The latest in the R. Kelly trial finds the R&B singer in another situation that could pull him down further. On August 23, Charles Freeman appeared at the Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago - Kelly’s hometown - to testify against him.
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The latest in the R. Kelly trialfinds the R&B singer in another situation that could pull him down further.
On August 23, Charles Freeman appeared at the Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago - Kelly’s hometown - to testify against him.
In this Chicago trial, Kelly faces various federal charges.
One of them, reported Sky News, was obstruction of justice.
This particular charge against Kelly is connected to the child pornography charges filed against him by the state back in 2008.
In that trial, he got acquitted.
According to ABC News, Kelly allegedly paid his supposed female victim - a minor - not to testify.
The victim’s no-show at the court compelled the jurors to acquit him.
Now on the eight day of this new R. Kelly trial in Chicago, Freeman made a major revelation in relation to his 2008 trial.
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Addressing the press outside the Brooklyn courthouse, Acting U.S. Attorney Jacqueline said, per Eyewitness News ABC7NY:
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Today’s guilty verdict forever brands R. Kelly as a predator, who used his fame and fortune to prey on the young . . . for his own sexual gratification.
A bald man holds an umbrella for R. Kelly who is in a navy suit and dark glasses
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represented three of Kelly’s victims, also made a public statement.
Then this 2014 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Trial Lawyers added:
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Of all the predators . . . Mr. Kelly is the worst.
Will the result of the Chicago R. Kelly trial further validate Atty. Allred’s condemnation?