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OJ and R.Kelly were found Not Guilty too


Enough said about the American legal system.

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The prosecution & particularly the corrupt/incompetent lapd bungled the case against OJ resulting in reasonable doubt.

R. Kelly was "originally" found not guilty because inexplicably the apparent victim flat out denied it was her.

Michael Jackson was found not guilty because the case was extremely weak. There was no tangible evidence against him. The family making the accusations was revealed to have no credibility with a history of fraudulent scams & lawsuits.

Meanwhile nobody is making any scathing documentaries about Elvis and his verified innapropriate involvement with underage girls, eventually marrying one.

Nor Woody Allen, Bryan Singer, Jimmy Paige, Ted "I sexually abused a 12 year old Courtney Love" Nudget etc. You get the idea. The list goes on .

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I mostly agree with you why OJ was acquitted. The prosecution did bungle the case. They thought it was a slam-dunk because they had so much evidence, but they mishandled it. Between that and Simpson having the defence team he had, the result was reasonable doubt.

I don't know anything about the R Kelly thing, so no comment.

MJ's first case was dismissed because the boy refused to testify. The civil case had been settled out of court, and part of the settlement was that neither he nor his parents could speak about any of it.

He was acquitted in the second case partly because his mother was proven to be a liar and a fraud, and because the boy from the first case again refused to be a witness, and because Wade testified that absolutely no molestation had occurred with him.

Elvis died in 1977. That's 42 years ago. He's very old news. As awful as we now know his behaviour was (although, no court cases about any of that), even in 1987 people were turning a blind eye to stars doing whatever to underage girls -- even raping them, and I'm not just talking about statutory rape.

Edit: I see you've now edited your post to add others to try to strengthen your position. Most I know nothing about.

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Yeah, some people here seems to think a "not guilty" verdict means absolute innocence. If only that were true, particularly with rich people!

Put it this way. If your kid asked to have an unsupervised sleepover with an adult man who'd been put on trial for molesting children and found "not guilty", would you give the kid permission?

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Except neither were as extensively scrutinized as MJ was, even after his death.

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Are you serious? I don't even live in the USA and I watched everything related to OJ and R.Kelly

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