R. Kelly's assault and sex trafficking conviction, along with a 30-year prison sentence, was upheld by the federal court of appeals on Wednesday, with the singer having sex with girls and young women for over a quarter of a century. He concluded that he exploited fame.
Manhattan's Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday after hearing the debate last March.
The Grammy-winning multi-platin sale R&B songwriter was convicted in Brooklyn federal court in 2021 on multiple charges including assault and sex trafficking.
Attorney Jennifer Bonjang, representing R. Kelly, said in a statement that he believes the Supreme Court will agree to hear the appeal. She called the Second Circuit “unprecedented” and said that it would give prosecutors endless discretion to apply the racket law to “situation that is absurd to circumstances” due to the intent of the law.
Last year, the High Court refused to hear the appeal of a 20-year prison sentence in 2022 when he was convicted of a child sex charge that included the charge of creating images of child sex abuse in Chicago.
The Second Circuit rejected Kelly's argument that there was insufficient evidence from the trial and that the constitutionality of some state laws used against him was questionable. .
“Enabling its signs of managers, assistants and other staff for over 25 years, Kelly misused his fame to grasp girls and young women,” the appeals court said. He said he helped to refer him to minors. girl.
“The evidence at the trial showed that he isolated them from friends and family, controlled almost every aspect of their lives, and abused them verbally, physically and sexually,” the three of them said. said the judge panel.
The appeals court said that it was “not arbitrary or irrational that some accusers were allowed to testify in the trial that Kelly gave herpes without disclosing that he had an STD.” “He said. Kelly was allowed to testify that he began to abuse them.
“None of the testimony is as inflammatory as the conduct charged,” the appeals court said.
The Second Circuit also said it was not unfair that a judge could not see the graphic video to the ju judge.
The Court of Appeals said “Kelley was properly acknowledged to show the means and methods of the corporation, including the level of control and control over his victims,” the Court of Appeals said.
Bonjean is R. In her statement on behalf of Kelly, one Second Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan agreed that he described him as a “good opinion” for the majority, but some had a compensation award. I cited partial opposition against the award given to the compensation award. One of the victims of the lifetime supply of the herpes drug suppression regime. The award was based on the cost of branded drugs if generic drugs were available.
“This was not a recovery. It was an effort by the government to unfairly enrich the witnesses of the government for their testimony,” Bongjan said.
Born in Robert Sylvester Kelly, Kelly is known for his work on the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multipart story of sexual betrayal and plot. .
Kelly sold millions of albums and maintained demand even after allegations of abuse of young girls began to circulate publicly in the 1990s.
He was acquitted in Chicago in 2008 on image charges of child sexual abuse, but in his second trial in Chicago in 2022 he produced child sexual abuse and sexual girl image. He was found guilty on the charges.
The widespread anger over Kelly's sexual misconduct did not appear until #MeToo calculated it.
