The R. Kelly racketeering trial began Monday as the judge questioned prospective jurors. Our report:
In addition, Kelly’s legal team filed a motion to dismiss a number of the indictments against the singer on Monday morning. The judge said she would give the prosecution time to respond to the motion before making a ruling.
One potential juror confessed to being “uncomfortable” about the gist of the charges. “I have daughters too,” he told the judge. In addition, prosecutors plan to introduce testimony from a 17-year-old boy who claims he met Kelly at a McDonalds in 2006, according to the July filing. Afterwards, the singer allegedly invited the boy, who was underage, to his studio and later propositioned him and had a sexual encounter. Kelly is also accused of telling the boy to vouch for his character to a juror serving on his 2008 child pornography case.
Prospective jurors ranged from a woman who worked in customer service at a retail store and liked listening to music and shopping to a man who said he liked to crochet, was slightly hard of hearing, and initially confused Kelly with the cartoonist R. Crumb; from a marathon runner who loved the soccer star Lionel Messi to a law student whose third year started in two weeks.
Another prospective juror who was currently unemployed but hoped to become a freelance illustrator indicated that he might not be able to look past his Christian upbringing when it came to hearing testimony about “sexual activity between people of the same sex.” The judge chose to excuse him.
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