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R. Kelly acquitted on all charges - Lock up your daughters!

June 13th, 2008 by Scott Marks

After six years and a highly publicized case, R. Kelly will not move from out of the closet and into a jail cell. It took the jury assigned the R&B singer’s child pornography trial less than three hours to clear him on all 14 counts filed against him.

Kelly was charged with videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faced a minimum of four years in prison and a maximum of 15 years. He would also have had to register as a sex offender in Illinois.

The jury—nine men and three women—deliberated for about three hours Thursday and part of today before reaching their verdicts.

As the first “not guilty” was read, R. Kelly dipped his head and kept it bowed during the entire reading of the 14-count verdict. It must have felt more exciting than a splash of warm urine to the face.

Kelly never took the witness stand during the trial. After being cleared, he removed a baby blue handkerchief from his pocket and dabbed away his tears of joy.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports, “When word of the verdict spread through the courthouse, some Cook County deputies — as well as lawyers walking through the building’s first floor hallways — cheered.”

Outside the courthouse, approximately 75 of Kelly’s supporters applauded when the verdict was read.

Kelly did not talk with reporters, but a spokesman said, “Most of all, he wants to thank God for giving him the strength to get through this.”

The key question for the jurors was whether they believe it was Kelly in the video, as prosecutors contend. Kelly’s attorneys say it wasn’t him. There were questions concerning a distinctive mole on Kelly’s back that doesn’t appear on the videotape.

The Sun-Times noted, “Defense attorneys keyed in on the fact that the victim, now an adult, has denied she’s the one on the tape. They noted that Kelly’s goddaughter is a ’sweet, nice young lady,’ and certainly wouldn’t have accepted cash for sex, as the girl in the tape is shown doing.”

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R. Kelly jurors shown graphic sex video…again & a discussion of Trapped in the Closet

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R. Kelly jurors shown graphic sex video…again

June 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks

I envision an Elks Club smoker where after the stag reel winds it way through the 8mm projector, some sloshed joker in the back cocks his fez and shouts, “Let’s see it again!”

Perhaps the textural nuance and dialectical montage were too much for the jury to absorb in one viewing. This morning, prosecutors at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial replayed the graphic sex tape at the center of the case, working to lay to rest any doubts in jurors’ minds that the couple depicted on the video were indeed the R&B singer and an underage female.

Emulsion Compulsion has kept quiet long enough. Child porn accusations notwithstanding, R. Kelley is a God. This opinion is not based upon his accomplishments as a singer / songwriter. As a vocalist, I know as much about R. Kelly as I do Kelly Clarkson.

It is the auteur that I embrace. Only the jury will ever get to experience R.’s complete oeuvre. For the rest of us, there is Trapped in the Closet.

It appeared to me on some noxious entertainment program. Kelly was interviewed, clips were shown and my head cocked like a dog’s hearing a can opener. You won’t go hungry with this one.

I have only witnessed Chapters 1-12 mainly because the place where I buy my cigarettes has yet to get a used $3.00 copy of 13-22. There is something to live for!

With a nod to Chaplin, Kelly wrote, produced, co-directed, scored and stars in this serialized video soap opera that’s worthy of Ed Wood. The technical ineptitude is indescribable and there are more racial stereotypes than a ‘Snowflake’ retrospective. It’s certain that Closet devotee and EC lifer Joel Wicklund will have more to add in the comments section. And now back to the news…

During closing arguments, Kelly’s attorney’s insisted that that neither Kelly nor the alleged victim are the people on the tape. And I suppose that wasn’t Marilyn Monroe on her knees and Sylvester Stallone isn’t The Italian Stallion. Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. told jurors that charges stemmed from people trying to extort money from the Grammy winner and noted that the man on the tape “may favor him.”

Kelly’s latest video, People’s Exhibit No. 1, shows a female dancing and urinating on the floor—the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female.

Now do you understand the jury’s need for an encore presentation?

What’s with all the bodily functions? This water sports stuff is almost as indefensible as Kelly’s inability to rhyme (”He’s opening the dresser / I pull out my berreta”). At least he didn’t pull a Chuck Berry.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography. Both he and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape and neither testified at trial.

As reported on Breitbart, defense attorney Adam said that the alleged victim’s relatives know it’s not her on the video because “any solid man in that family, any solid woman in that family would have gone over there and broken his legs, would have gone over there and beat the crap out of him.”


Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 (2007)

 

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