{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Michael Jackson: Not Guilty Doesn’t Mean Innocent","description":"Michael Jackson walked out of a California courthouse a free man. Then he left the country. Then he never set foot in Neverland again. Whatever the verdict meant legally, it cost him something no jury could return.\n\nThis episode is the 2005 criminal trial in full. The Martin Bashir documentary where Jackson held a boy’s hand on camera and told the world that sharing his bed with children wasn’t sexual. The charges that followed. The teenage cancer survivor who testified Jackson abused him. The prosecution’s pattern witnesses who described behavior stretching back a decade. And the defense’s systematic demolition of the accuser’s family — a mother who’d lied under oath, committed welfare fraud, and alienated the jury so completely that one juror called her a scam artist.\n\nThen there are the defense witnesses who matter beyond this trial. Macaulay Culkin said nothing happened. Wade Robson said nothing happened — under oath, clearly, convincingly. Robson’s testimony helped acquit Jackson. And then Robson reversed everything. That reversal is the next episode. But this one matters because the acquittal is the most misunderstood moment in this entire saga. Not guilty is a legal determination. Some jurors believed Jackson probably did abuse children. They just couldn’t convict on this case, with this family, under this burden of proof.\n\nJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/\n\nWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1\n\nInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/\n\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/\n\nTik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod\n\nX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod\n\nThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.\n\n#MichaelJackson #MJTrial #NotGuilty #GavinArvizo #Neverland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #WadeRobson #MacaulayCulkin #KingOfPop","author_name":"Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5040505-hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43621795/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}