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Will R&B's self-described Pied Piper finally get his day in court? Looks like it can go either way. R. Kelly, whose sexually charged lyrics are occasionally redeemed with forays into gospel music, is scheduled to stand trial here Friday on charges he videotaped himself having sex with a female whom the authorities say he knew was at least 13 years old. The case has dragged on since 2002, for often bizarre reasons: One time, because Kelly needed an appendectomy. Another time, the presiding judge broke several bones while climbing a ladder. One of the case's lead...
...Fast-forward six years, to the courtroom of Vincent M. Gaughan, a Cook County circuit court judge known for his prickly demeanor. Gaughan barred attorneys and nearly all court personnel from discussing even basic details about the case. He regularly closed pre-trial hearings and refused to release the transcripts. Gaughan's essential goal, according to one of his orders: "To preserve the dignity of the court and the integrity of the proceedings." That's an especially powerful, ironic argument, given widespread concern that Kelly is receiving preferential treatment because of his celebrity status. Ronald Allen, a Northwestern University professor...
...trial ever opens, it is expected jurors will be shown the video. One odd burden for prosecutors: They must prove that the female in the video was actually a minor at the time of the recording. The alleged victim, now 23 years old, has denied she is in the video. However, prosecutors are expected to call to the witness stand several people, including the alleged victim's relatives, to identify her as the person in the video and establish that she was a minor. In another strange twist, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last weekend that prosecutors will also call...
...were uncovered when a packing case fell out of a truck in a North London high street to reveal the elder brother's dismembered body.) Ter-Oganisyan is now serving a life sentence for the killings, while a co-defendant hung himself at Britain's Belmarsh prison while awaiting trial...
Such disdain for the democratic process raises a question: why bother with elections at all? Other African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...