- R Kelly was sentenced to twenty years in jail for youngster pornography and different expenses.
- The 56-year-old is already serving a 30-year sentence for racketeering and intercourse trafficking expenses.
- The brand new sentence shall be served concurrently with the earlier one.
A US decide on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year jail time period for youngster pornography and different expenses – however he’ll serve most of it concurrently with a earlier sentence.
Kelly, 56, is already serving a 30-year sentence he obtained after a Brooklyn jury in a separate federal trial convicted him on racketeering and intercourse trafficking expenses.
The decide in Chicago – Kelly’s hometown, the place he was as soon as seen as a supply of delight – dominated that many of the new sentence can be served concurrently with the earlier one, with all however one yr taken on the identical time.
That Kelly will spend a most of 31 years in jail is a win for the protection, which urged in its sentencing memorandum that “a concurrent sentence is what equity calls for,” accusing the prosecution of partaking in a “quest to make sure that Kelly by no means sees the sunshine of day.”
His lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, is interesting each of Kelly’s federal convictions.
The artist born Robert Sylvester Kelly was convicted in September 2022 on six of 13 counts alleged within the Chicago trial: three counts of manufacturing youngster pornography and three of enticement of a minor.
The singer recognized for hits together with I Imagine I Can Fly was acquitted by a federal jury of the seven different counts, together with expenses that he obstructed justice in a earlier trial.
Kelly and two ex-associates had been accused of rigging the singer’s 2008 youngster pornography proceedings by which a jury delivered a verdict of not responsible.
The federal conviction in Chicago got here one yr after Kelly was convicted in New York of systematically recruiting youngsters and girls for intercourse
That verdict was extensively seen as a milestone for the #MeToo motion: it was the primary main intercourse abuse trial the place the vast majority of the accusers had been Black ladies.
It was additionally the primary time Kelly confronted legal penalties for the abuse he was rumored for many years to have inflicted on ladies and youngsters.
