Subpoena

2022 - 9 - 6

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Music critic Jim DeRogatis seeks to quash subpoena to testify at R ... (Chicago Tribune)

The motion, filed by DeRogatis and his current employer, The New Yorker, alleges that by subpoenaing the longtime journalist to testify, attorneys for ...

He is expected to testify that one of the tapes he’s accused of trying to buy back was in fact a video of Kelly and his then-wife — not the child pornography that prosecutors have alleged. DeRogatis was called to testify in that case, but asserted his First and Fifth Amendment rights and did not answer questions. That effort was unsuccessful, he said. 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. She did not respond to subsequent emails or voicemails from DeRogatis, according to prosecutors. Kelly,” then had a brief email exchange.

Longtime Music Journalist Jim DeRogatis Asks Judge to Quash ... (WTTW News)

Music critic Jim DeRogatis and his employer, The New Yorker, filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber to quash a subpoena filed by ...

He was called to testify at Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial, but McDavid and Milton “June” Brown, two of Kelly’s former employees, are also charged with conspiring to conceal evidence to obstruct law enforcement. District Judge Harry Leinenweber to quash a subpoena filed by Kelly’s co-defendant Derrel McDavid, citing it as “unduly burdensome, unreasonable and oppressive.”

R. Kelly trial: Music critic Jim DeRogatis seeks to quash subpoena to ... (CBS News)

DeRogatis was also called to testify at Kelly's child pornography trial in Cook County in 2008, but declined to answer questions, citing his First and Fifth ...

District Judge Harry Leinenweber to quash the subpoena to testify at Kelly's federal trial in Chicago, accusing McDavid's attorneys of trying to "put his newsgathering on trial." Prosecutors rested their case last week, and attorneys for Kelly and his co-defendants started presenting their case on Thursday, before the judge gave the jury Friday off ahead of the Labor Day weekend. Attorneys for Kelly's co-defendant and former business manager, Derrel McDavid, subpoenaed DeRogatis last month to testify at the trial.

Music critic files motion to avoid taking stand in second R. Kelly ... (Courthouse News Service)

The journalist who literally wrote the book on R. Kelly's alleged sex crimes said he fears his testimony would endanger several whistleblowers he has spoken ...

DeRogatis said in an interview he filed the motion primarily over concerns for journalistic autonomy, arguing that journalists are responsible to the public, not attorneys with the explicit goal of exonerating their client. Columnist Allan Wolper excoriated us and our editors, saying we 'had forgotten for a moment that newspapers report to the public, not to the police,'” DeRogatis wrote in his book. Alternatively, several of the same Kelly supporters that worry DeRogatis criticized him for not taking the stand. Complicating matters is that the city's Dirksen Federal Courthouse was unexpectedly closed Tuesday for an unspecified "operational issue," delaying trial proceedings for at least a day. Jim needs to hit the stand and not plead the 5th this time," one Kelly supporter going by Kaye Wooley tweeted Tuesday. The Court Clerk's Office did not return a request for clarification by press time. Being such a prominent voice in the ongoing legal saga, DeRogatis has been called to testify in Kelly's trials before - including in the 2008 state trial in Cook County that saw Kelly acquitted of 21 child porn charges. Kelly coverage has appeared in numerous high-profile news outlets over the last 20 years, including in The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. The tape, which DeRogatis and the Sun-Times staff turned over to the Chicago Police Department after viewing it, allegedly showed Kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment when testifying in 2008, and said he worked with The New Yorker's attorneys to file the emergency quash motion in district court on Tuesday. His work on the former R&B star's alleged sexual misconduct began in earnest in 2002 when, while working for the Sun-Times, he received one of Kelly's sex tapes from an anonymous sender. But DeRogatis' potential value to the defense goes beyond the 2002 tape.

Former Sun-Times reporter fights subpoena to testify in R. Kelly trial (Chicago Sun-Times)

Jim DeRogatis, a former music critic and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, received an alleged child porn tape central to the current federal prosecution ...

“There are First Amendment freedoms at stake here,” Healey said after viewing a motion filed by lawyers for DeRogatis and The New Yorker. DeRogatis was subpoenaed in 2008, but avoided testifying by asserting his rights under Illinois’ journalist shield law and the First and Fifth Amendments. DeRogatis, whose reporting alongside fellow Sun-Times reporter Abdon Pallasch, documented numerous lawsuits against Kelly that seemed to substantiate rumors swirling around the singer’s alleged abuse in the early 2000s. Those motions to “put [DeRogatis’] reporting on trial” were denied, the reporter’s lawyers state. 15 and is expected to last about a month. At the time, McDavid’s lawyers said emails turned over by prosecutors seem to show that DeRogatis shared a draft of his book, “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly is seeking to avoid becoming a witness at the R&B star’s federal child-pornography trial. Kelly] story over the years,” Healey said. To stay informed: “Jim really drove the [R. That tape, retired detective Dan Everrett testified, has since been lost from CPD evidence files. Kelly from an anonymous source two decades ago.

Music writer fights subpoena to testify at R. Kelly trial (ABC News)

A music writer who spent decades raising awareness about sexual misconduct allegations against singer R. Kelly is fighting a bid to force him to testify at ...

It also cites reports that a window at the DeRogatis family home was shot out after the Sun-Times reported on Kelly. Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm and find AP’s full coverage of the R. It says another key government witness, using the pseudonym “Jane” also testified that she and Kelly were the people in several video excerpts. Tuesday’s filing, also submitted on behalf of The New Yorker magazine, for whom DeRogatis writes, points to rulings by a Chicago-based U.S. Video evidence entered at that 2008 trial is also part of the current trial. Kelly’s lawyers also would be able to question DeRogatis if he takes the stand.