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Sep 27, 2021 · Reuters/Jane Rosenberg. A jury on Monday found R. Kelly guilty on all counts in his sex crimes trial in New York. Kelly was accused of running a criminal enterprise that transported and coerced...
- Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
- R. Kelly Sentencing Hearing
- R. Kelly Found Guilty
- Jury Deliberates
- Judge Instructs Jurors on Law
- Prosecution Asks Jurors to Make R. Kelly 'Pay' For His Alleged Sex Crimes
- Kelly Didn't Take The Stand
- Kelly's Attorneys Make Their Case
- Jury Hears Audio and Video Recordings of Kelly
- Witness Testifies About What She Saw Kelly Do to Aaliyah
- Other Witnesses Allege Uncharged Crimes
Kelly, 55, was present in Brooklyn's federal court for the sentencing hearing Wednesday. Prosecutors sought a minimum 25-year term after submitting a memo earlier in June, while the defense attorneys said a sentence of 10 years or less is all he deserves. Kelly’s lawyers argued in court papers he should get a break in part because he “experienced a...
The jury found Kelly guilty on just the second day of deliberations. Kelly remained motionless, eyes downcast as the verdict was read. Kelly was also convicted of criminal counts accusing him of violating the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to take anyone across state lines “for any immoral purpose.” Kelly faced multiple sex-trafficking and racket...
A couple hours into the deliberations on Friday, the jurors sent the judge a note asking to review a transcript of testimony and evidence regarding a woman who claimed Kelly sexually assaulted her in 2003 when she was a 21-year-old radio station intern. She testified she was kept locked up in a recording studio for days and drugged before the assau...
Donnelly began issuing her final instructions to the jury, under the expectation the jurors would get the case later. Earlier, they heard a fiery rebuttal to the defense’s closing arguments, which portrayed Kelly as a victim of false accusations. Kelly “believed the music, the fame and the celebrity meant he could do whatever he wanted,” Assistant ...
"It is now time to hold the defendant responsible for the pain he inflicted," Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes told jurors on Sept. 23 in her closing arguments in federal court in Brooklyn. "It is now time for the defendant, Robert Kelly, to pay for his crimes. Convict him." On Sept. 22 she told the court that the government had delivered o...
On Sept. 22, R. Kelly confirmed to the judge he would not take the stand in his trial. The day prior, Cannick, one of R. Kelly's defense attorneys, told the judge without the jury present that his client was unlikely to take the stand. Cannick made the comment as the defense wrapped up its case. The singer and his team had not given the impression ...
The defense began its case by starting to call Kelly loyalists to the witness stand in an effort to cast doubt on some of the accusers’ accounts. Larry Hood, a childhood friend who worked security for Kelly as an off-duty Chicago police officer in the early 2000s, claimed he never witnessed Kelly misbehaving with underage girls. A defense attorney ...
On Day 16 of the trial, prosecutors filed a motion seeking to have the jury hear excerpts of two tapes, including one in which an enraged Kelly can be heard accusing an unidentified woman of lying to him before beginning to assault her, according to the court filing. "If you lie to me, I'm going to (expletive) you up," Kelly says. Another recording...
On Day 15, another witness, testifying as "Angela," said she saw Kelly in a "sexual situation" with the late R&B singer Aaliyah around 1993, when Aaliyah was only 13 or 14. The witness, a former backup performer for Kelly whose testimony matches the description of Jane Doe No. 7 in prosecutors' filings, described opening a door on Kelly's tour bus ...
Though there are six complaining witnesses in the trial, the prosecution has also called witnesses alleging uncharged crimes in order to establish a pattern of alleged criminal behavior by Kelly. These witnesses have included a male ("Louis"), who said Kelly performed oral sex on him in 2007when he was a 17-year-old high school student, and a woman...
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Aug 18, 2021 · The R&B singer R. Kelly was a “predator” who used his celebrity status to lure victims to be abused, a prosecutor said in opening statements of his federal trial in New York Wednesday, calling...
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Sep 27, 2021 · Prosecutors had accused Kelly of running a criminal enterprise that recruited girls, boys, and women for sex. The 54-year-old singer now faces a sentence of between 10 years to life in...
Sep 28, 2021 · 28 September 2021. Getty Images. Kelly seen entering court in June 2019. Singer R. Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and...
Sep 27, 2021 · During the trial, prosecutors detailed how his managers, security guards and other entourage members worked to assist him in his criminal enterprise. The court also heard how Kelly had illegally...
Aug 11, 2021 · Prosecutors allege Kelly was the leader of a criminal enterprise made up of associates who promoted Kelly’s music and his brand “to recruit women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity”...
