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Jurors Shown Sex Tape In Child Porn Trial

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The Associated Press

Published: May 21, 2008

CHICAGO - Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of R. Kelly's child pornography trial in open court Tuesday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl.

The jurors, who had been taking feverish notes during opening statements, sat motionless while the video played. Their eyes were fixed on a 4-by-4-foot monitor just outside the jurors' box.

Kelly, 41, appeared to watch the footage intently on a small monitor on the defense table.

The 27-minute homemade video shows a man having sex with a young female.

The singer, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

During opening statements, Cook County prosecutor Shauna Boliker warned jurors they would have to watch a video depicting an "underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before."

But defense attorneys told jurors in their opening statements that Kelly was not the man on the tape and called the video's origins into question.

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