Kelly, 55, is due to appear in federal court in Brooklyn after pleading guilty in September to nine counts, including blackmail and breach of the Mann Act, which bans the transportation of women and girls to states for “immoral purposes.” The audition is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and several women, including some who testified at Kelly’s trial last year, are expected to speak in court. Prosecutors have demanded that Judge Ann Donnelly be sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for his “I Believe I Can Fly” singer, whose full name is Robert Kelly – saying in a sentencing note that Kelly relied on reputation and money. to “and convey and conceal his crimes.” R. Kelly is due to stand trial in Brooklyn federal court on sexual abuse charges. Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File “He continued his crimes and avoided punishment for them for almost 30 years and now he must be held accountable,” the Office of the Attorney General for the Eastern District of New York said in a 31-page indictment. Prosecutors tried to portray Kelly during the trial as a predator with a pattern of abuse for decades that showed no remorse for what she had done. Prosecutors ask judge to sentence Kelly to more than 25 years in prison.REUTERS / Jane Rosenberg Indeed, the accused’s decades of crime seem to have been fueled by narcissism and the belief that his musical talent relieved him of any need to affirm his behavior – no matter how predatory, harmful, humiliating or abusive to others – in the structures of the law “, the note stated. Jennifer Bonjean, a lawyer who has also represented the disgraced actor and comedian Bill Cosby, has asked to be sentenced to less than 14 years. The defense team tried to present the accusers who testified as contemptuous fans and said that Kelly should not have more time to abuse a victim referred to in court as “Jane”, whose parents pressed for his help in music. of her career. “The record shows that Jane’s parents asked Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” Kelly’s lawyers said in a court statement. There were about 45 witnesses called during the trial, with tearful testimony from victim Jerhonda Pace, who described a confrontation with an angry Kelly, who said he hit her and forced her to have oral sex. A witness testified that he entered Kelly who had oral sex with the singer Aaliyah when he was only 13 or 14 years old. Witnesses at Kelly’s trial described details of his marriage to singer Aaliyah when he was just 15 years old. LIFETIME Witnesses described Kelly’s plan to illegally marry Aaliyah in 1994, when she was just 15 and he was 27. Kelly allegedly feared the girl was pregnant and married her with the idea that it would help him avoid sexual harassment allegations. contact with a minor, and prohibit her from testifying against him. A former member of Kelly’s entourage testified that he bribed an official to get Aaliyah a fake idea that he was 18 years old, so that the marriage could proceed. Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001 at the age of 22. Kelly also faces charges in Minnesota and federal pornography and obstruction charges in Illinois. The Grammy winner did not testify in his own defense during his trial in New York, but erupted in hysteria during a 2019 interview on CBS News with Gayle King and denied any wrongdoing. The interview came in the wake of the “Surviving R. Kelly” series, which recorded a series of accusations against him. He may choose to make a statement at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. With Post cables
