Sex, (Alleged) Lies, And Weird, Weird Videotape

The defense of R. Kelly is stitched together from an argument about a mole, some drama with Jim DeRogatis, and whether a sex tape can be forged, in what is now known as the “Little Man” or “Wayans” defense. Of course, the prosecution would like you to believe that such a forgery would not be possible. Defense witness Charles Palm was on the stand today to make your fake porn dreams a reality.

Defense expert Charles Palm made the clip from a section of the sex tape at the center of the case, using special effects to illustrate how easy it is to digitally manipulate video. The defense hopes Palm can successfully refute the evidence of prosecution expert Grant Fredericks, who said that the tape could not have been digitally altered. Parts of the media have dubbed this the “Little Man Defense” or the “Wayans Defense.”

The clip showed the couple on the tape having sex in what the state says is the hot tub room at Kelly’s former home. Their bodies slowly become transparent, then slowly reappear. Then their heads slowly disappear until their two headless bodies are romping. At one point, the man on the tape – his head intact – appears to be having sex with a headless woman….

Moving on to the tape of the headless couple that he’d prepared, Palm said that there are many commercially available computer software packages that allow people to manipulate video. It is easy to overlay moving images over a stationary background, he said….

It took him only two hours to manipulate a section of the video to show a headless couple having sex, he said. The computer “tools do a lot of the work for you,” he said.

I can only imagine what a thrilling afternoon that was of creating headless couple porn, but since I’m not really a video expert, it’s probably out of my reach. Sadly.

The Kelly Chronicles [Chicago Sun-Times]