In 2023, R. Kelly formally appealed his conviction on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. On Wednesday (February 12), america Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction and its corresponding 30-year prison sentence. In a press release to The Associated Press, R. Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, known as the ruling “unprecedented” and stated that she believes the Supreme Court docket of america will agree to listen to an additional attraction.
This week’s resolution has to do with Kelly’s New York federal case, however the disgraced R&B singer was additionally convicted, in a Chicago federal courtroom, of manufacturing youngster pornography and attractive ladies for intercourse. The Supreme Court docket declined to hear an appeal of his 20-year sentence in that case.
