The judge overseeing the latest R Kelly criminal proceedings yesterday announced his decisions in relation to a number of pre-trial motions as jury selection got underway in a Chicago court.
Perhaps most noteworthy, judge Harry Leinenweber denied a request by the defence that no one who saw the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ documentary should be allowed to sit on the jury.It was following the broadcast of ‘Surviving R Kelly’, of course, that a flurry of charges were made against the musician in multiple US states in relation to the allegations of sexual abuse that had followed him around for decades.This time last year Kelly was in court in New York where he was ultimately found guilty of running a criminal enterprisein order to access and abuse women and teenagers.
That conviction resulted in a 30 year jail term, which – appeals pending – could mean that 55 year old Kelly spends the rest of his life in prison.That possibly makes this second trial in Kelly’s home town of Chicago seem less significant.
Although the charges are different in this case, as is Kelly’s defence team.A rejig of his legal reps relatively late in the day ahead of the New York trial last year resulted in Kelly’s defence in court seeming pretty weak.
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