New York: A US choose on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year jail time period for little one 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 trafficking expenses.
The choose in Chicago — Kelly´s hometown, the place he was as soon as seen as a supply of pleasure — dominated that a lot 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 participating 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 little one pornography and three of enticement of a minor.
