By the end of his first day-and-a-half testifying in his own defense, R. Kelly’s onetime business manager had shared plenty of information with a federal jury that seemed helpful not only to himself, but to his former boss.
Derrel McDavid derided key prosecution witnesses. He insisted he thought the video at the center of Kelly’s 2008 trial was a fake. And he choked up when he recalled how jurors in that 2008 trial acquitted Kelly — reaching what McDavid then thought was the right decision.
