They never really had much of a case, did they? All the sleaze you heard at the trial was about other things that may have happened and were not related to the actual charges.
Is Jackson one weird dude? He might be, but so what? He’s hardly the only eccentric in show biz. Another famous African-American has been brought low, and sometimes it hardly seems accidental. A war rages while the media focused on this version of bread and circuses.