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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Jury of 8 women, 4 men selected to decide R. Kelly’s fate in latest Chicago trial

R. Kelly walks into the Daley Center in Chicago for a hearing in a child support case in March 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo)

A jury of eight women and four men has been chosen to hear the federal criminal case against R&B superstar R. Kelly in Chicago, a group that includes three jurors federal prosecutors sought to keep off the panel.

The three jurors, who are Black, were restored to the jury after defense attorneys accused the feds of improperly striking them based on race.

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