In 2023, R. Kelly formally appealed his conviction on federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking costs. On Wednesday (February 12), america Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction and its corresponding 30-year jail sentence. In a press release to The Related 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 choice 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 listen to an attraction of his 20-year sentence in that case.