# Michael Jackson Verdict Reached!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 13, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130 "2005-06-13T19:29:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/41 "2005-06-13T20:51:15Z")
Jackson and Manson? Sounds like a bad sitcom…
> [@](#):
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> What happens when you take a crazed, murderous, racist and stick him with a black but now white faded popstar and his llama?
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/42 "2005-06-13T20:52:15Z")
Just announced. Verdict on all charges, so no hung jury.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/43 "2005-06-13T20:52:23Z")
OJ Did it.
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### Author:  [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/44 "2005-06-13T20:52:32Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Seven days is “quick”?
Considering the jury received 90 pages of instructions alone, and that they took a half day on Monday, they finished much faster than I had anticipated.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/45 "2005-06-13T20:54:35Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> OJ Did it.
Nah. It was Robert Blake.
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/46 "2005-06-13T20:55:43Z")
…and the verdict is 30 pages long, Melville is sitting there looking at every single page. Joe and Michael J. have their eyes on the judge. You can hear a pin drop there and even outside.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/47 "2005-06-13T20:55:53Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> Jackson and Manson? Sounds like a bad sitcom…
Yes. When Manson found out that Jackson would be in the same prison facility he said, “Man, I hope not. That guy’s crazy.”
And penis ensued.
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### Author:  [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/48 "2005-06-13T20:56:32Z")
I’m watching CNN, and they keep showing shoots of the front of the courthouse, but it appears there are only about 40 people there. Where are the huge crowds they’re talking about?
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/49 "2005-06-13T20:56:48Z")
It’s funny listening to Brian Williams trying to kill time until they announce.
“We’re waiting to suddenly hear the audio…”
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/50 "2005-06-13T20:57:33Z")
Judge is reviewing ballots.
Aaagh… _bites nails off_
I didn’t follow the trial much, if at all… but I’m dying to know what will happen in the aftermath of the verdict.
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### Author:  [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/51 "2005-06-13T20:57:36Z")
Er, that should have been “shots.”
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/52 "2005-06-13T20:58:26Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#):
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> …and the verdict is 30 pages long, Melville is sitting there looking at every single page.
Ishmael did it!
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/53 "2005-06-13T20:59:26Z")
I’d guess there’s a good chance of that big freak fan BJ going postal either way.
That that would be good TV.
[http://media.mnginteractive.com/media/paper200/031705\_jacko\_big.jpg](http://media.mnginteractive.com/media/paper200/031705_jacko_big.jpg)
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/54 "2005-06-13T20:59:30Z")
For shame **5que** , for shame 🙂
They need to hurry up already, I’m dying to know. Apparently the judge is reviewing the verdicts.
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### Author:  [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/55 "2005-06-13T21:00:22Z")
I don’t think Michael Jackson fans are “riot” material.
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/56 "2005-06-13T21:00:37Z")
Come on, Judge! I gotta go pee!!!
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/57 "2005-06-13T21:00:54Z")
Next thought, what happens to his kids if he is convicted?
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/58 "2005-06-13T21:01:39Z")
First count:
Conspiracy: Not guilty
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/59 "2005-06-13T21:02:33Z")
Not guilty on all charges so far.
Not surprising.
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-verdict-reached/308130/60 "2005-06-13T21:02:44Z")
Counts 2, 3, 4, and 5:
Not guilty
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