Friday, June 13, 2008

R. Kelly Found Not Guilty

R. Kelly has been found not guilty on all charges in his child pornography case. Ugh, everyone knows he's a dirty perv.
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Six years after being charged with making and starring in a child porn video, R&B superstar R. Kelly was found not guilty today by a Cook County jury.

Jurors deliberated for about three hours Thursday and part of today before reaching their verdicts. The jury cleared him on all 14 counts filed against him.

As the first "not guilty" was read, R. Kelly dipped his head and kept it bowed during the entire reading of the 14-count verdict.

When the reading was completed, he took a baby blue handkerchief from his pocket and dabbed the tears streaming down his face. He then bear-hugged defense attorneys Sam Adam Jr. and Ed Genson.

Kelly, who did not testify during his trial, faced up to 15 years in an Illinois prison.

R. Kelly left courthouse to a huge roar from about 75 supporters.

"I love him!" one woman shouted. "I love him! Get that on camera!"

He did not comment to reporters.


(Source: Chicago Sun-Times)

5 comments:

Rachel said...

Oh, God. Unbelievable.

Stacee said...

I'm beginning to think celebrities can get away with anything.

Marlena said...

I'm just sort of worried about the fact that they seemed to be able to get away with saying the tape had been doctored. Is it going to get to a point where no type of evidence is strong anymore? You got a vide of you doing the crime and you can just be like, oh well that's not me, someone must have done somethign to the video!

Anonymous said...

This one shocked me, I thought it was a no brainer.

Anonymous said...

it took 6 years to get into court, did you really think they had him dead to rights. i'm shocked that anyone thought he would be found guilty, but then again i am a cynical bitch