R.Kelly: Making a mountain out of a mole

Was it a mole or an "artifact"? That's the question that was batted around in court yesterday as the case turned its focus to a blemish on the back of the individual in the alleged R. Kelly sex tape. Kelly has "a caterpillar-shaped mark" along his spine. While the back of the man alleged to be Kelly is only visible on the tape for less than one second, both the prosecution and the defense have now presented expert witnesses to back their own case. The prosecution witness showed a freeze frame of the video which seemed to show a blemish along the man's spine. The defense's expert, forensic video analyst Charles Palm, broke the half-second of footage into separate frames (sounds exciting!) and only in two of those frames is the blemish visible before disappearing.

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