Vindication Day June 13

Ankita

Proud Member
Joined
Jul 5, 2004
Messages
1,225
Points
0
June 13, 2005---The day your Innocence won...

We were there for you then...we shall be there for you forever...

Thank you Michael...for being such Light and L.O.V.E in this dark and desolate world...and for continuing to show us the way still...miss you angel...

Michael Jackson Is Acquitted on All Counts in Molestation Case



By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: June 13, 2005
SANTA MARIA, Calif., June 13 - Michael Jackson was acquitted today of all charges in connection with accusations that he molested a 13-year-old boy he had befriended as the youth was recovering from cancer in 2003.
Enlarge This Image
jack.184.8.jpg
Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Michael Jackson leaving the courthouse on Monday after learning that he had been acquitted of all charges. Mr. Jackson then paused to blow kisses to his many fans outside before returning to his estate.





Mr. Jackson's complete acquittal - a stinging defeat for a retiring prosecutor who had spent more than a decade pursuing the singer on pedophilia accusations - ends a nearly four-month trial that featured 140 witnesses who painted clashing portraits of the 46-year-old international pop star as either pedophile or Peter Pan.

"Mr. Jackson, your bail is exonerated and you are released," Judge Rodney S. Melville said after the string of not-guilty verdicts were read.

Mr. Jackson stood for the verdicts and later embraced his chief lawyer, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. One of Mr. Mesereau's assistants had quietly started sobbing as the first "not guilty" verdicts were read out in court.

Along with the verdict, the jury gave a note for the judge to read out in court. In it, they said they felt "the weight of the world's eyes upon us all" and that they had "thoroughly and meticulously" studied all the evidence. The note concluded with a plea "we would like the public to allow us to return to our lives as anonymously as we came."

The jury of eight women and four men delivered the verdict in California Superior Court here on their seventh day of deliberations, which began June 3. The jury was not sequestered and took weekends off.

Despite their written plea to be left alone, the jurors and alternates gathered for an hourlong news conference in which they were identified only by juror number, though offering a few personal details about themselves in the process of discussing the case with reporters.
"We expected better evidence, something that was a little more convincing," a female juror said, adding she is a mother herself. "It just wasn't there."

Other jurors expressed irritation with the demeanor of the mother of Mr. Jackson's accuser, noting that she had stared at jurors throughout most of her sometimes bizarre testimony and once snapping her finger at them.

Asked about Michael Jackson's celebrity, the jurors said that it had little effect on them, though one juror said the case had "made him real in my eyes" and another said she came to view the somewhat eccentric entertainer as simply an ordinary person.

A middle-aged man said that although he held personal opinions about Mr. Jackson, which he declined to divulge, he sometimes forgot that Mr. Jackson was even in the courtroom. "We're basing our verdict on the 10 counts we were asked to look at," he said, not a particular view of Mr. Jackson.

Mr. Jackson, wearing tinted aviator glasses, a dark blazer, black tie and white wing-collar shirt, looked tense and somber as he emerged from the courthouse with his family and entourage shortly after the verdict was read, and he walked quickly to a waiting sport utility vehicle. Shielded from the bright sun by an umbrella tended by an aide, Mr. Jackson held up one hand in acknowledgement of the ecstatic fans outside cheering his acquittal.
Television helicopters chronicled his caravan's departure for his nearby Neverland ranch under police escort.

When news of the verdict spread through the crowd, a huge roar erupted among his fans, while those who had been hoping for a conviction booed. His fans, many who have maintained that the charges were part of a vast conspiracy, hugged each other, danced and threw confetti.

"Victory! Victory!" shouted Omar Reece, 25, who traveled to Santa Maria from Belleville, Ill. "He's proven himself. People have been trying to stop him for 20 years, to destroy his character, his name. And each time he's come back better, stronger, unbreakable."

Earlier, not long after it was made public that a verdict had been reached, television helicopters arrived over Mr. Jackson's Neverland ranch near here. Cable news channels broadcast a nearly constant stream of images showing Mr. Jackson's small convoy of sport utility vehicles en route to the courthouse for the reading of the verdict. At the courthouse, crowds hastily gathered outside awaiting his arrival as the police ranks swelled as well.

Mr. Jackson was accompanied to the courtroom by several members of his family, including his father and mother, Joe and Katherine Jackson, two brothers, Randy and Jermaine Jackson, and two sisters, LaToya and Rebbie Jackson. He stopped briefly as he walked toward the courthouse lobby to wave to the throngs of fans calling out to him.

Mr. Jackson was prosecuted on 10 felony counts - four of child molesting, one of attempted child molesting, four of administering alcohol to aid in the commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. Together, the charges carried a maximum possible sentence of more than 18 years in prison.

Mr. Jackson was accused of molesting the boy in February or March 2003 at his 2,700-acre Neverland Valley ranch. Prosecutors said the singer had plied the youth with alcohol in order to abuse him and had later conspired to intimidate and restrict the freedom of the boy, who is now 15, and his mother to keep them away from the news media.
But the verdict clearly showed that the jury had found the testimony of the accuser's family - the boy, his mother and his brother - to be not credible.

At a news conference afterward, Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., the district attorney of Santa Barbara County, said that "obviously, we're disappointed in the verdict," but "in 37 years, I've never quarreled with jury's verdict and I'm not going to today."

Asked whether the prosecution's case had been undermined because it depended on testimony from the "wrong family," he replied, "We don't select our victims and we don't select the families they come from."

"When a victim comes in and tells you they've been victimized and you believe that, you don't look at their pedigree," he added. "We look at what we think is the right thing, the right reason."

As the trial progressed and testimony grew more graphic, Mr. Jackson appeared more weary and worn out. On June 5, just two days after the jury got the case, he went to a hospital seeking treatment for back pain.

Shortly after the jury got the case, Mr. Jackson's brother Jermaine Jackson said on CNN that Michael Jackson was "1,000 percent innocent." Asked whether Michael would change his ways if acquitted, Jermaine Jackson said, "He'll become a complete recluse if found not guilty," adding, "He won't be able to deal with anyone because he can't trust anyone."

The case arose from the February 2003 broadcast of "Living with Michael Jackson," a British documentary in which Mr. Jackson admitted sharing his bed with young boys, calling it a loving act unrelated to sex. The boy who later became the accuser was shown holding hands with the singer and resting his head affectionately on his shoulder. He was described as a 13-year-old cancer patient whom Mr. Jackson had decided to help.

The documentary provoked a sensation, reinforcing years of rumor and speculation that Mr. Jackson was unnaturally fond of young boys. It also led Mr. Sneddon, the district attorney for Santa Barbara County, where Neverland is located, to open a criminal investigation, reprising a similar, though unsuccessful, effort in 1993 to prosecute Mr. Jackson on pedophilia charges.

People around Mr. Jackson saw the 2003 documentary as a public relations disaster and sought to isolate the boy and his family. They also made plans for a rebuttal video to undo some of the damage and, not incidentally, make some money.

Their efforts to persuade the family to participate in the rebuttal video and to keep them away from the press, first with a flight to Florida and then several extended stays at Neverland, formed the basis of the prosecution's later charge of conspiracy to commit extortion, child abduction and false imprisonment. It was toward the end of a stay at Neverland, in late February and early March, prosecutors said, that Mr. Jackson molested the boy on several occasions.

Nearly nine months into Mr. Sneddon's investigation, on Nov. 18, 2003, a small army of sheriff's deputies and district attorney investigators descended on Neverland with a search warrant. They spent about 11 hours there, videotaping every corner of the estate and seizing hundreds of items, which they said included pornographic magazines, bedding and a lifelike doll that had been lewdly defaced.

A day later, Mr. Sneddon announced that Mr. Jackson would be charged with multiple counts of committing a lewd act upon a child. He urged other parents whose children had spent the night with Mr. Jackson to come forward to assist investigators; none did.
Thus began 20 months of a sometimes bizarre spectacle that included Mr. Jackson's choreographed airport arrest in November 2003, and his dancing atop an S.U.V. in January 2004 after his arraignment on nine felony charges, as hundreds of fans screamed outside the courthouse. He entered and left accompanied by his brothers Tito and Jermaine and a phalanx of guards from the Nation of Islam.

His lawyer at the time, Mark Geragos, dismissed the charges as nonsense, driven by the vindictiveness of Mr. Sneddon, whose 1993 prosecution fell apart when the accuser in that case withdrew his complaint after reaching a $20 million settlement with Mr. Jackson.
Legal analysts said Mr. Mesereau, , a high-profile defense lawyer from Los Angeles, outargued the prosecution team, but they were less certain that he had made a strong connection with the jurors, who were drawn from the largely conservative area around Santa Maria, a farming community of 90,000.

The jury, selected in less than a week in late February, was an eclectic lot, ranging in age from 20 to 79. Seven are white, three are Latino and one is Asian; the 12th juror declined to define his ethnicity. The only black to sit in the jury box was a young man who served as an alternate and did not participate in the deliberations.

Eight jurors are parents and six said they were fans of Mr. Jackson's music. One had been to Neverland, a 21-year-old man who uses a wheelchair. He said during jury selection that he had visited with a group of others with cerebral palsy. All but two jurors have some college education; three have graduate degrees.

The trial was marked by moments of bathos and melodrama and genuine tension, particularly when the accuser and his mother were on the stand. The prosecution saved perhaps its strongest evidence for last, a videotape of the boy being interviewed by a sheriff's detective. The boy, who was 13 at the time, appeared shy and reluctant to discuss the matter as the officer elicited his account.

The strain on Mr. Jackson throughout the proceedings was evident and no doubt figured in his twice seeking medical attention at a hospital, for flulike symptoms and back pain.
At one point, on a day that Mr. Jackson's accuser was testifying, Judge Melville threatened to revoke the singer's $3 million bail and lock him up for the rest of the trial after a pajama-clad Mr. Jackson shuffled in weakly more than an hour late. The defense said he had been seeking medical treatment at a hospital for a back injury.

The case appeared to take a toll on Mr. Sneddon, as well. The 64-year-old prosecutor had viewed the trial as a means to vindicate his lengthy quest to put Mr. Jackson behind bars. But several star witnesses faltered under withering cross-examination by Mr. Mesereau, and Mr. Sneddon occasionally buried his head in his hands in seeming despair.

The testimony itself often verged on the incredible. The accuser's mother harangued Mr. Mesereau and lectured the jury as she wove a strange tale of being kidnapped by Mr. Jackson's henchmen even as she was spending his money on restaurants, clothes and beauty treatments. She also spoke of a plot by Mr. Jackson's aides to have her and her family disappear in a hot-air balloon.

Mr. Jackson, who did not take the stand, was shown in a videotaped interview talking about how much he loved children and his plans to throw a birthday party for his chimp Bubbles, with a guest list of famous show-business animals like Benji, Lassie and Cheetah from the Tarzan movies.

Testimony laid bare the hidden life of one of the world's best-known entertainers, revealing, for example, that Mr. Jackson called wine "Jesus juice," which he drank from ostensibly soft-drink cans.

Experts also told of the perilous state of Mr. Jackson's finances, saying he was spending $20 million to $30 million a year more than he was making.

Prosecutors painted a dark portrait of Neverland as the lair of a serial pedophile, not a magical place of innocence to compensate for the childhood Mr. Jackson claimed he was deprived of as young performer.

Prosecutors also made use of a California law that permits the introduction in sex cases of evidence of "prior bad acts" or a propensity to commit sex crimes, even if the offenses were never reported or prosecuted.

The defense's chief contention was that the accuser and his family had set up Mr. Jackson for an elaborate scheme, using the boy's illness as a hook. In his summation, Mr. Mesereau repeatedly called the family "con artists, actors and liars" who had pressed numerous celebrities for money, committed welfare fraud and leveled a phony assault charge against J.C. Penney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/national/12cnd-jackson.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
 
Last edited:
Re: June 13

A great day but you can see the damage this did to Michael's psyche. Bless him.
 
This trial - and the 1993 case - destroyed MJ's life!

DAMN those Bast"#"s that did this to him!! Greedy f#¤%ers!!

How peple can do this to an innocent man just to get money is beyond me!! - Hate them from the bottom of my heart!!

MJ Forever!!
 
Re: June 13



I'm watching again and again all these videos from those terrible days and my hurts it pains because when I saw his face that day, I was starting crying
 
Re: June 13

That was a good day, but can anyone imagine how he must had felt, on that day, on his ride to court? Thank goodness, he was declared not guilty and didn't lose his freedom but I think he lost hope.
 
Re: June 13

It destroyed him! - Poor man!
 
Re: June 13

If I had a time machine, I would go back to the past to erase those dark days of Michael's life.... and then everything would have been completely different.



:( *big sigh*
 
Last edited:
Re: June 13

Like some fans had written on signs back then:

On behalf of mankind - WE ARE SORRY MICHAEL!!


So sad he had to suffer so much. All he ever wanted to do (and ever did!!!) was to bring love, joy and happiness to all people of the world. No matter of colour, religion, political views etc. etc. MJ treated ALL the same and spread so much love - and all the media gave him back was lies, hate and unjustice!! - So unfair!! :no:
 
Re: June 13

Michael was Courage and Grace and Faith in the face of all adversity all through his most beautiful, precious, inspiring, but extremely difficult life ...and he won the greatest prize there is ever to win-our hearts and souls...and gave the greatest gift there is ever to give...love and inspiration...

This world did not deserve him...and yet he came, and stayed for all the years that he could...shinning his Light...and he's shinning it still from beyond...through his uplifting music, the global charitable work that continues in his name and through the goodness he has inspired in our hearts...

You did and are still healing and making this world a better place Michael...thank you...thank you...thank you...and yes, as that sign board said on your Vindication day, ................."On behalf of mankind..we are sorry."...............We love you most...hope you realize it now..and never forget..
 
Re: June 13

Like some fans had written on signs back then:

On behalf of mankind - WE ARE SORRY MICHAEL!!


So sad he had to suffer so much. All he ever wanted to do (and ever did!!!) was to bring love, joy and happiness to all people of the world. No matter of colour, religion, political views etc. etc. MJ treated ALL the same and spread so much love - and all the media gave him back was lies, hate and unjustice!! - So unfair!! :no:

I know. It's such a messed up world.

The media did not have to be biased for him. They only had to be fair. Instead they chose to be biased against him.
 
I agree with all of you:(

@Aquirius i know exactly what you mean. What would be going through his mind at that time? Did he say anything to his kids? Its a horrible thought
 
I know. Me too. :( I can't believe it... 8 years. Or more unbelievable I'd say is the past four. I remember that day in 2005 well. I went out to my car at work to listen on the radio because I knew I'd need to be away from everyone else at that moment. It was such a happy day on one side, but such a sad day on the other because the consequences, while thankfully they were not the worst scenario(!), were so harsh to bear for him... Neverland, the years lost, the anguish, the pain, his health and wellbeing. It's just so unfair and heartbreaking. Oh God, Michael, I love you so much. :heart:

You guys, majorloveprayer.org and #powerprayer4mj on twitter are joining today in a special worldwide Vindication Day prayer/meditation/visualization. Hope some of you can join. I'll post the basic info below ~

---------------------------------------------------------------
?? Special Vindication Day PowerPrayer4MJ ??
June13~ 9amPT- noonET- 5pm London- 18:00 Paris
Global time chart http://timeanddate.com/s/2dky
----------------------------------------------------------------
Website:
http://www.majorloveprayer.org/2013/06/special-vindication-day-powerprayer4mj.html
Twitter: @majorloveprayer or hashtag #PowerPrayer4MJ
This meditation to share on Facebook:
http://on.fb.me/11IPsH8


1) Relax, close your eyes, breathe deeply...

2) In your mind picture HUGE letters standing tall like a gigantic solid gold Hollywood sign, saying "MICHAEL JACKSON"! This is a symbol/representation of his legacy in this world. His NAME is attached to everything he left here, and to everything thought, said or printed about him, whether positively or negatively. His name is connected to it all. It is his reputation, his music, his artistry, his image, dreams, words and aspirations.

3) Imagine (just let yourself daydream like a child :)) walking around this gigantic MICHAEL JACKSON sign. Examine the letters closely. Give yourself some time on this. The letters should be beautiful and shiny, so if you see any graffiti or anything "stuck" to his good name (things you've recently heard people say, things you've read, etc), just take a soft cloth out of your pocket and wipe it off. It's a magic cloth designed just for this purpose, to clean off the gunk quickly and easily and make it all shine. Go ahead and imagine each letter of his name made of solid gold... shine it up lovingly! :) What you're doing is an act of love, so just focus on the LOVE! Know that as you do this, it is happening for real in the realm of thought, where reality is first created. These tiny ripples of LOVE are helping to CLEAR MICHAEL'S NAME OF ANY NEGATIVITY in our collective consciousness. If you believe in God or a Higher Power, ask that this is please so, if it can be in accordance with Divine Plan. Ask with your heart.

4) Time to RELEASE THE WHITE DOVES! Just like in 2005 we now release a whole flock of white doves into the sky! And these aren't ordinary doves, but doves made of WHITE LIGHT. They carry the positive essence of INNOCENCE, PURITY and TRUTH wherever they go. Imagine them flying everywhere they're needed, glowing in light and love. Visualize them or just ask them to. We send them to the courthouse in Los Angeles where the current legal cases are taking place. We send them to media buildings... major networks, newspapers, radio shows, publishers. We send them all across the world to spread TRUTH! And we send them to with our UTMOST GRATITUDE to MICHAEL. May he be blessed in joy and peace.

5) Now please say a prayer in your own way that Paris, Prince, Blanket and Katherine are protected from negativity and kept healthy and strong... that the kids hold together as a family with their daddy's LOVE... that Paris finds all the help and support she needs to be truly happy.

Thank you, Lovelies. May you also be healthy, happy and LOVED and allow LOVE to change your heart and the world. Many blessings & gratitude! Michael, we are always yours. ~ the MLP team

Michael+Jackson+Vindication+Day+Innocent+Not+Guilty+June+13+2005+trial.jpg
 
Last edited:
Nevertheless he remained dignified until the end of the trial. And this is very important..he is so strong!!! I firmly believe that he never forgot those moments. He was innocent but unfortunately they humiliated him soooooo much!!! It's unfair.
 
'Lies run sprints the truth runs marathons'
on this day that quote was never more true

Its a disgrace that he was ever put through this
 
I remember that day as if it was yesterday, I had just arrived from school and just in time to hear the verdict. Of course I cried and felt happy but what I didn't know is that it would be such a sad day for Michael.... and of course, he was proven innocent to the whole world but the damage was already done. Like that sign someone held outside the court said, I wish we could apologize in the name of all man kind... that beautiful, kind soul did NOT deserve any of the crap he had to take. :no: Don't worry Michael, we'll always be your soldiers of love and we'll stand by your side no matter what!! :boohoo :bow:
 
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. MJ going back to Neverland. All his neighbours are out supporting him along the road.

[youtube]iUHZQYlRzHA[/youtube]
 
This is a good series about the verdict: the build-up, how the media salivated about the prospect of a guilty verdict, the verdict itself and the aftermath. I can't even imagine what Michael must have felt that day. :cry: I hope once the world will see it for what it was: a 21st century witch hunt.





 




http://youtu.be/ANeI9OtNDfA

From 2008 - Meet the Family_ Vindication Day _ June 13 on Youtube

Thank You to the Fans for coming together in UNITY to Celebrate MJ's Vindication
These are some of the channels that have decorated and changed Backgrounds
In Honor of our Innocent Angel, Michael Jackson


We love You MORE
Rams and Qbees


1PYThriller1 usa
aglarnis14 hungary
bear2836 \
blue12silver canada
borismoric craotia
carlitoparadise argentina
cuttie1hottie1ladeen usa
danaiMJ greece
dani6962 usa
daphnieas guatemala
Desrikya \
djpoet08 usa
HealTheWorldMichael sweden
Heleni6z denmark
hippygravy240 usa
ILoveMichaelJ4Life usa
iTariroKiDD uk
izzy515 philippines
jacksparrow14 philippines
jacmichaelj puerto rico
jamie124mj usa
karenk321 usa
kem21loveMJ29 japan
kisser50 uk
kitkatgirl1909 usa
KylieandMichael
LaReinaMargay argentina
linnjackson \
LittleWierdMonkey sweden
LobJoy08 france
loveformjj4ever usa
LoyalMJfan belgium
luisarmandgarcia usa
madizlena poland
Mananda1 usa usa
Masha202
michaelj8000 usa
michaeljacksonhoo32 usa
MichaelJacksonlover8 usa
mj24685 usa
MJDance1224 usa
MJFAN4ever566 usa
mjfanatics123 usa
MJJgirl92 usa
MJJHIStory08 uk
MJJisback argentina
mjjnaof usa
MJJTributePage netherland
mjlover4life canada
MJLUVDreams netherland
MJProjectGroup \
MJsBabygirl08 usa
mysterykid95 italy
nagman1679 usa
Natttasha15 sweden
nunusmusic usa
PattySandy9 \
PIMPjackson australia
primeradamita argentina
ProudMJJfan philippines
Qbees usa
QueenOfQuickDraw
Radanle sweden
ramss70 italy
RunAroundChic usa
Sarit87 israel
smtinunvrnoe malaysia
sonicadv27 portugal
standardman1969 italy
star18835 \
tinkerbellmj4ever canada
undertakerfan1968 malesia
unknownzone77 usa
wCarolineB \
yommies11 usa
zarance21 philippines
zeromarcy italy
zgrif2 australia
zinara poland

 
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. MJ going back to Neverland. All his neighbours are out supporting him along the road.

[youtube]iUHZQYlRzHA[/youtube]
I love this video too _ I'm always in tears by the end. Michael fans are the best _ They loved him so much.
 
Gosh remembering this day is joyous and painful at the same time. I wish that trial never happened but unfortunately it did but nothing can take away the fact that Michael was proven innocent in court

VICTORY
4MJ ALWAYS
 
God bless you Michael and i'm so sorry you went through what you went through. God was there with you and he made it alright in the end.
 
Back
Top