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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

R. Kelly trial: prosecutors tell jurors singer had ‘a hidden side, a dark side’

In this file photo, R. Kelly walks out of the Daley Center after a hearing in a child support case in March 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

Federal prosecutors told jurors that Grammy-winning R&B superstar R. Kelly had “a hidden side, a dark side,” as his child-pornography and obstruction-of-justice trial in Chicago kicked off in earnest Wednesday.

Kelly defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean then countered that the feds’ case is built on anticipated testimony from witnesses she described as criminals with immunity deals. She even questioned whether the alleged victim from Kelly’s 2008 child-pornography trial will take the stand and testify that she appeared in an infamous video with Kelly.

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