Regarding the juror who was going to write a book: The Court took care of that. Is this the end of his office prosecuting Michael Jackson? "No Comment." Criticism of the Judge? None. Evaluation of the defense team? No Comment.
The juror's press conference:
Which witnesses were credible? The telephone people. Kiki and Jesus. That's it.
The timeline was a concern. The mother clearly bombed with them - particularly when she snapped her fingers at them. On adult magazines: anyone could own them. The prosecution didn't prove the charge. They considered every piece of evidence as important. It wasn't one thing. It just wasn't enough. They wondered several times if the accuser's family wasn't running a scam.
Update: Some early legal analysis. Some News Analysis: here and here.
Former LA prosecutor David Conn, who prosecuted the Menendez brothers, said on Keith Olberman's show tonight that Tom Snedden should never have brought the case in the first instance.
Update: Tom Mesereau:
"Justice is done. The man's innocent. He always was."
The blank Verdict form (showing all the choices)is here (pdf.)
The Guardian on DA Tom Sneddon.
Update: More from the juror's news conference:
Jurors said they were especially put off when the mother snapped her fingers at them while on the stand. "I disliked it intensely when she snapped her fingers at us. That's when I thought `Don't snap your fingers at me, lady,' said juror No. 5, a retired widow.
Juror No. 2 indicated he felt the mother singled him out because he was a fellow Hispanic. "The mother, when she looked at me and snapped her fingers a few times and she says, 'You know how our culture is,' and winks at me, I thought, 'No, that's not the way our culture is."
Leaving Court a Free Man
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Update: The "Guilt Sells" Crowd eats crow.