This courtroom artist rendering shows singer R. Kelly, right, listening to prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen cry on the stand at the Cook County Criminal Court Building as his child pornography trial continues in Chicago on Monday, June 2, 2008. Van Allen grew emotional Monday as she alleged several three-way sexual encounters with the R&B superstar and the alleged victim, some of which she said were videotaped.
This courtroom sketch shows R&B singer R. Kelly, right, listening in court as his defense attorney, Sam Adam Jr., gives his opening statement on the first day of his child pornography trial in Chicago, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan presides over the trial. Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of the child pornography trial in open court, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl.
This artists rendering shows R&B singer R. Kelly, right, watching in court as prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial in open court in Chicago on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl.
This courtroom sketch shows R&B singer R. Kelly, right, listening in court as Cook County prosecutor Shauna Boliker gives her opening statements on the first day of Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan presides over the trial. Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of the child pornography trial in open court, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl.
R&B musician R. Kelly arrives at the Cook County building in Chicago, Ill., for the first day of opening arguments for his child pornography trial Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The singer, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to 15 years if convicted. Kelly won a Grammy Award in 1997 for the gospel-tinged "I Believe I Can Fly."