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Defense witnesses slated to take the stand in R. Kelly federal trial as singer says he won’t testify

R&B star R. Kelly, center, arrives with manager Derrel McDavid, left, at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building for his child pornography trial Tuesday, May 20, 2008, in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Attorneys for R. Kelly and his co-defendants will have the chance to present witnesses Thursday after federal prosecutors rested their case-in-chief against the disgraced singer earlier this week.

But first, U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber denied the defendants’ requests to acquit them of all charges before the jury even gets the case.

The motions for judgment of acquittal, filed at the conclusion of

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