SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT AT R. KELLY SEX TRIAL: Court ends abruptly Wednesday due to surprise defense witness.

R. Kelly's child pornography trial was adjourned earlier than usual Wednesday due to the 11th hour emergence of a defense witness. Defense attorney Sam Adam Sr. said he got a call yesterday morning from a man who claims to have information that will undermine the testimony of the prosecution's star witness. "We never knew about the witness until 9 a.m. this morning," Adam said, according to reports. "The witness called us." Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. His lawyers maintain he is not on the tape, and the alleged victim, now 23, has denied she is on the tape. The prosecution's star witness, according to the Chicago Tribune, is a Georgia woman who is expected to testify that she engaged in a three-way sexual encounter with Kelly and the alleged victim. Sources say that the last-minute defense witness is a man from Atlanta who might be the woman's ex-boyfriend. On Wednesday, defense attorneys said they needed to speak with their new The defense is hoping to discredit the woman who was to be a key part of the case against Kelly – the only prosecution witness claiming to have actually seen sexual Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a high school basketball coach testified that one of his former players is the young female who appears on the tape. Jacques Conway said he recognized his former player, in part, by a distinctive cross worn by the female participant on the graphic 27-minute videotape. He said he had seen his former player wear the necklace. Joel Rhea, an assistant principal at Havlicek Elementary in Berwyn, was formerly a teacher and girls basketball coach at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park. He testified Wednesday that he met the alleged victim in the fall of 1997 when she was a player on an opposing team. The teams would play each other three or four times a season. Rhea said he would also see her at social events because she was best friends with one of his players. Rhea testified that he recognized the girl in the sex tape from her distinctive forehead.Everyone gave her a hard time because she had a big forehead," Rhea said. "We would joke  Late Tuesday, Kelly's former personal assistant Lindsey Perryman, who worked for the crooner and his family off and on from around 2000 to 2007, identified the "I didn't want to think it was them," said Perryman, 41, from the stand. She told jurors she saw the tape for the first time in December 2007, after prosecutors approached her. That first time she wasn't sure it was Kelly and the alleged victim, but she became "110 percent" certain after viewing it again, she said. "The image I saw looked exactly like Mr. Kelly," she said, adding she was "shocked" and "disturbed" by the video. Perryman said she saw the alleged victim numerous times, including when she would come to Kelly's Chicago music studio. She recognized the girl as the one in the video by her cheekbones, as well as by the "distinctive" way she moved her mouth, smiled and talked, she told jurors. SOURCE:EURWEB