Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer’s trial in Chicago.
Derrel McDavid, center, walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago after verdicts were reached in R. Kelly's trial, Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in Chicago. A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R.
Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. 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. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. … I was ashamed.”
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