Before they retired Tuesday afternoon to consider the federal charges in Chicago against R&B superstar R. Kelly, jurors listened as his lawyer insisted the singer who penned “I Believe I Can Fly” in the 1990s “should not be stripped of every bit of humanity that he has.”
Defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean said Kelly came into his latest trial at a disadvantage, given that most jurors likely started with “not particularly favorable” knowledge about Kelly. She then sought to meticulously dismantle most of the indictment prosecutors first leveled against Kelly three years ago.
