This came down to a prosecutor either so sure Jackson was bad or so offended by Jacksons combination of celebrity and wackiness that he rushed into a case that looked shaky from hello. It looked worse as Tom Sneddon went along, and had become nearly ludicrous by the time Jacksons ex-wife left the stand. No matter how pure Sneddons motives may have been and Im not saying they were, believe me, he began to look like a man pursuing a vendetta, one whose chief hope of securing a conviction lay in the obvious fact that the trial was a sideshow and the accused waswell, a freak.

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