Update
Judge Vincent Gaughan ruled that Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim DeRogatis will not have to testify in the R. Kelly trial because of the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from self-incrimination, after DeRogatis showed up in court this morning to be questioned by the judge. Sun-Times attorney Damon Dunn said that an overly zealous prosecutor could potentially take any testimony in which DeRogatis admits to watching or possessing the tape and use it as the grounds for a child pornography case, and that DeRogatis is still protected under the First Amendment, despite the court’s earlier ruling. The matter of who slipped the tape to DeRogatis in the first place still remains a mystery. [The Kelly Chronicles]
