R. Kelly gets a
"not guilty" verdict on all counts
R&B
singer R. Kelly was found not guilty on all counts today, the
Chicago jury read the verdict today. It took the jury less than
a day of deliberations in his child pornography trial to acquit
the singer of all charges, total of 14 counts. The R&B star was
facing more than 15 years in prison if the jury were to find him
guilty. Following the verdict, R. Kelly left the courtroom
without comment.
Prosecutors had argued that a video tape
mailed to the Chicago Sun-Times in 2002 showed R. Kelly engaged
in graphic sex acts with a girl as young as 13 at the time. Both
Kelly and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they
were the ones on the tape. The main witness of the child
pornography trial against R. Kelly was a woman, who testified
that she engaged in a three-way sex with R. Kelly and the
alleged victim. The turning point was the fact that the man on
the videotape did not have a mole on his back, whereas R. Kelly
did. The defense called an expert who testified that the mark
looked more like a tape glitch than a mole. The jury deliberated
for about 7 hours and found R. Kelly not guilty on all counts.
Published on
06/13/2008
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