R. Kelly Again in Chicago For Intercourse Trial – Billboard

R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago forward of his trial on youngster pornography and obstruction-of-justice prices, simply two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in jail for racketeering and intercourse trafficking.

The 55-year-old Kelly was transferred Tuesday from the federal jail in Brooklyn to the Metropolitan Correctional Heart, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was additionally held on the Chicago lockup after he was indicted on federal prices in Chicago and New York in 2019.

Jury choice for his federal trial in Chicago is about to start Aug. 15.

Kelly was convicted in 2021 in New York on prices that he sexually abused younger followers, together with youngsters, in a scientific scheme that prosecutors alleged went on for many years. He was sentenced in June.

Kelly has denied any wrongdoing.

Kelly was indicted in 2002 in Illinois state courtroom on 21 counts of kid pornography, however was acquitted six years later by a jury.

Federal prosecutors allege Kelly and two co-defendants fastened that state trial, saying Kelly organized for a woman and her mother and father to journey abroad to forestall them from speaking with police previous to his 2002 indictment and later instructed them to deceive a grand jury in regards to the case.