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2 Jacko jurors change their minds, he's guilty. Will publish seperate tell all books

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  1. Oski2005

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    Jax jurors bank on flip-flop

    2 now say he's guilty, plan books

    BY MICHELLE CARUSO
    DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF

    LOS ANGELES - Two jurors who acquitted Michael Jackson of child molestation charges now say they think the pop star was guilty - and they are penning tell-all books about the jury's deliberations, the Daily News has learned.
    "Guilty As Sin, Free as a Bird" is the title of 79-year-old Eleanor Cook's tome, according to Larry Garrison, president of Silver Creek Entertainment.

    He will co-write the book with Cook's granddaughter.

    And Ray Hultman, 62, will pen "The Deliberator" along with former Jackson family friend and author Stacy Brown. He co-wrote the successful "The Man Behind The Mask" with Jackson's former publicist Bob Jones.

    "These books are going to rock the nation," said Garrison, a film and TV producer.

    "Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who [initially] voted for 'guilty'" Garrison said, referring to the early balloting in the jury's deliberation process.

    Garrison declined to identify the third juror he said initially voted to convict the pop star.

    On June 13, after 32 hours of deliberation over seven days, 12 jurors voted unanimously to acquit Jackson of charges he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor after plying the boy with alcohol.

    Ironically, in interviews immediately after the verdict, Cook fervently supported the verdicts, and she openly mocked the accuser's wacky mother, whose trial testimony was punctuated with annoying finger snaps.

    "Don't snap your fingers at me, lady!" Cook said at post-verdict press conference where jurors explained why they acquitted Jackson.

    Most said they felt the family had credibility problems and the evidence was weak.

    Garrison declined to reveal what went on in the jury room or why Hultman, Cook and the third juror changed their votes from guilty to not guilty.

    "The jurors had made a pact to stick together" and not talk about what went on in the jury room, Garrison said.

    But after several jurors appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live," Hultman and Cook felt "that was it" and decided to reveal the inside scoop, Garrison said.

    A film about the Jackson jurors' experiences is also in the works, Garrison said.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/334308p-285609c.html
     
    #1 Oski2005, Aug 4, 2005
  2. KingCheetah

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    $ :rolleyes: $ :rolleyes: $
     
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  3. Oski2005

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    What's funnier is that one of them is that old hag who was pissed about the mom snapping her fingers. That lady was all over tv with that gag.
     
    #3 Oski2005, Aug 4, 2005
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  5. Rocket River

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    where is the picture of CATO with the money

    hell the 'runaway' bride got 500k

    Rocket River
    . . . must be the money . . that's turning them on . . . . must be the money
     
    #5 Rocket River, Aug 4, 2005
  6. PhiSlammaJamma

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    I don't care if they write a book or not, but it will be hard to believe the story because the publisher needs to sell this book and they'll need to sensationalize it. Not guilty is boring. Guilty, but I voted not guilty, is drama.
     
    #6 PhiSlammaJamma, Aug 4, 2005
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    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

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    I heard several of the jurors say afterwards that they thought MJ was guilty as hell of being a child molester--just not with this particular child--thus the not-guilty charges. The judge allowed some really damning evidence of MJ molesting other boys.....but the prosecution didn't have enough evidence of MJ actually molesting the boy in the actual case. I imagine this is what these books will be about.
     
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    Incredibly irresponsible.
     
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  9. JuanValdez

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    "Read about how I screwed up my civic duty!"

    When I was doing jury duty on a lawsuit, I initially found for the plaintiff but was in the distinct minority (I think it was 9-3 at first). I eventually conceded and we awarded no money. I talked to the lawyer for the plaintiff afterwards (he wanted to find out why he lost) and he told me a detail he thought he had made plain in court (he hadn't) that would have kept me from voting for the defendant. I went home feeling like crap about it all. But then, the plaintiff was a crook too, so I couldn't feel too bad.
     
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    The best way to see justice done here is to not buy the book(s) and to see Jacko sue them for libel and slander. Then when he's collecting all the revenue from the book sales they may see their error here.

    If they believed he was guilty they should have held out... for a hung jury or something.

    Disgusting.

    Why couldn't they just keep voting guilty? Then write the book of how they stood for justice?


    I'm not a real juror or author, but I was sequestered at a Holiday Inn Express last night. :rolleyes:
     
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    I hate stupid people
     
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    If Law and Order SVU has taught me anything is that these perverts never give up until they're put in jail.

    [​IMG]

    They would of had him serving a life sentence right now. :mad:
     
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    Capitalism! Let's make everything marketable, and right away, because I gotta schedule some face-time with my conscience.
     
    #13 thadeus, Aug 5, 2005
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    Gutless, greedy, silly little people. No doubt they justify it by telling themselves that it's "the American way... go for the cash." Sniveling worms. If he was guilty, then you vote guilty.
     
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    Would have, not would of.
     
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    HA! Would've?
     
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  17. Pole

    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

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    Am I on EVERYONE'S ignore list?

    The jurors are given very explicit instructions: They might believe in their heart of hearts that Michael Jackson is the most despicable child molester to ever walk the face of the earth, but if it hasn't been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he committed the EXACT crimes that he's being charged with, they MUST return a not guilty.

    Therefore, everyone of those jurors might have KNOWN that Jackson molests a different child every day, but if it wasn't proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he molested this particular child, they have to let him go--even if it means not being able to sleep for the rest of their lives. It's a crappy system.....but no one has ever invented a better one.
     
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  18. Deckard

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    It is spelled: "ridiculous" ;)
     
    #18 Deckard, Aug 5, 2005
  19. JuanValdez

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    Probably not a question you want to hear the answer to. :p

    As for the books, the article makes it sound like the jurors now think he's guilty of the crimes they deliberated on.
     
    #19 JuanValdez, Aug 5, 2005
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