this is a CNN.com extract, what do you think
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A prosecution witness used images of a lower back mole Thursday to link R. Kelly to a sex tape at the center of the R&B star's child pornography trial.


R. Kelly denies that he was the man featured on a videotape having sex with an underage girl.

The potentially damaging testimony came a week after the singer's own attorneys brought up the mole in their opening statements. A defense attorney argued then that because the man in the graphic 27-minute tape did not have a mole, that man could not be Kelly.

But on Thursday, video forensics expert Grant Fredericks froze several frames of the sex tape where a dark spot was visible on the man's back.

For comparison, Fredericks showed the jury a still photo taken of Kelly's back after his arrest in 2002, revealing a dark, fingernail-sized mole.

"There is a mark on the man's back in the exact same position," Fredericks said, referring to the tape.

Kelly and his attorneys looked grim and dejected during the expert's testimony, but prosecutors looked pleased, appearing to smile as they sat at their courtroom table.  Watch how guilt or innocence could come down to a mole »

Defense attorney Ed Genson grilled Fredericks in cross-examination, suggesting that the spot on the man's back in the video wasn't in the same place as the mole on Kelly's lower back.

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At another point, Genson also said that a spot in the video faded in and out of view and could have been a technical imperfection on the tape.

Kelly, 41, is charged with child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a girl who prosecutors say was as young as 13. He has pleaded not guilty and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

In testimony earlier in the day, an FBI forensic expert testified that the male and female in a sex tape at the heart of the case weren't computer-generated or altered.

In more than an hour of highly technical analysis, George Skaluba said the video appears to depict "real people in a real environment."

The defense maintains that Kelly is not the man in the video and has repeatedly suggested that his likeness could have been computer-generated onto the 27-minute tape. The alleged victim, now 23, also has denied that she is on the video.

Skaluba also said that even if someone wanted to create digital images, it would be costly and could take years.

"It would be very, very time consuming and very hard to do," Skaluba said.

Under cross-examination, Skaluba conceded that he wasn't in a position to say whether the male on the tape was actually Kelly or a lookalike.


The tape obtained by prosecutors is not the original but a copy several times removed from the original, Skaluba said.

Also Thursday, prosecutors said they needed more time to interview a potential defense witness before he can testify. The man told Kelly's attorneys he had information that could impeach the testimony of a prosecution witness.

O . J Simpson escaped now they MUST get R. Kelly.

i think it is a frame up especially since it is coming almost ten years after,
and since the victim is denying it herself then the same people who were at work for Michael Jackson are at work again to bring the man down
The part where Skaluba said "It would be very, very time consuming and very hard to do," is the Crux of the matter, because why now for something done Ten years before
and where is teh "original"

that dude is going to the gallows

he definitely banged a minor and urinated on her

the scum of the earth should be executed!

dee02:

he definitely banged a minor and urinated on her

He did that?? ^{oh mai God}

Ziggy_mama:

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He did that?? ^{oh mai God}

oh yes he did and it was so disgusting

i saw the tape and he was the one in it no doubt

death by firing squad is what i am prayin for!

death by firing squad   u wicked o . . . . am in favor of hangin by d noose  ^{that pervert}