R. Kelly’s Sex Abuse Conviction And 20-Year Sentence In Chicago’s Federal Court Upheld

R. Kelly's was sentenced to 20 years in prison in his child porn case out of Chicago, and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just affirmed that sentence this after Kelly tried having it tossed, citing the statute of limitations had passed as his defense the court called Kelly's 30-year sentence from his New York case the "elephant in the room" and said the Chicago case sentence was set with that in mind the sentence also makes sense in light of the "horrible, horrific" nature of Kelly's crimes for which Kelly was convicted in 2021. Kelly argued the highly influential "Surviving R. Kelly" Lifetime docuseries influenced the trial before it even got off the ground and he was unfairly painted to be guilty. 

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