M Grammy Award-winning R&B singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the artist, born Robert Kelly, on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex. In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive. He also argued that charges involving one accuser should have been tried separately from the charges tied to three other accusers due to video evidence federal prosecutors say showed him abusing a girl. The accuser identified only as Jane testified for the first time that she was 14 when the video was taken. The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Friday s ruling noted that jurors acquitted Kelly on 7 of the 13 counts
M Grammy Award-winning R&B singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the artist, born Robert Kelly, on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex. In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive. He also argued that charges involving one accuser should have been tried separately from the charges tied to three other accusers due to video evidence federal prosecutors say showed him abusing a girl. The accuser identified only as Jane testified for the first time that she was 14 when the video was taken. The Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Friday s ruling noted that jurors acquitted Kelly on 7 of the 13 counts
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The White House said some 132 people die by suicide every day in the United States. The celebrities working with White House have lost loved ones who took their own lives.
The White House said some 132 people die by suicide every day in the United States. The celebrities working with White House have lost loved ones who took their own lives.