Defense attorneys for R. Kelly creatively found a way to bring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name into the singer's sex trafficking case. The R&B artist's defense attorney Deveraux Cannick made a shocking comparison during her closing arguments, telling jurors that the singer deserves to be acquitted while drawing comparison between him and the civil rights leader. According to TMZ, Cannick called on King at one point in the Brooklyn courtroom, drawing inspiration from his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. "Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press," she said in the room. The prosecutor compared Kelly's fight to prove his innocence to that of King's movement for civil rights. Kelly is charged with racketeering, but there are 14 key crimes that are associated with the overall charge, including sex trafficking, kidnapping and forced labor, CNN reports . If convicted, he faces 10 years to...
