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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

R Kelly jury picked in child pornography, trial-fixing case

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

A federal jury was impaneled Tuesday in R. Kelly's hometown of Chicago to decide multiple charges against the R&B singer, as prosecutors and defense attorneys argued toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Blacks from the jury.

Kelly, who is Black, is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted.

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