INNOCENT ON ALL COUNTS!!!!
Michael Jackson Jury Reaches Verdicts
Michael Jackson Acquitted on All Counts
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A jury acquitted Michael Jackson on Monday of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch, vindicating the pop star who insisted he was the victim of mother-and-son con artists and a prosecutor with a vendetta.
Jurors also acquitted him of conspiring to imprison his accuser and the boy's family at the storybook estate a total legal victory but one that may do little to improve his bizarre image.
The verdict reached after about 30 hours of deliberations over seven days ended a star-studded, four-month trial that offered a global audience a lurid look into the weird world of Michael Jackson and presented jurors with vastly different portraits of him: a creepy pervert who preyed on little boys, or the victim of a frame-up by mother-and-son shakedown artists.