Idolator

While post-trial commentary has sweated R. Kelly's fame, the Little Man defense, and other colorful parts of the recently concluded circus, jurors in the six-years-in-the-running child pornography trial claim that the reasonable doubt (or "grayness," as one juror described it) that resulted in their "not guilty" verdict revolved around the identity of the girl in the video, not as to whether Chuck and Keith had grafted Kelly's head onto another fellow's watersports so Stephanie "Sparkle" Edwards and her minions could tarnish Kells' good name. Had the alleged victim or her parents corroborated her identity in the video, or had three family members not testified for the defense, the case may have had a very different outcome, mole or no mole. More »