The defense for R. Kelly and two co-defendants rested Friday at the R&B singer's trial on charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
CHICAGO — The defense for R. Kelly and two co-defendants rested Friday at the R&B singer's trial on charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
Kelly and McDavid are charged with fixing Kelly's 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence. Kelly was acquitted in 2008. Both he and McDavid also face child pornography charges at the federal trial in Chicago. A third co-defendant, Kelly associate Milton Brown, is accused of receiving child pornography.Kelly, 55, already was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June after a separate federal trial in New York.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng sought to show McDavid was so close to Kelly that he couldn't have been completely ignorant of any Kelly misconduct. Asked by his own lawyer, Beau Brindley, if he was in"a different position" to assess allegations against Kelly after sitting through government testimony by four Kelly accusers, McDavid responded:"Yes, I am."McDavid, who previously had testified that he once saw Kelly as a son, was also asked if he had wanted to believe Kelly in the 2000s, including to the end of Kelly's 2008 trial.
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