How Many Chances Does Wacko Jacko Get?

Mad4stevie · #1 08-17-2005, 09:16 PM

I am amazed that this clown can disregard two court orders to appear and still not be held in contempt of court and arrested. No judge that I have practiced in front of would ever allow just the attorney to appear and no other "ordinary" person would be able to avoid consequences such as an arrest.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8984683/

NEW ORLEANS - Michael Jackson, who had missed two court appearances in a sexual assault lawsuit, avoided arrest Wednesday by sending an attorney to a hearing in New Orleans, a judge said.

U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon slapped Jackson with a $10,000 fine for missing two previous summonses. The singer’s lawyer, Charles Gay, told a hearing that clerical errors prevented Jackson from responding to the notices.

“Somehow the order did not get conveyed to the right people,” Gay told the court.

Fallon said he would have ordered Jackson’s arrest and possibly a default judgment in the plaintiff’s favor had Gay not attended the hearing Wednesday. The plaintiff is asking for unspecified damages.

The plaintiff sued last November, saying he was lured into Jackson’s limousine during the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans and sexually assaulted. The assaults continued over eight days as the pair traveled to California, the suit alleges. The plaintiff said he was drugged, cut with a razor blade and bitten.

The man waited to sue because the memories were repressed until news coverage of the child molestation charges against Jackson in California revived them, the suit said.

In that case, a jury acquitted Jackson in June of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 2003.

Gay told Reuters he believes the suit is invalid because of a one-year statute of limitations. The plaintiff’s attorneys argue the one-year window opened only when the man, who was 18 at the time of the alleged attack, remembered it in 2003.

Gay promised a vigorous defense.

Fallon set a Sept. 7 hearing to schedule a trial in the New Orleans case.

gldstwmn · #2 08-17-2005, 10:09 PM

You know it's bad when you can't even keep track of who's suing you.

Jackson probably isn't even in the country let alone coherent enough considering all of the *ahem* back medicine he's taking to know what's going on.

golddustdragon · #3 08-17-2005, 10:43 PM

Another kid! Why the **** did the jurors in the previous trial acquit him, dammit. Why?!

gldstwmn · #4 08-17-2005, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustdragon

Another kid! Why the **** did the jurors in the previous trial acquit him, dammit. Why?!

Because the defense managed to cast a bad light on a lot of the prosecution witnesses. Many of them were former employees that had sued Jackson, had some type of criminal record, etc.

DavidMn · #5 08-17-2005, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustdragon

Another kid! Why the **** did the jurors in the previous trial acquit him, dammit. Why?!

very simple. Money and a good attorney

irishgrl · #6 08-18-2005, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by golddustdragon

Another kid! Why the **** did the jurors in the previous trial acquit him, dammit. Why?!

I read that two of the jurors thought he was guilty as hell, and yet they STILL acquitted him. Something is not right here......

Mad4stevie · #7 08-18-2005, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

I read that two of the jurors thought he was guilty as hell, and yet they STILL acquitted him. Something is not right here......

Yes - this is a new development. Two jurors are now saying that they did not want to acquit him, and were threatened by the foreperson that if they didn't go along with the aquital, they would be removed from the jury (which is an invalid threat). Who knows what the hell happened in that jury room