Jurors have reached a verdict at the trial of R. Kelly, who is accused in Chicago of 13 charges including producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child pornography trial.
The prosecutor’s office said the verdict would be announced soon. The jury deliberated for about 11 hours over two days.after Judge Harry Leinenweber gave them instructions, including explicit descriptions of what constitutes sexual abuse.
Early Wednesday, jurors wrote several questions to the judge, at least one indicating the panelists may be grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities. One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup,” said told jurors
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