R. Kelly testimony: Day 1 and 2

First day of testimony:

• The 27 minute tape was shown to the jurors
• video showed two people engaging in a variety of sex acts in a
  log-cabin themed room with a hot tub and a bearskin rug. The poorly lit
  video makes it difficult to distinguish any birthmarks or moles on theman's back when played in real time
• jurors saw police photos that revealed a dark, caterpillar-shaped mole
  in the middle of Kelly's lower back. But defense lawyer Sam Adam Jr.
  told jurors the sex videotape at the center of the case shows a man
  without a mole.
• A woman juror was replaced by white man in 20s. She cited economichardship.
• doubts on the tape’s origins, noting it was not an original but a“copy of a copy of copy.”

Today May 21:

• Simha Jamison, 24, said she met Kelly at a gym called Hoops when she
  was 12. Her friend, the allegedly underage girl, was about six months
  younger and called Kelly --"Godfather."
• Kelly would sometimes give the girl money when they visited him
  downtown. "depending on the situation and the reason she needed it, no
  less than a hundred, no more than $500."
  
• "I kind of know her like the back of my hand," Jamison said. "We got
  our hair cut the same way together. It's a mullet. Short at the top,
  long at the back," Jamison said about the alleged girl in the video.

Quotes: Sun-Times