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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

Former Sun-Times reporter fights subpoena to testify in R. Kelly trial

Former Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis stands in August inside his Northwest Side home with boxes of his research on R. Kelly, which he started collecting in 2000. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The former Chicago Sun-Times reporter whose work first drew national attention to allegations of sexual abuse of minors by R. Kelly is seeking to avoid becoming a witness at the R&B star’s federal child-pornography trial.

Music critic Jim DeRogatis filed a motion Tuesday quash a subpoena from lawyers for Kelly’s co-defendant and former business manager, Derrel McDavid, who sought to call the journalist to the stand.

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