Originally Posted by Mako

He'll walk, won't even be close. Defense accurately painted the accuser's parents out to be $$$ extortionists. That doesn't mean the acts the prosecution are alleging didn't happen, but it does mean that the jury can't convict Jackson beyond a reasonable doubt.

They just didn't have enough hard evidence to make it a home run. It's ironically similar to the Kobe Bryant case, where the defense accurately painted the accuser as being a whore by demonstrating how she "bragged" to friends about her time with Kobe the very next day, and had been "involved" with a Denver Nugget NBA player previously.

In both cases, we'll never know what really happened, despite full court cases having been heard.