CHICAGO –
R. Kelly’s former enterprise supervisor requested a federal decide to award him $850,000 in attorneys fees after a jury acquitted him throughout the identical trial in Chicago at which the R&B singer was convicted of kid pornography costs.
Derrel McDavid’s legal professional wrote that deserves to recoup the legal fees after enduring a “frivolous, vexatious and dangerous religion prosecution over which he prevailed.” Attorney Beau Brindley filed the 18-page request with U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber late Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
A federal jury final month convicted Kelly of manufacturing little one pornography and attractive minor women for intercourse, however discovered Kelly and McDavid not responsible of conspiring to rig a 2008 trial wherein Kelly was acquitted on state little one pornography costs. A 3rd co-defendant, Milton Brown, was acquitted of receiving little one pornography.
Such motions are exceedingly uncommon and don’t usually succeed, largely as a result of defendants who’re acquitted of felony costs shouldn’t have a proper to compensation.
In his movement, Brindley mentioned prosecutors knew the testimony of two key witnesses was “essentially incoherent.”
“This is, by definition, a reckless disregard for the reality, which constitutes a frivolous and vexatious place by the federal government,” he wrote. “This entitles Mr. McDavid to cheap legal professional’s fees.”
During the trial, prosecutors maintained there was compelling proof that McDavid was conscious that Kelly was producing little one pornography and that he hunted for years to hide proof of what Kelly was doing.
Brindley mentioned McDavid nonetheless owes $600,000 in legal fees and “should now liquidate actual property and different property in an try and pay.” Brindley additionally wrote that he and others spent at the least 1,220 hours engaged on the case and that provides as much as about $65,000 lower than what a “cheap market price” of $750 an hour would price a consumer.
Kelly has not but been sentenced within the Chicago federal case, however he was sentenced earlier this 12 months to 30 years in jail for a federal conviction in New York on racketeering and intercourse trafficking costs.