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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

EXPLAINER: R. Kelly acquitted on rigging trial. Why?

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Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer’s trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted him.

Kelly co-defendant and longtime business manager Derrel McDavid was also acquitted on the same count, as well as three other charges.

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