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SOMETIMES, IT'S LIKE JACKSON IS THE SANE ONE AND EVERYONE ELSE IS JUST MAD: Latest worry about the purity of the Jackson jury: Eighty per cent of the potential jurors have a grubby little secret. They're PARENTS.

Good god. There's been a bunch of legal experts wheeled on to hum and haw about this - perhaps it's good for Michael, because they'd know that kids lie. But on the other hand, of course, they might feel angry about people touching pee-pees and wee-wees of their own kids (although, clearly, there's been a parade of kids marching through Neverland the last few years so being a parent doesn't automatically mean you'd be worried about letting your kid be in the company of a man with the whiff of the abuser about him).

We can see there's a need to exclude jurors who turn up in wearing red leather jackets and single gloves, or potentials who grunt "I wanna burn the kid-fiddler" - but surely fretting about whether the jurors are parents or not is taking pre-screening way too far. It's meant to be a jury of his peers, drawn more or less at random from the general population. Justice is hardly served by making it a prerequisite for jurors to adhere to a very narrow set of rules, surely?

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