Michael Jackson trial frees AEG Live from financial responsibility

If there was any takeaway from the Michael Jackson Death Trial, is that adult addicts are ultimately responsible for their own actions and fate. Dead or alive.

And families who live off the financial rewards of a cash cow member need to rethink their retirement plans.

And how some doctors will write any prescription script for the right price, buckling to fame and dollars.

And big companies who hire known (or even rumored) addicts for grueling tours need to cover their bases and ensure they are never complicit in any sickness or death of the talent in question.

The Jackson Family was looking for a big post-mortem payday on earner Michael Jackson's career, but the trial gods did not see it their way.

The Jackson family lost in their bid to hold AEG Live accountable for Michael Jackson's death. The trial was a painful exposing of a family either lying or ignorant at just how bad (and obvious) Michael's addiction issues were. And of a big corporation who scrambled to hide the correspondence that showed the executives were wary of Michael's health.

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The jury ruled AEG Live was the hiring agent for Conrad Murray. But the jury concuded that Murray was not incompetent to treat Jackson.

TMZ reported that the jury foreman confirmed this during a post-court news conference where he said they felt Murray was competent to do the job for which he was hired -- a good general practitioner. "That doesn't mean we felt he was ethical. Had that question been in there, it could have been a different outset."