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R. Kelly’s Lawyer Appeals Sex Crime Convictions to U.S. Supreme Court

The attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, made a statute of limitations argument in an attempt to overturn his convictions.

But on Thursday, July 25, his attorney claimed in a petition that Kelly’s alleged acts related to his conduct in the 1990s and early 2000s, and that the charges from last year are purportedly barred by the statute of limitations. In Bonjean’s petition, she argued that although Kelly is serving time for his crimes from the 1990s, the statute of limitations doesn’t apply to him because the PROTECT Act was passed in the early 2000s. The first appeal argued that Kelly was unfairly charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for leading a group of people who recruited women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity and create child pornography, per the Associated Press.

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