Den folgenden Artikel habe ich im King of Pop Discussion-Forum gefunden. Der Bericht bezieht sich auf die drei Jurymitglieder, die zuerst für schuldig stimmen wollten. Zwei davon, Ray Hultman und Eleanor Cook, wollen ja jetzt Bücher veröffentlichen, wenn man diversen Zeitungsberichten Glauben schenken darf. Das dritte Jurymitglied hat jetzt seine Identität gelüftet und nimmt Stellung zu den ganzen Behauptungen. Katharina Carls, Juror Nr. 9, wird kein Buch über den Fall veröffentlichen, weil sie es erstens nicht will und zweitens keine Zeit dazu hat.
Sie und die anderen Juroren nehmen in dem Artikel auch Stellung zu dem Vorwurf, die Jury wäre beeinflusst worden. Unter anderem soll z. B. ein Court TV Video in den Raum geschmuggelt worden sein mit der Absicht, die Jury zu beeinflussen.
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Jackson HOLDOUT TELLS ALL
By DAVID K. LI
August 7, 2005 -- LOS ANGELES — The last juror who stood between Michael Jackson and freedom said she agonized for days before concluding there's at least a "1 percent" chance his accuser was lying — thus leading her to vote The Gloved One not guilty.
Katharina Carls, the final Santa Barbara County citizen to join her fellow jurors in the 12-0 verdicts for Jackson, said she believed the boy who accused Jackson of molestation. But over the June weekend before jurors delivered their verdicts on June 13, Carls said she couldn't get past the slim chance Jackson's accuser was fibbing.
"I did believe the boy. I still believe the boy and I believe he's [Jackson] a child molester," Carls told The Post in her first extended interview since Jackson was acquitted of 10 molestation-related criminal counts.
The ultimate stumbling block for Carls turned out to be defense lawyer Tom Mesereau's annihilation of the accuser's family members, who were shown to have a history of cheating on welfare and other scams.
"I had to ask myself is there any slight possibility the kid might lie," said Carls, who was juror No. 9. "And I had to say 'yes' to that question and that's where reasonable doubt came."
Carls was among three jurors who reportedly held out for guilty verdicts. But unlike juror No. 1, Ray Hultman, or juror No. 5, Eleanor Cook — who intend to write a book about the experience — Carls, the wife of a local TV reporter, said she doesn't have the time or will to pen a tell-all.
Juror No. 8, Melissa Herard, confirmed that Carls was the final person on the panel to join the 12-0 verdicts. The retired Air Force veteran had kind words for Carls, Hultman and Cook, despite their differences.
Jurors and their representatives reached by The Post defended themselves against a list of published accusations.
They denied reports that a juror sneaked a Court TV videotape into the jury room. According to jurors, Court TV and Santa Barbara County court officials, the jurors accidentally came upon a video sent by the cable news network to Judge Rodney Melville, as a routine part of its request to televise the trial.
As jurors popped in the DVD of the boy's interview with cops on Judge Melville's TV set, they said that's when they came upon the Court TV video that Melville forgot to take from the machine.
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