Jacko Walks

The Michael Jackson jury did not return a verdict of innocent, as Michael claims.

The verdict was: not guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt" in this particular case.

Despite a preponderance of circumstantial evidence amidst patterns of pedophilia, this jury (who is "reasonably certain" Jackson has sexually molested boys) let Jacko walk on 10 counts -- they disliked the victim's finger-snapping mother.

LARRY KING: Did his lifestyle, which had to be uncommon to 99.5 percent of all of the people, did that throw you?

PAUL RODRIGUEZ (jury foreman): We did consider that a lot, you know, just him sleeping with children and so on, so forth. There's not too many grown men that we know that would do that. But, again, we had to base it on the evidence presented to us, and come out of there with -- deciding on everything with -- beyond a reasonable doubt. I can't emphasize that strongly enough. So if the evidence was there, we would have worked with it but there was a lot of things lacking, so we just didn't have anything that we needed to complete the case.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN, ABC NEWS SR LEGAL ANALYST: So, you did think there might've been a pattern, just not proof beyond a reasonable doubt in this case. Is that what you are saying?

RODRIGUEZ: Yes.

KING: Did you ever, Raymond, come close to guilty on any of the counts yourself?

RAYMOND HULTMAN (juror): I had some real strong feelings toward guilt .....I feel that Michael Jackson probably has molested boys.....but that doesn't make him guilty of the charges that were presented in this case.....and we had to make a decision on that and it showed that there could be reasonable doubt.