R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago is set to kick off in August after a judge on Tuesday denied a request to postpone it by three months.
In a motion filed Monday, Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, asked for the delay based on a number of factors, including the complexity of the charges, the enormous amount of evidence that has been turned over, and her relatively late entry into the hot-button case.
Any further postponement would have also be complicated by continuing COVID-19 protocols at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, as well as the issue of Kelly’s two co-defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown, who have previously said they were ready for trial.After Leinenweber made his ruling, many of the hundreds of people listening on the court’s call-in line erupted in shouts and curses. “Oh my god are you serious,” one women said.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly refused a request by Bonjean to delay Kelly’s sentencing until after his trial in Chicago. Kelly is currently scheduled to be sentenced in New York on June 15.Kelly, who has been in custody since his arrest in downtown Chicago in July 2019, is currently being held without bond at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
Bonjean, meanwhile, has asked Donnelly to throw out the New York conviction on myriad legal grounds, including allegations prosecutors misused the RICO statute and that Kelly’s ineffective trial lawyers failed to keep jurors off the panel who had been tainted by what they’d seen or read about Kelly’s sexual exploits.
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