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Well of course and its a damn good reason to build a case...Not to say it makes a person guilty or not but its a good reason to build a case.

No it's not. It was one guy's word against another's, totally unproven and failed to stand up in evidence when Sneddon tried to bring a criminal case. That is not a good reason to build a new case, unless we're now taking the view that a mere accusation is evidence enough to presume a man guilty and therefore just cause to believe all other accusations. Which would totally trash the notion of innocent until proven guilty and the foundation of our justice systems.

A man could well be unlucky enough to have two wives die in accidents. But you can't compare that to opportunists picking on easy targets like Michael - accidents pick their victims at random, opportunistic greedy SOBs pick them for a reason. It's not so unlikely that an easy target will attract more than one opportunist - they're an easy target to begin with, but if the first accuser sounded plausible enough to leave suspicion hanging over the victim's head that just makes it all the easier for any more who come along. Because the seed of doubt's already been planted. This was Michael's problem - he was so strange, it was never hard to believe even the weirder shit that got said about him. And then people started taking that weirdness as proof of his guilt.

Now, if the second allegation had been a strong one, that might have lent some credence to the first in hindsight. But the Chandler allegation was far too patchy to have ever really backed up the Arvizos, and the Arvizos were so inconsistent and just generally very dubious characters that they don't lend Jordy Chandler any extra credibility either.

The saddest part about all of it was that Sneddon destroyed any hope MJ had of defending himself because he pushed the conspiracy charge. So regardless of someone saying "I was in the room too and saw nothing." they were instantly thought to be lying because they were in on it and protecting him.

yeah, I never realised how fucked up that was until I started reading up - Sneddon found out a PI for the defence team had got hold of a tape with the Arvizo family protesting Jackson's innocence and quickly worked out that inconsistency would be the line the defence took, so before he got to the grand jury he was able to throw in this conspiracy charge to undermine them (despite it never being in the initial charges he brought). And since the defence lawyers weren't before the grand jury the way they would have been at a preliminary hearing... it was fucked up. A lot of the specific timings of the allegations and charges conveniently chopped and changed as Sneddon got defence evidence that undermined them - when you read the details you can't help wondering whether he was concerned with facts or just nailing Michael any way he could. Though the conspiracy charge in particular never made sense. Like they claimed Michael and his team were planning to 'trap' them in Brazil... but he'd bought them return tickets. They claimed he had trapped them in Neverland... but CPS/the police visited in that time and they said nothing, and the mother went out and saw an attorney. What kind of kidnapper lets you out to go talk to a lawyer?


But then, I never believed the second lot, they were always far too inconsistent. What shocked me though when reading up on shit was the Chandler case. I'd always been far iffier on that one, far more doubtful that Michael was innocent, but the more I read up on it the dodgier it starts looking. I knew Jordy first made the allegation under the influence of a drug, but I had no idea it was his 'I will take Michael down' dad that gave it to him and that it was a drug known to make people very susceptible to suggestion. That and apparently he was in the dentist chair when it happened and the use of this drug in dentistry is abnormal? And I always thought that he'd correctly described Michael's genitals, but it was ruled inconclusive - he couldn't be specific enough to convince them.


Not that this all totally wipes out all doubts I had about Michael, I still find a lot of shit worrying, but it's certainly been enough to sway me a lot more in Michael's favour than I originally was.