INDEPTH: MICHAEL JACKSON
Quotes on the verdict
CBC News Online | June 14, 2005
"We expected probably better evidence, you know, something that was a little more convincing, and it just wasn’t there."
—Juror number 10
"When a victim comes in and the victim tells you they’ve been victimized, and you believe that and you believe the evidence supports that, you don’t look at their pedigree. We did the right thing for the right reasons."
—District Attorney Tom Sneddon
"Michael, on behalf of mankind, we're sorry."
—sign held by fan outside courthouse
"I thought the prosecution’s case was really ridiculous, and I thought they went to every absurd length they could to try to make something out of nothing."
—Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau
"I disliked it intensely when she snapped her fingers at us. That's when I thought, don't snap your fingers at me lady!"
—Juror number 5, on the behaviour of the accuser's mother on the witness stand
"Like we always felt from the very beginning and knew, he was 1,000 per cent innocent.
It take one person to tell the truth, but it takes many to concoct a lie."
—Jermaine Jackson, brother of Michael
"I would never have married a pedophile. And the system works."
—Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe
"This just in: Saddam Hussein would like his trial moved to Santa Maria, California."
—comedian David Letterman
"What were they thinking?"
—headline, Toronto Sun
"I feel that Michael Jackson probably has molested boys. But that doesn't make him guilty of the charges that were presented in this case."
—Juror Raymond Hultman
"We would hope … that he doesn’t sleep with children anymore."
—Jury foreman Paul Rodriguez
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