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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear R. Kelly Appeal On Child Sex Crimes Convictions

R. Kelly's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over his 2022 sex crimes convictions was refused by the justices, leaving the guilty verdict in place.

The other — a September 2021 guilty verdict on racketeering charges brought by prosecutors in New York that resulted in a 30-year prison sentence — is still pending on appeal before a lower appellate court. In the current case, a different team of federal prosecutors from Chicago accused Kelly of violating child pornography laws, enticing minors for sex and obstructing justice by upending a 2008 criminal trial. She said that an updated federal law extending the time limit, passed in 2003, could not be applied retroactively to Kelly’s alleged crimes, which occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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