R. Kelly Not Guilty
R. Kelly Not Guilty
By Rhonda Swan | Friday, June 13, 2008, 04:37 PM
A jury just acquitted R & B hit maker R. Kelly of child pornography, deciding he is innocent of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
I think I’m the only person I know who hasn’t seen the video. Everyone I know who did swears it was him.
Clearly, the jury believed R’s defense that the man having sex with the 13-year-old girl couldn’t have been Kelley cause he didn’t have a mole on his back.
Kelly does.
“The truth be told, there is no mole … that means one thing,” Kelly’s lawyer told jurors. “It ain’t him. And if it ain’t him, you can’t convict.”
The jurors took the sex tape to the jury room where a monitor was set up so they could review it.
Over seven days presenting their case, prosecutors called 22 witnesses, including several childhood friends of the alleged victim and four of her relatives who identified her as the female on the video.
In two days, the Grammy winner’s lawyers called 12 witnesses. They included three relatives of the alleged victim who testified they did not recognize her as the female on the tape.
It took six years to get this far, but it’s finally over.
