CHICAGO – A music writer who spent decades raising awareness about sexual misconduct allegations against R. Kelly won’t be required to testify at the R&B singer’s federal trial on child pornography and trial-fixing charges, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Lawyers for Jim DeRogatis, who in 2019 released the book “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly,” invoked legal protections for the press in a Tuesday filing asking U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber to quash a defense subpoena that DeRogatis testify this week.
DeRogatis was a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times in the early 2000s when he anonymously received a videotape that he gave to police and that was central to Kelly’s child pornography trial in 2008 in state court. Prosecutors now allege he paid off the girl in that tape so she would not testify at his 2008 trial, in which he was acquitted.
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