Deveraux Cannick, the attorney of troubled American singer Robert Kelly better known as R Kelly has stated that accused sex fiend is trying to hold the government to account, by making prosecutors prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The lawyer made the remarks in his closing argument at the singer’s federal racketeering trial Thursday September 23, while comparing him to civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He stated that R Kelly is going about his case in the same way King fought for rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
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Cannick quoted from King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, telling jurors the civil rights leader protested in streets across America because the US government at the time was not being fair and true to all citizens.
“Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press,” Cannick quoted King as saying in the historic address.
