

  • YOU SHOULD

  • NOT TRY ANYONE AND DECIDE FOR SURE.

  • IN OUR SYSTEM SOMETIMES

  • THE JURY DOES NOT SEE ALL OF THE EVIDENCE.

  • EITHER WAY I KNOW

  • PEOPLE ARE GOING TO STICK TO THEIR POSITION ON MICHAEL

  • JACKSON BECAUSE FOR SOME PEOPLE IT IS ALMOST AN IDENTITY ISSUE.

  • THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE OR ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN

  • THEY LOVE HIM, AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO REJECT HIM UNDER ANY

  • CIRCUMSTANCES.

  • BUT A LOT OF THE EVIDENCE IS THERE AND IT IS NOT GOOD.

POLICE DOCUMENTS FROM A 2003 RAID ON MICHAEL

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