R. Kelly is illiterate

[left-of-center2012]

R. Kelly judgment withdrawn after lawyers say he can't read

R. Kelly spent much of Wednesday in court, with his lawyer explaining to one judge that the singer didn’t respond to a lawsuit brought by one of his sexual abuse accusers because he is illiterate ...

At the first hearing, Judge Moira Johnson vacated a default judgment she made against Kelly after the singer failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by one of the four women he’s charged with sexually abusing.
Johnson reinstated the lawsuit after one of Kelly’s attorneys explained that the singer was in jail when he was served with the lawsuit documents and that Kelly didn’t respond because he can’t read.

Kelly’s bookings for performances began drying up following the airing of a television documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.” That was weeks before his February arrest on charges accusing him of sexually abusing a woman and three girls over roughly a 10-year period starting in the late 1990s. But on Tuesday, one his attorneys told reporters that he was lining up performances for the Grammy award-winning R&B singer in Illinois and outside the state, and that he anticipated the judge approving requests to travel to make those appearances.

Kelly has pleaded not guilty to the sexual abuse charges and denied any wrongdoing.

https://apnews.com/1adb9156f8b84f2c8151270c5d9532c9

[marble falls]

1. He doesn't need to read anyting on a legal document, that's why he has lawyers. Lots of them.

[Eugene]

2. ...his LAWYER explaining ... with a straight face?

Yet R. Kelly knows now to have the lawyers handle the case. Suuuuure.