The Supreme Court docket declined to listen to an attraction Monday from the singer R. Kelly, who’s now serving 20 years in jail after being convicted of kid intercourse convictions in Chicago.
The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was discovered responsible in 2022 of three prices of manufacturing little one sexual abuse photographs and three prices of enticement of minors for intercourse.
His attorneys argued {that a} shorter statute of limitations on little one intercourse crime prosecutions ought to have utilized to offenses relationship again to the Nineties. Present legislation permits prices whereas an accuser continues to be alive.
The justices didn’t element their reasoning in declining to listen to the case, as is typical. And none publicly dissented. Decrease courts beforehand rejected his arguments.
Federal prosecutors have mentioned the video confirmed Kelly abusing a lady. The accuser recognized solely as Jane testified that she was 14 when the video was taken.
Kelly has additionally appealed a separate 30-year sentence for federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking convictions in New York.
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