{"id":17632,"date":"2021-08-10T04:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17632"},"modified":"2021-08-10T04:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:08:15","slug":"r-kellys-lawyers-want-herpes-bribery-charges-dropped-in-last-ditch-effort-as-jury-selection-beginsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17632","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly\u2019s lawyers want herpes, bribery charges dropped in last-ditch effort as jury selection beginsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostLawyers for disgraced R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly have asked a judge to dismiss numerous criminal charges against the singer, just as jury selection in his sex trafficking trial began.His legal team argued that charges \u2013 including bribing a Chicago clerk to allow Kelly to marry singer Aaliyah even though she was underage \u2013 should be dropped because the statute of limitations had passed.They also argued that the allegation Kelly, 54, knowingly transmitted herpes to some of his other victims is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3144464\/r-kellys-lawyers-move-get-herpes-bribery-charges?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostLawyers for disgraced R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly have asked a judge to dismiss numerous criminal charges against the singer, just as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}