http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=762&e=1&u=/nm/20040317/en_nm/people_kelly_dc MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida prosecutors dropped child p*rnography charges against R&B singer R. Kelly on Wednesday, six days after a judge ruled sex photos were illegally seized from his home. Prosecutors in central Florida had charged Kelly with 12 counts of possessing child p*rnography in January 2003, based on photos that Polk County deputies said showed him engaged in sex acts with a girl under 18. Circuit Judge Dennis Maloney ruled last Thursday that the warrant used to seize the digital photos from Kelly's home was based on insufficient evidence and the pictures were inadmissible in court. Prosecutors filed paperwork with the court clerk's office on Wednesday to drop the charges, said Chip Thullbery, a spokesman for the Polk County State Attorney's Office. "Without the evidence, we can't proceed," he said. Kelly, who is known for the explicit carnality of some of his music with song titles such as "Sex Me," "Your Body's Callin"' and "Bump n' Grind," had denied the charges and was out on bail awaiting trial. He would have faced up to 60 years in prison if convicted on the Florida charges. He also faces child p*rnography charges in Cook County, Illinois, but won a court victory several weeks ago when prosecutors dropped seven of the 21 child p*rnography charges he had faced there. Kelly pleaded not guilty to the Illinois charges, which stem from a 26-minute videotape that allegedly depicted the singer in sex acts with a girl who police say was 14 at the time. Kelly denied he was the person on the tape, but bootleg copies became hot sellers on street corners.
kudos to the authorities who were incapable of getting proper warrants and seizing these pictures legally to move forth a prosecution against an alleged child pornographer. great job, fellas.
warrant schmarrant! They probably just downloaded them off the Internet like the rest of the world, and tried to pass it as permissible evidence.
Haters want to hate, Lovers want to love, I don't even want none of the above, I want to piss on you.
never feel the same when you get a whiff of my hershey stain i want to pee on you drip drip drip use your body as a porto-potty
Good for him, he was innocent. I mean, maybe you could convince me if you had a video of him peeing on the girl, with the girl having 2 forms of government I.D. showing she's under 18, with a cop standing behind her watching it all, then with about 5 of my boys watching and one taking notes, oh yeah and R Kelly's grandmother there to identify that it is really him. I mean, you have to prove to me beyond a reason of a doubt.
