The comments in my last post were very disappointing. The comments pro and con omitted any reference to evidence. Some hoped he was convicted and spent 18 yrs in jail or worst. Some wanted him acquitted with out regarding the possibility that he may be a social predator. I don't get it. We make our political decisions the same way, we draw a line in the sand and will not cross it. Once we do that we close our minds and hearts to any possibility that we may be wrong or there may be a better way. Making an honest mistake dose not make you evil, not making and attempt to correct it just may.
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You are so right! How's that for validation? We all see the world through narrow windows at a distance. I still don't know what to think of Michael though my life experiences tend to make me cynical and lean towards believing him to be a badguy. What a horrific tragedy though if he is as he says he is. How very sad that so many of us think he's wicked if he's not.
He is of course sick and he did of course molest boys, unfortunately the law is the law and the case was at best weak as well as poorly presented.
Alice you may be correct but if we want to import our way of government to the Middle East we will need EVIDENCE. The only thing that is for sure it the the man is strange. It is also sad the county is going bankrupt because of the two year ordeal of administering justice. One day it may just be too expensive to convict the rich!
What's annoying to me, as someone who works in the legal field, is that people don't get that, what we as spectators decide on whether or not he's actually guilty, whether he looks guilty, whether he deserves what he gets, none of that matters in the courtroom. The prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt, with evidence and testimony, that he's guilty of the crimes he's accused of according to the law. Emotions don't matter; coulda shoulda woulda doesn't matter. He could be guilty as sin, and still walk free, if the case isn't successfully proven beyond any reasonable doubt, according to the instructions given to the jury by the Judge.
Miss Vicki clearly has the right of it. The prosecution's case just wasn't strong enough. There may come a day when any one of us is thankful that the law says everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Was he guilty? Of course he was, but ya gotta prove it before ya can convict him...
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