Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly 's challenge of 20-year sentence

FILE - R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case May 8, 2019, in Chicago . A federal appeals court on Friday, April 26, 2024, upheld R&B singer R. Kelly ’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in his Chicago case.

In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois’ former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive. State prosecutors have said the video showed Kelly abusing a girl. The accuser identified only as Jane testified for the first time that she was 14 when the video was taken.The appeals court also rejected Kelly’s argument that he should not have been prosecuted since the allegations occurred while Illinois law required prosecution of child sex crime charges within ten years.

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