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Supreme Court Declines R. Kelly's Appeal for Federal Sex Crime Convictions: Details Inside
Supreme Court denies R. Kelly's appeal regarding federal sex crime convictions. Kelly serving prison time for sex trafficking and child pornography charges. Court declines to address retroactive prosecution claim.
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The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from R. Kelly, who is currently serving a prison sentence for federal sex crime convictions.
Robert Sylvester Kelly was already serving a 30-year sentence for sex trafficking, stemming from a 2021 New York case, when he was convicted of child pornography in Chicago for which he was sentenced to 20 years in 2023.
Kelly told the Supreme Court that he was wrongly retroactively prosecuted under a federal law that passed in 2003 and made the statute of limitations indefinite for sex crimes with minors. Federal prosecutors declined to respond to his appeal.
The high court issued a lengthy order list Monday, disposing of hundreds of cases on the same day the justices heard their first oral arguments of the new term. (CNN)
