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Kelly complains of girlfriends’ lack of joint access
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyers want the judge in the singer’s New York federal case to reconsider and grant him bond, saying the hardships of being jailed include being able to see just one of two previous live-in girlfriends at a time.
The Chicago Tribune reports the request was filed Monday in New York, where Kelly is charged in a racketeering scheme to sexually abuse girls.
Kelly is detained in Chicago, where he faces similar charges. Even if the New York judge grants bond, Kelly must get the Chicago judge to agree to bond before he could be released.
Monday’s motion complained that only one person unrelated to Kelly can visit him at a time over 90 days, so just one of the two young women who lived with him before he was jailed can visit during that period.
Mathew Knowles revealed he has been diagnosis with breast cancer
Mathew Knowles, father of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, is battling breast cancer. He revealed his diagnosis in a Good Morning America interview which aired on the ABC morning show, Wednesday, October 2.
The Latest: Ex-addict says Dallas cop helped her get sober
DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of murder in the shooting death of her neighbor inside his apartment (all times local):
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A woman who met Amber Guyger when the Dallas police officer busted a drug house says Guyger helped her turn around her life.
LaWanda Clark told jurors Wednesday during Guyger’s murder trial that she struggled with a crack cocaine addiction and that Guyger wrote her a ticket on the day of the drug bust. She says Guyger told her that the ticket could be the impetus to turn her life around.
While Clark was speaking, attorneys showed jurors a photo of Guyger attending Clark’s graduation from a community drug treatment program.
Clark said Guyger treated her as a person, not as “an addict,” and said she is now sober.
Guyger faces up to life in prison for the September 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean. She says she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, which was one floor below.
