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マイケル・ジャクソン全面無罪
少年に対する性的虐待などの罪に問われていた米歌手のマイケル・ジャクソン被告に対し13日、陪審団は無罪の評決を言い渡した。
Jackson acquitted of all charges
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - Weakly blowing kisses of gratitude to his screaming fans, Michael Jackson left court a free man June 13 and returned to Neverland to pick up the pieces of his shattered career after he was cleared of all child-molestation charges.
The Peter Pan of pop music could have gotten nearly 20 years behind bars if convicted of charges that he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003.
Jurors also acquitted Jackson, 46, of getting the boy drunk and of conspiring to imprison the accuser and his family at Neverland, bringing an end to a four-month trial in which the star said he was the victim of mother-and-son con artists.
But Jackson's legal victory came at a terrible price to his image. Prosecutors branded him a deviant who used his playland as the ultimate pervert's lair, plying boys with booze and porn.
Defense lawyers described the pop star as a humanitarian who wanted to protect kids and give them the life he never had while growing up as a child star. The boy had asked to meet Jackson when he thought he was dying of cancer.
The defense said the family exploited the boy's illness.
"I haven't been betrayed or deceived by children," Jackson said. "Adults have let me down."
Shukan ST: June 24, 2005
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- acquitted of all charges
- すべての罪で無罪になる
- Weakly blowing kisses of gratitude to 〜
- 弱々しく〜に感謝の投げキスをして
- court
- 裁判所
- Neverland
- ジャクソンの自宅兼遊戯施設
- pick up the pieces of his shattered 〜
- 損なわれた〜を取り戻す
- child-molestation charges
- 児童に対する性的虐待容疑
- Peter Pan of pop music
- ジャクソンのこと
- behind bars
- 獄中で
- convicted
- 有罪判決を受ける
- cancer survivor
- 元がん患者
- Jurors
- 陪審員
- conspiring
- たくらむ
- imprison
- 監禁する
- accuser
- 原告
- trial
- 裁判
- con artists
- 詐欺師
- came at a terrible price to 〜
- 〜に相当なダメージを与えた
- Prosecutors
- 検察側
- branded him 〜
- 彼を〜と呼んだ
- deviant
- 異常者
- ultimate pervert's lair
- 変質者の究極の隠れ家
- plying
- 強いる
- booze
- 酒
- Defense lawyers
- 弁護団
- humanitarian
- 人道主義者
- exploited
- 利用した
- haven't been betrayed or deceived
- 裏切られたりだまされたりしていない
- have let me down
- 私を失望させた