So, despite warnings from some in his entourage, Jackson went about his drug taking, children buying, shopping binges and other bizarre behavior and we seemed to look right past it We telegraphed our approval of his behavior by continuing to support and adore him.
We set no boundaries and he didn't recognize any. Separating the art from the artist has long been a dilemma. History shows we can love the art and not the man. Van Gogh was certifiably insane. The artist Caravaggio had a wicked temper and committed murder.
Yet both were also celebrated as brilliant artists. In the case of Michael Jackson, anointed with titles like King and Superstar, the admiration caused him to believe the rules didn't apply to him.
In our adoration of the artist, we can't forget that men of bad character do valuable things that benefit society in all sorts of ways. They build fabulous institutions, they write meaningful books, they entertain us in ways no others can. Good deeds seep out in spite of their flaws. That doesn't mean their bad acts are OK. Visit Diane Dimond's official website at www.
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He has never accepted any of the outstanding six-figure offers to sell his story. Newspapers and television shows continually dangle tempting deals that would more than pay off his mounting tuition costs, but Gavin is adamant that the passage of time will best tell his story.
He says he knows the truth and believes it will be revealed to the doubters of the world when the time is right. As I sat in church and watched this resilient young man joyfully take a wife, I thought back to all his trials and tribulations. Poverty, violence, near fatal cancer, his punishing and unsatisfying ride through the justice system. He just smiled, grandly shrugged his shoulders and went back to living his life as anonymously as possible. I was raised in the great American Southwest by parents who stressed personal responsibility, integrity, compassion for others and the ability to tell a good story.
Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico I absorbed the moral and ethical values I would carry with me throughout life and use daily as a journalist.
After a humble beginning in Albuquerque radio covering the cops and courts beat I moved east. First, radio in Washington, DC where politics was the name of the game and then to New York where I got my first taste of television.
And always my most fulfilling work was done in the crime and justice genre. My long running syndicated column allows me to deep dive into the human stories behind the headlines on a weekly basis.
Writing books about crime and how society reacts to it still fascinates me. A sabbatical from the column is in order as I write a book about my Judges should have a voice in justice reform.
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Spectators gasped at the sight. Below was the date June 25, The superimposed date: June 24, Prosecutor Walgren explained that the two images were captured just 12 hours apart. Walgren then walked the jury through a long list of heavy-duty narcotics, from propofol to midazolam and lorazepam, that Murray had ordered for his celebrity patient. And then he played a profoundly sad audiotape of a clearly drugged and slurring Jackson talking about his upcoming tour. The barely understandable clip it required subtitles was recorded by Murray on his iPhone for some unknown reason on May 10, The paper trail of pharmacy orders was the first in a string of evidence Murray left behind that would come back to haunt him and help persuade the jury to convict.
Records show he was also busy reading and answering emails, including correspondence with a London insurance company. The defense theory was that after Murray left the room Jackson must have awakened from the small dose of propofol and helped himself to more—or popped several lorazepam tablets—which caused his death.
Experts testified that two minutes was not enough time for that to have happened. To me that seems like the less reasonable possibility. More than a half-dozen medical witnesses testified that Murray was guilty of violating several standards of medical care. Alon Steinberg, a cardiologist, declared emphatically that if that were true, Jackson would still be alive if Murray had called sooner.
But the defense team soldiered on. When first questioned on June 25, Alvarez had said nothing about Murray asking him to help hide propofol bottles, IV bags, and tubing.
Court watchers prepared to see Chernoff skewer Alvarez about waiting so long to tell that story—had he made it all up? Lee checked her meticulous notes on Jackson and was able to say when he had specifically requested propofol.
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