R. Kelly found not guilty in child-porn case

[Lochloosa]

Source: AP

CHICAGO - A Chicago jury has acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly on all counts at his child pornography trial.

The verdict came six years after the singer was first charged with appearing on a graphic videotape with a girl prosecutors said was as young as 13 at the time.

Both Kelly and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they were on the tape. Neither testified during the trial.


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[DS1]

1. Pedophile fist bump

[itsrobert]

2. Sad

I hate when scumbags get off.

[TheWraith]

6. And you know it's true... how?

I don't particularly give a fuck about R Kelly, but some people seem to assume that if you're accused, then you're automatically guilty.

[Oregone]

10. Because Nancy Grace said so.

[madrchsod]

12. i`m so going to watch her tonight

and see if she "blows up real good"......

[madmusic]

24. She's a goddess and always right

:puke: :puke:

[madmusic]

25. Prosecutors say she was 13

But later in the story they say she is 23 now.

Fuzzy math for prosecution by media.

The goddess is going nuts. "The mega star walks free."

[papau]

35. It is not eyewitness or conversation - its a tape with his mole in the right location - guilty!

[TheWraith]

37. Okay, let's take this one thing at a time.

Point one: if you've personally seen the tape, then you're arguing that you've watched child porn.

Point two: If you haven't seen the tape, then you're making assumptions based on what you've been told it shows.

Point three: the prosecutors couldn't even verify the age of the girl who says it's not her in the tape, variously saying she was 13, 15, or 17. That doesn't speak well for their case.

[np33]

42. You are aware

that he paid her and her family off his own brother said R approached him about taking the rap for this. Not to mention people in the industry knows this guy is a total scumbag who prays on kids.

[frickaline]

49. so ... therefore we should forget the courts, try him in the media

and chase him down with rocks in hand?

Oh, I do like a good stoning!

[np33]

41. Not that I would

suggest it but from the people I know who have seen clips of the tape it clearly shows R. Kelly on it.

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[Hydra]

3. Already toast in the court of public opinion

Look at OJ :evilgrin:

[BronxBoy]

21. Not in the Black community he's not.....

Guy's going to make 3 times the money he's making now.

Not justifying, just saying

[Hydra]

31. Sucky

Where I live, you get that charge, valid or not, and you are branded for life.

[iamthebandfanman]

4. unbelievable. he'll always be a pedo in my mind.

i guess his strategy of prolonging this out as long as they could worked.


its him on that tape. even tho he does look a lil different NOW(6-8 years later).

hes a pedophile.

hell, he married a 15 year old.

[TheWraith]

7. Uh, as to that marriage, both parties deny it was anything more than tabloid rumor.

FYI.

[Tatiana]

30. There was an actual marriage certificate. The local papers published it.

The marriage was later annulled, if I recall.

[TheWraith]

36. A tabloid published it, which offers no guarantee of authenticity.

[Oregone]

11. Obama will always be a Muslim in some people's minds....

Despite what the facts say...look, I don't know the "truth". All I can ascertain is that there is very little we can know for sure. But isn't this type of thinking dangerous?

Belief is a greater enemy to Truth than Lies - Nietzsche

[tishaLA]

5. i'm just amazed

well...Robert Blake wasn't convicted either.

[Blue_Tires]

8. wow...6 years

i had forgotten he had been in court all this time...i wonder how many hours his lawyers billed him for this outcome?

[margotb822]

9. I'm sure he'll make another album

and recover the legal costs and then some.

[Blue_Tires]

14. albums? he's way past that and into operettas now

believe it or not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

he certainly has an obsession with boning some other dude's woman...that's been a running theme in his music dating back to when even I used to listen to him in high school...

[Lance_Boyle]

13. break out the doodoo butter!

Golden showers all around! :toast:

[ingac70]

15. Eeww...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiKAdyixU3U

Yeah. It's the R. 40 ounces of mo liquor make me wanna take some if it.


See I roll aroun sittin on dubs cat n I I was high on shrubs. Coolin' in my Escalade, man I'm paid I got it made. Take me to yo special place, close yo eyes show me yo face... I'm gonna piss on it.


Haters wanna hate, lovers wanna love. I don't even want none of the above I want to pee on you. Yes I do I'll piss on you I'll pee on you.


Said yo body, yo body, is a portapody... and a PI Kit. And it knows Karate, knows Karate, knows Karate. I'm a pee on you. Drip, drip, drip pee on you all on you. Piss on you, piss on you. You'll neva feel... quite the same when you get a whiff of my Hershey stains. I wanna poop on you too. I want to pee in yo food. Only thing'll make my life complete when I turn yo face to a toilet seat. I want to pee on you. Yes I do, yes I do I'll pee on you I'll piss on you.

[regnaD kciN]

16. "I believe I can..."

"...screw a 13-year-old and get away with it."

[JeanGrey]

18. Maybe he and OJ and Michael can have dinner with Robert

Blake and talk court procedures.

[JeanGrey]

17. I knew it. I just knew he'd get away with it.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Justice delayed is justice denied. It is sad how this nation treats it Black celebrities.

They are found guilty in the court of public opinion and the actual trial becomes a formality. This "I just knew he would get away with it" is the typical reaction from gullible viewers of the MSM narrative that attempts to portray all African-American men as scary .

[BronxBoy]

23. You do know

That a majority of the Black community thought this guy was guilty.

He has been excoriated by a lot of Black media outlets.

I'm Black and I think he was guilty as hell

[np33]

43. Dude he

was on tape peeing on a under-age girl

[KeepItReal]

20. "You like R. Kelly? You want to help R. Kelly?..."

..."Hide his camcorder...Introduce him to some older women!"
- Huey Freeman

[Jokerman]

39. Vexed, that's the word, vexed.

Huey Rocks!

[BronxBoy]

22. WOW

Another rich fuck getting off

And He's Black!!!!!!!!!!!

America has truly grown racially

:sarcasm:

[Endangered Specie]

26. The curse of Johnnie Cochran ?

[fishwax]

32. what do you mean?

[Endangered Specie]

33. just comparing this to the OJ case.

[sakabatou]

44. "He's gonna use the Chewbacca defense!"

Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

[Carnea]

27. You know I said it on the cuba thread. Sex with a 13 year old isn't pedophilia.

It's statuary rape hell maybe even being Pederasty if it's same sex but it isn't pedophilia and the crime is not committed by any pedophiles that exist.

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. It is an issue of power and control. A 13 year old versus--how much older?

Less experienced in life, more easily led and swayed by someone older and more experienced. Not able to make an informed decision about life.

It would be child rape no matter what gender committed the act.

[Carnea]

29. I'm not saying it's right. I think he belongs in jail if guilty.

It just isn't Pedophilia if he is attracted to teenage girls. It's something else.

[YankmeCrankme]

38. It is if an adult's preferred sexual partner is 13 years old. nt

[AngryAmish]

40. The technical term is ephebophile

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia>

Wikipedia says 15-19. Other definitions I heard were post pubescent but young.

Semantic game because underage is underage.

[YankmeCrankme]

46. I used Miriam-Webster definition of pedophile.

It's really about one's sexual preference and if that is for a child you're a pedophile. Now how one defines child may not be clearly defined.

[FreeState]

47. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation

Pedophilia has absolutely ZERO to do with sexual orientation - and just an FYI "Sexual Preference" is a right wing talking point used to demean GLBT relationships as purely sexual.

[YankmeCrankme]

50. You're reading things that are there. I didn't say orientation, for one.

And my reference to sexual preference implied age not gender, i.e. they prefer children.

[np33]

51. Also

its not as though we are talking about an 18 year old hooking up with a 15 year old. R. Kelly is a man who probably has access to all types of grown woman who would probably be willing to indulge Kelly with every kink of his so the possiblity that he choose a girl this young (she would have been 13 at the time) this imo would put him in the category of pedophilia.

[varkam]

45. I'm surprised.

I suppose that either the man on the tape really isn't Kelly, or the defense team succeeded in creating a reasonable doubt among jurors. Well, either that or the prosecution really bungled handling the case.

[LeftishBrit]

48. OMG, because this is DU...

I instantly thought it referred to Ruth Kelly, a very incompetent, sanctimonious and (unusually for Britain) religious-right, British New Labour Cabinet Minister!!! And I was thinking, "I didn't know she was on trial!"

How sad is that?