CHICAGO — The second week of R. Kelly’s Chicago federal trial continued Tuesday with cross-examination of Lawrence Berkland, a lie-detector test administrator, as prosecutors outlined an alleged conspiracy to cover up Kelly’s alleged sexual misconduct before his Cook County criminal trial.
Berkland first took the stand late Monday and said he was hired by an attorney in August 2001 to test someone about whether he had made copies of a certain videotape, and whether it was the only videotape he had. Berkland gave the unidentified man three tests and he passed all three, he said.
The test subject was relatively uncooperative at first, declining even to give Berkland his name. But when Berkland told him what the attorney said — that the subject would get $200,000 if he passed — the man grew more compliant, Berkland said Tuesday on cross-examination from an attorney representing co-defendant Milton Brown.
