Michael Jackson Acquitted

Pop superstar Michael Jackson has been acquitted of all charges in his child molestation and conspiracy trial.

The jury in Santa Maria, Calif. announced its verdict this afternoon.

Jackson, 46, was charged with molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor in 2003, plying him with wine and conspiring to hold the boy and his family captive to get them to rebut a damaging television documentary. In the documentary, Jackson held hands with the boy and told an interviewer he let children into his bed, but it was innocent and non-sexual.

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