An ex-business manager for R. Kelly and his co-defendant at the singer's federal trial in Chicago expressed doubts on the witness stand Thursday about Kelly's insistence in the 2000s that he never sexually abused minors -- testifying a day after the former employee told jurors he had had no reason to doubt his boss was telling the truth.
Derrell McDavid's testimony, which could be a major blow to Kelly's hope of acquittal, came at the end McDavid's second day on the stand. He and the Grammy winner are charged with successfully fixing Kelly's 2008 child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence. Both also face child pornography charges.
With jurors out of the courtroom earlier, Bonjean said she was worried McDavid would -- as he ended up doing -- cast doubt about Kelly's believability. She said it would unfairly prejudice her client in jurors' eyes and, on some counts, seal his fate. Prosecutors are set to start what could be a blistering cross-examination of McDavid on Friday. McDavid's lengthy testimony seemed to open doors for prosecutors to ask him about otherwise barred topics, including evidence entered by state prosecutors at Kelly's 2008 trial.
The ongoing trial in Kelly's hometown is, in ways , a do-over of that 2008 trial. A single video, which state prosecutors said showed Kelly sexually abusing a girl of around 14, was at the heart of that trial. The same video is in evidence at the current trial. On Thursday, McDavid told jurors he and Kelly began to grow apart in the years after the 2008 trial, friction between them highlighted by financial disputes. He quit working for Kelly in 2014, he testified.
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