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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Feud erupts between lawyers for R. Kelly, former worker Derrel McDavid

R. Kelly walks with supporters out of the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in June 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

A feud has erupted in R. Kelly’s federal criminal case in Chicago, where lawyers for one of the singer’s co-defendants accused his lawyer Wednesday of “making reckless accusations” in a bid to sever the co-defendant from Kelly’s trial — and perhaps delay it.

Along the way, lawyers for former Kelly employee Derrel McDavid called a 2019 Chicago Sun-Times interview of the late criminal defense attorney Ed Genson a “manipulative interview of a dying man.”

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