After two full days of jury selection, opening statements are slated to begin in Chicago Wednesday morning in the second federal trial for disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly.
The 12 jurors and six alternates were sworn in late Tuesday. They are expected to hear evidence and arguments over roughly the next four weeks.U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber took the bench around 10 a.m. with a rather ominous proclamation: “Things are never intended to be easy,” he said.
Many of those on the panel said they’d heard of Kelly and the accusations against him before, but could remain fair. Some even said they’d seen parts of “Surviving R. Kelly” but had formed no opinion about Kelly himself. She said prosecutors were displaying a pattern against Black jurors that was “quite disturbing,” though the Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeannice Appenteng said they had reasons to remove the jurors unrelated to race.On the flip side, nearly every single peremptory strike by the defense involving the regular jury makeup was of a white person — 12 in all. The defense also moved to strike one Asian woman and one Black woman.
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R. Kelly jury to hear opening statements at trial in ChicagoThe R&B singer is accused of enticing minors for sex, producing child pornography and rigging his 2008 pornography trial.
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R Kelly trial on whether he fixed 2008 trial set to start - New York Amsterdam NewsJury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where the R&B singer faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening and paying off a girl who he allegedly filmed himself having sex with when he was around 30 and she was no older than 14.
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