After six weeks of harrowing testimony in R. Kelly’s New York sex crimes trial, the jury is considering a raft of evidence intended to support a racketeering charge — a unusual application of a law commonly viewed as a tool to nab mob bosses.
G. Robert Blakey, now a professor emeritus at Notre Dame Law School who helped draft the RICO statute, said the law wasn’t designed exclusively for mob cases, but rather that the mafia offered a “case study of the issue.” For a racketeering conviction, prosecutors must prove to the jury that Kelly committed at least two of 14 “predicate acts” — the crimes elemental to the wider pattern of illegal wrongdoing.
Experts say RICO has the benefit of flexibility to present evidence that would otherwise be too old to charge.
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