From the press room, the impact of R. Kelly’s defense’s tactics can be murky. But the horrors of the alleged abuse have so far seemed to eclipse the defense’s implication that the victims invited it.
had a pointed question for one of the singer’s alleged sexual abuse victims. During his cross-examination, Cannick tried repeatedly to elicit a description of how the woman was dancing the first time she met Kelly at a 2015 concert. He then came to what appeared to be his smoking gun.
Kelly’s federal trial on charges related to racketeering and trafficking began in U.S. District Court last week. The singer, who has denied all the charges against him, faces an additional federal trial in Chicago on 13 counts including obstruction and child pornography. Kelly has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct since the 1990s, and two alleged victims who have testified so far in his current trial have added disturbing detail to those allegations.
“Some enjoyed the notoriety of being able to tell their friends that they’re with a superstar,” Becker said in her statement.Jerhonda Pace,“You were in fact stalking him, right?” Cannick asked.The defense’s attempts to find inconsistencies in witnesses’ accounts have yielded some bizarre results. Cannick asked Pace somewhat incredulously how it was possible that she went from age 14 in April 2008 to age 16 in May 2009, prompting Pace to explain that her birthday is April 19.
On Wednesday, Cannick continued his cross-examination of the second accuser. He asked her to read a long letter she had purportedly written to her brother, in which she claimed that her parents were pressuring her to begin a sexual relationship with Kelly as a way to extort him. But by this point in the trial—with so many of Kelly’s alleged methods of control already laid out—this wasn’t so much damning evidence as a detour for the prosecution to explore.
During the government’s follow-up questions, the woman testified that her brother never saw the letter. She said that Kelly told her exactly what to say in the letter, which he would keep for protection for himself in the event of a trial like this one.
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