R. Kelly’s Lawyer Gets Chance to Question Government Witness

R. Kelly’s Lawyer Gets Chance to Question Government Witness
R. Kelly performs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 30, 2013. Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP
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CHICAGO—R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she gave what jurors could see as damning testimony against Kelly at his federal trial in Chicago on charges that include the production of child pornography.

Jane, the pseudonym used for her during the trial, has been central to Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades. She testified for over four hours Thursday, telling jurors it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart of his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted.