A book by Aphrodite Jones
ISBN #: 978-0979549809
Jones is a reporter who covered the Michael Jackson trial in 2005. She went in believing the allegations against Jackson, but after observing the 5 month trial, and realizing how the media who were spoiling for a Jackson conviction were disseminating a completely different story to the American public than was being told by trial evidence, and witness testimony she changed her position. By the end of the trial she realized that the “not guilty on all counts verdict” was correct, so she decided to write a book. The “Michael Jackson Conspiracy” book is based on evidence from the trial and trial transcripts, and serves as a good review of the strategies and techniques used by Tom Mesereau, Jackson’s lead attorney, to win the case.
This book is worth reading by anyone who is interested in the workings of the legal system, the American concept of race (even though Jackson’s defense astutely chose not to play “the race card” at trial), the American media machine and the business of American celebrity whether or not you are a fan of Michael Jackson the entertainer. I am a life long fan of Michael Jackson who also happens to be interested in law and sociology, but I do not follow high profile trials because I abhor show trials and executions in the mass media or otherwise. So while I did not believe in the 2005 allegations anymore than I believed the allegations from 1993, I did not follow the trial at all. Read the rest of this entry »
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