Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer’s trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted him
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Jurors also acquitted Kelly, 55, of receiving child pornography, one count of child pornography and the obstruction count. He was convicted of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex. His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, plans to appeal.The claim was that Kelly and McDavid conspired to ensure key witnesses at the 2008 trial would lie about Kelly’s sexual abuse of girls and refuse to testify.
“That jury was scammed. They were scammed by Robert Kelly and his fixers," prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors this week, using Kelly's given first name. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her in the video. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. … “I was ashamed.”
Kelly’s payments for Jane’s rent, what they were for and how long they lasted was critical to deciding guilt on the trial-fixing charge.
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