Music critic Jim DeRogatis seeks to quash subpoena to testify at R. Kelly trial

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The motion, filed by DeRogatis and his current employer, The New Yorker, alleges that by subpoenaing the longtime journalist to testify, attorneys for Kelly’s co-defendant, Derrel McDavid, are trying to out his “newsgathering” on trial.

“Because Mr. DeRogatis’ role has been as an investigative reporter, compelled testimony also is invasive as to his newsgathering methods and cumulative of the actual sources and their source materials,” the motion stated.

That same videotape is one of several purported sex tapes at the center of Kelly’s current trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, where Kelly, McDavid, and another former employee, Milton “June” Brown, are accused of conspiring to hide Kelly’s sexual misdeeds by buying back incriminating evidence and paying off or intimidating witnesses.

in early 2019 using a burner email account — “piedpiper312@gmail.com” — that was attached to a pseudonym, “Demetrius Slovenski.” DeRogatis previously told the Tribune that he was the one to initiate contact with federal prosecutors, in an attempt to cultivate sources. That effort was unsuccessful, he said.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.Krull left Chicago in 2020 to care for an ailing relative and is no longer handling the Kelly case.

 

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After 20+ years doggedly hounding RKelly , pretending to support Black girls, music critic Jim DeRogatist, doesn’t want to testify. We smelled the stench a long time ago.

IDK u can really do that, can u? Someone sent him evidence. Of course it is paywall

I can't stand the chicagotribune ... I am an electronic subscriber, but still have to log in to their trash site to read a tweet

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