R Kelly’s defense team has closed their case in his child pornography trial earlier this week after just two days and calling only twelve witnesses. The buzz going around is that their low-ball strategy of failing to call the alleged video victim as a witness could backfire and send the R&B singer in jail for a long time. An expert spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times saying that leaving the girl out might cause jurors “to speculate she had some inducement not to testify.” The prosecution returned the day after to hammer the singer about his mole. Since there were some photos of R Kelly having the mole, I say this case is pretty much closed and that he’s doomed.

The witness who was set to testify that she had a threesome with R Kelly and the underage victim seen on the sex tape finally went to the stand on Monday. Lisa Van Allen revealed that she did the threesome with the singer and the underage girl on 3 different occasions and identified the girl, as well as Kelly, on the videotape. She also claimed that Kelly’s business manager paid her and another man $20,000 each for the return of two of many sex tapes. To discredit her, the defense revealed that Van Allen did not contact prosecutors until earlier this year after having her boyfriend get into legal trouble. They also got her to confess that she stole a Rolex from Kelly. Just who is on trial here?

Something as small as a black dot on R Kelly’s body may end up saving the singer’s hide from having to spend time in jail. The R&B singer’s lawyers are actually basing pretty much his entire defense on one mole. Kelly’s trial began on Tuesday wherein the defense claimed that the guy in the video, which was screened in court, doesn’t have a mole but Kelly does. The defense also claimed that the woman in the tape was a prostitute. Among other curiosities in the video, the girl calls the man in the video ‘daddy’ and he apparently pays her at the end.

It has been reported yesterday that R. Kelly’s trial on charges of child pornography was postponed with no new date set. Now, the Chicago Sun Times is reporting that a trial has been set for the spring of 2008. It seems that the judge needs to finish with another trial that begins on February leaving the singer’s trial to start some time in the spring.

According to some sources, the new delay is due to lawyers arguing over expert witnesses who prosecutors want to call to the stand. Neither camp is talking about the case however due to a gag order on the case.