R KELLY IS SO SCREWED

After just two days and 12 witnesses, the defense rested yesterday in the R. Kelly child pornography case.  Neither Kelly nor the woman who is said to have been 13 when she had sex with Kelly ever testified.  This is not to say the trial is over, as today the prosecution will bring back a video expert to contradict claims by the defense about a mole on Kellys back.  The Chicago Sun Times says…

Prosecutors said Monday they planned to recall to the witness stand Grant Fredericks, who previously testified that the videotape showed a dark spot on the lower back of the man in the video. The spot "corresponds" with a mole on Kelly's back, Fredericks told jurors.Last week, Kelly's team presented its own video expert, Charles Palm, who showed a copy of the tape in which dark spots seemed to appear and then disappear from the man's back. He dismissed the spots as "video noise."

I think it's safe to say the defense is fucked when their big plan is based around a mole that even they admit you can see most of the time.  It seems unlikely that "video noise" would make a black spot appear exactly where Kelly has a mole.  Couldn’t it just as easily be "video noise" that made the mole not visible some of the time.   At this point the defense might as well just throw a bunch of money in the air and then run away while everyone scrambles to catch it.