R. Kelly Trial: Where Things Stand as Prosecution Rests

conviction on sex trafficking charges.The disgraced singer’s album sales have jumped a whopping 517% since a New York jury handed down their guilty verdict on Sept. 27, according to Rolling Stone.Kelly, 54, was found guilty of sexual exploitation, bribery, racketeering and sex trafficking involving five victims.

R. Kelly has been found guilty of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges by the Eastern District of New York, according to the New York Times.

R. Kelly, 54, will “likely” spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted on eight counts of sex trafficking and one racketeering charge on Sept. 27 during his federal trial in New York. The disgraced R&B singer faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars and a maximum of life imprisonment along with registration as a sex offender. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 4, 2022.

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A decision has been made in the Brooklyn trial of R. Kelly.

a federal trial in New York stemming from those allegations.A timeline of Kelly’s life:— Jan. 8, 1967: Robert Sylvester Kelly born in Chicago as third of four children of schoolteacher Joann Kelly.

Singer R. Kelly has been found guilty on all nine counts in his sex trafficking and racketeering trial in Brooklyn.

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NEW YORK -- A judge began instructing the jury at R. Kelly’s sex trafficking trial on the law Friday after it heard a prosecutor give a fiery rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments, which portrayed him as a victim of false accusations.Kelly “believed the music, the fame and the celebrity meant he could do whatever he wanted,” Assistant U.S.

The prosecution rested its case in the R Kelly trial in New York yesterday, with the defence then calling its first two witnesses, two men who had both worked with the musician over a number of years. Both claimed that they’d never seen any of the sexual or physical abuse previously described during the court case.One of those witnesses was an aspiring rapper and R Kelly fan called Dhanai ‘Da-Ni’ Ramanan, who first met the musician in the mid-2000s.

NEW YORK -- Prosecutors at the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case Monday after calling dozens of witnesses over the past month who detailed the government’s sweeping allegations against the singer in lurid detail.Several women and two men who were in Kelly's celebrity orbit testified about how he grooming them for unwanted sex and psychological tormented them — mostly when they were teenagers — in episodes dating to the 1990s.

The jury in the ongoing R Kelly trial in New York yesterday heard two recordings which, prosecution lawyers say, back up their allegations that the star abused numerous women and girls.Jurors listened to the recordings through headphones, meaning press and members of the public in attendance, and R Kelly himself, did not get to hear what they contained.However, when prosecutors sought permission to play the recordings from the judge earlier this week, they gave some insight into what jurors

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A woman who previously worked as a back-up singer and dancer at R Kelly’s shows testified yesterday that she witnessed the star engaging in a sex act with Aaliyah when his then protege was just thirteen or fourteen. The witness, referred to as Angela, also gave insight into what life was like when touring with the musician as a young woman.As Kelly’s ongoing New York trial continued, Angela discussed an incident that occurred while she was touring with the musician in the early 1990s.

Content warning: This story contains discussion and descriptions of sexual abuse.A former backup performer for R.