From the ArcaMax Publishing, Entertainment News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/entertainmenttoday/s-369240-611121
CHICAGO (UPI) -- A supportive fan of R. Kelly was released Wednesday
after being jailed in Chicago for 34 days on a contempt of court
charge.
Kelly, a Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, was acquitted earlier this
month of child pornography charges.
The Chicago Tribune said Debra Triplett, a 48-year-old grandmother
from Aurora, Ill., spent more than a month behind bars because she
yelled, "Free R. Kelly!" as the jury stepped off a courthouse elevator
during Kelly's trial.
Triplett remained in jail until Wednesday because she was unable to
post the $5,000 cash bail imposed by Cook County Circuit Judge
Vincent Gaughan when he ordered her jailed May 22.
Moments after her release from the Cook County Jail, Triplett told the
newspaper she thinks Kelly should have paid her bail.
"For sure he should have stepped up," Triplett said. "R. Kelly, you
should have stepped up!"
As for the remark that landed her in jail, Triplett said, "I was just
being a fan. I didn't know I was going to be locked up."
She added that she was surprised she wasn't released when Kelly was
acquitted.
"I thought they were going to say, 'Pack it up, Triplett,'" she
recalled. "But they didn't, and the days went on and on."