well, when you are rich, you can bend the laws into knots with your high-paid lawyers, the kind normal folk don't get. (examples abound.) and when you are famous and rich, you can get away with murder (and i mean that in the literal sense, as with the egregious case of wife-batterer o j simpson).
one example of such a situation happened in march 2004, when florida prosecutors dropped twelve charges of child pornography against singer r kelly because the defense got the search thrown out.
A judge had ruled that photographs seized from the singer's home allegedly showing him with an underage girl were seized illegally. [...] Florida Circuit judge Dennis Maloney ruled the warrant used to seize the pictures from R Kelly's home in 2002 was based on insufficient evidence, making the digital photographs inadmissible.without the evidence, the prosecution threw up its hands & threw out their charges (& then, most likely, threw up in the bathroom).
but a glimmer of hope: he still faces fourteen charges of child pr0n in illinois (IL mugshot courtesy of the smoking gun):
A US judge has refused to dismiss charges against American singer R Kelly for allegedly engaging in videotaped sex acts with an underage girl.the prosecution faces serious hurdles - their inability to date specifically when kelly recorded himself raping the minor seems to be causing mass havoc.Judge Vincent Gaughan rejected defence arguments in the Chicago court that prosecutors were too vague about when the alleged crime took place.
Judge Gaughan's decision takes Mr Kelly closer to trial in the three-year case. His next court date is on 9 December.
The singer, 38, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.
Prosecutors originally said the videotape in question was made during a nearly three-year span between January 1998 and October 2000.
frankly i'd like to see him charged with that crime rather than child pr0n, but doubtless he paid off the family à la michael jackson.
worst part of this for me is that r kelly continues to make bank selling highly sexually explicit material.
i'm no prude - "best cock on the block" by bitch & animal is a favourite amusement of mine, with the lyrics, "what can i say? / they can't stay away / from the best cock on the block today / it's eternally hard / i've got five different sizes, shapes and colors."
but i prefer songs not written and performed by a man charged in two separate states for child pornography. that shit just creeps me out, man.
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if it had been an underage boy, do you think the response would have been different? jacko got off twice when he was accused of molesting boys. yet, the catholic church is reeling from allegations of boy rape, but no one talks about the girls that were molested. and you know they were victims too.
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