R. Kelly claims "unknown conspirators digitally dropped him" into video with young girl

The Smoking Gun ^ | 12.2.03

[mhking]

DECEMBER 2--Alleged pedophile R. Kelly is one inventive guy. The 36-year-old R&B singer is under indictment on child porn charges in Florida (where he allegedly possessed illicit still images) and Illinois (where he supposedly filmed himself with a young girl). When he was nabbed earlier this year in Miami, Kelly told cops, according to the below police report, that "former managers" might have been trying to set him up, "taking pictures of people that look like me" cavorting with the underaged. Kelly has now extended that defense, as it were, to his Cook County case, according to a motion filed yesterday. While simultaneously questioning whether his video co-star was a minor, Kelly notes that he might mount a "computer morphing" defense. The performer, it seems, may argue that some unknown conspirators digitally dropped him into the raunchy video (or, perhaps, replaced his of-age consort with a computer-generated partner based on an actual minor girl). This trial should be a hoot--especially when Kelly's legal team calls George Lucas as its first defense witness. Call it the Industrial Light & Magic defense. (6 pages)

[Princeliberty]

Or as he should have said One angry black woman,
like as in Coretta Scott King.

[Princeliberty]

Bin Landen was set up too!

[Boot Hill]

IncPen asks:   "How many FReepers would 'get it' if I mentioned Michael Rivero being called as an expert witness?"

LOL, I don't think he has time now that he has apparently committed himself to being one of Howard Dean's top advisors!   (See "Dean: Bush May Have Been Tipped to 9/11 Attacks")

--Boot Hill

[mhking]

But why would you watch such a thing, knowing what is contained within?

It's called "seeing for yourself." I found it difficult to believe that the allegations could be true. That the girl was actually "visibly" underaged. That the guy on the tape was him. That the tape looked "altered."

Not only am I convinced the guy on the tape is him, I'm convinced the girl is underage, and I'm convinced the tape wasn't altered.

I've seen my share of altered video - usually there are telltale signs (changes in lighting, placement of shadows, obvious changes in head or facial positioning, et.al.). None of those were evident here - it will be difficult at best for a good defese attorney to argue that sort of digital "enhancing."

I'm convinced that the man is guilty of what he did. Watching that video turned my stomach; made me physically ill. My wife (who watched with me) was equally repulsed by what we saw.

Throw that man up under the jail in the deepest dungeon that man can concieve.

[Boot Hill]

"It's called seeing for yourself."

Good for you for taking the time and trouble to do the right thing, and for your patience in explaining it to the nit pickers.

--Boot Hill

[bmwcyle]

Video killed the radio star.

[finnman69]

It wasn't me it was Jar Jar Blinks.

[af_vet_1981]

I believe the victim in this case was black, so the defense can't rely on anti-white racism

Au contraire, that defense will always work with certain juries. They believe there are already too many black men in the prison system and not another one should be sent.