secondEven before the opening speech, the situation was not optimistic R. KellyWhen the depraved hip-hop star was preparing for the trial on Wednesday’s first day in prison, the Brooklyn Federal Court immediately dismissed multiple motions made by the defense at the last minute. The presiding judge, Ann Donnelly, decided that although the lawyer mentioned the so-called statute of limitations, it would not withdraw the accusation of establishing a criminal organization to recruit minors and young women for musicians. The accusation that R. Kelly intentionally infected one of his minor victims with herpes is still part of the process.
The jury consists of seven men and five women, and they will also hear detailed information about the relationship between R. Kelly and Aaliyah in the coming weeks. The producer allegedly married the singer secretly, who died in a plane crash in the summer of 1994. Aaliyah was 15 years old at the time. The defense’s motion to remove R. Kelly’s alleged abuse of minors from the trial was also rejected by Judge Donnelly.
“The so-called victim is a fan who came to him voluntarily”
Maria Cruz Melendez, the assistant federal prosecutor for the Eastern Administrative District of New York, retired accordingly on Wednesday. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party. This is about a predator,” she concluded in her opening speech.
Two and a half years ago, the #MeToo campaign and the documentary “Survived R. In the summer of 2019, the New York prosecutors filed charges. The 54-year-old Grammy Award winner (“I Believe I Can Fly”) is said to operate “System Kelly” with his manager, employees and security personnel to speak to girls, boys and young women in the performance. In front of shopping centers and schools. Subsequently, according to the prosecutor Melendez, the victim was allegedly intimidated, raped and photographed for sex. In order to keep the alleged victims away from the ads, the musician is said to have repeatedly threatened to release these videos. If convicted, he will face life imprisonment.
The defense claimed that R. Kelly was a victim of his reputation. “The so-called victims are fans who come to him voluntarily. They know exactly what will happen. It’s no secret that Mr. Kelly has many girlfriends,” said lawyer Nicole Blank. Becker) said in the opening speech. The defense lawyer rejected the monster picture drawn by the prosecutor’s office for her client. R. Kelly has a “wonderful relationship”. “Ladies and gentlemen, you will hear so many false statements that even the prosecution cannot unravel the web of lies,” Blank Becker tried to prepare the jury for conflicting and different statements.
After a while, the prosecutor asked the first of the six accused victims to stand up. Jerhonda Pace was a member of the singer’s fan club at the time. She participated in R. Kelly’s trial for child pornography in 2008. Two years after R. Kelly was acquitted and released, she saw him again at a party. Although Pace is only 16 years old, she pretends to be 19 years old. When she showed her driver’s license to R. Kelly after the first sexual encounter, it proved that she was a minor, and the musician was said to have instructed her to continue to behave as 19 years old and behave like a 20-year-old. As Pace said, the singer announced that he would “sex train” students who had no sexual experience at the time.
In the following months, the defendant allegedly beat, sexually abused and photographed the young man several times. “Dad”, as R. Kelly wanted to be called, allegedly made Pace starve and asked for his permission before going to the toilet. After being beaten and forced to perform oral sex, she fled R. Kelly’s home in 2010. She took the blue T-shirt that Pace had wiped off the semen from the singer’s face—now it was left to the prosecutor. On Wednesday, whether the prosecutor found R. Kelly’s DNA on the clothes.
