R. Kelly has appealed his September 2021 conviction for racketeering and intercourse trafficking, TMZ reviews and paperwork considered by Pitchfork verify. Within the attraction his attorneys declare that 4 jurors have since admitted to having determined his guilt earlier than the official verdict, and that no less than two of them watched the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. Additionally they declare that a few of the minor women Kelly was accused of abusing have been 18 years previous when their sexual relationships began, and that proof associated to earlier relationships and testimony from former workers shouldn’t have been admissible. Kelly is in search of a reversal of his conviction or a brand new trial.
Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail final June after his September 2021 in federal court docket in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier this yr, Kelly’s sexual abuse indictments in Illinois have been dropped, with Illinois State’s Lawyer Kim Foxx citing the “intensive sentences” handed down within the Kelly’s federal case in New York. He was additionally sentenced to twenty years in jail in a separate federal youngster pornography case; he’s set to serve most of that point concurrent to his 30-year sentence for intercourse trafficking in New York.
When reached by Pitchfork, a spokesperson for the U.S. legal professional’s workplace for the Japanese District of New York provided no remark in regards to the attraction. Pitchfork has additionally reached out to R. Kelly’s attorneys, Jennifer Bonjean and Ashley B. Cohen, for remark.
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