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WBEZ joined the Trib, Sun-Times and Associated Press today in filing a petition to unseal R. Kelly's court proceedings. Kelly's trial is scheduled to start May 9, a mere six years after charges that he videotaped himself having sex with underage girls were filed against him.
The petition was filed in Illinois Supreme Court to overturn decisions from Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincent M. Gaughan, who has kept all filings and records of meetings sealed, and has banned lawyers involved with the case from discussing it with the media . Gaughan says he wants to do what he can to make sure Kelly's jury pool is unbiased and that the press could have all the documentation after the trial is over.
Good thing there's no information out there at all about the case. Oh, wait. Here's our favorite comprehensive timeline of the accusations, by former Reader critic Bill Wyman (h/t), which starts with Jim DeRogatis's 2000 story about Kelly's predilection for underage girls. [Trib, Law.com, photo of Kelly from his MySpace page]
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it's gonna be awfully difficult to get a conviction considering he paid off the girl and her family
I think that the trial should be open. Like, you have the right to a public trial. And if you are R. Kelly, THE WHOLE WORLD is your public.
Also: An old witness really undercuts the prosecution's case. Isn't as sympathetic.
I only wish Johnnie Cochran was still alive.
the details in that timeline make me want to vomit.
he's always made me ill, but that's just too much. how much luck can this guy have to get away with all this!?
Spav1
I hope you mean you wish Johnnie Cochran was alive to prosecute R Baby Rapist Kelly!
Spook:
If you mean "alleged" Rapist...I will settle for Mark Geragos himself. Or Gloria Allred.
R. Kelly. 100% NOT GUILTY.
Oh my God a rubber!
Spav1 both a friend of cops who kill their wives and R &B child rapists. Who will you befriend next? War Criminals?
I find it hard to believe the state will get a conviction . Money can by immunity from justice in this country. Kelly has paid off the alleged victim and the state is guessing on the date of the "rape". 6 years of motions has left the states case very weak plus this guy is a charismatic star who will blind the jury or at least one or two of them, no conviction here. The sad part is all the storys that R.Kelly hasnt learned anything and still like his ladys young.
Not ladies, its Children. I'm remain hopefully for justice that failing, then old frontier Justice from "Tony Sapprano"