What's next for jailed Grammy winner and accused sexual predator R. Kelly?
Published 7:48 AM EDT Aug 6, 2019
Meanwhile, prosecutors in Illinois and New York are at the ready. The 52-year-old singer is accused of multiple sex crimes, including sexual abuse of underage girls, sex-trafficking, racketeering, production and possession of child pornography, obstruction of justice, and transportation of women and girls across state lines for the purposes of illegal sexual activity.He's pleaded not guilty to all the charges filed up until Monday.
He is locked up pending trial because he's been denied bail twice in the two federal cases, in New York and Illinois. Prosecutors argued that Kelly should be kept in jail because he's a flight risk and a potential"danger" to the community, in part because one of the accusers in the New York case claims he gave her a sexually transmitted disease.
R. Kelly's legal team, including Douglas Anton, center, and Steve Greenberg, far right, after a hearing in Kelly's racketeering and sex trafficking case, outside federal court in Brooklyn on Aug. 2, 2019 in New York.It's possible but still unclear, says Lara Yeretsian, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who's been following the case. She thinks the New York case might be up first.
"That said, I do think that some witnesses will overlap and this probably explains why the indictments came out so close to one another," Bedi says."These prosecutors are on the same page and while they might be in different districts, the end goal is the same – to put Kelly away.""There are a lot of dynamics here," says Weinstein."The defense want the bestcase to go first; which of the three is most likely to move quickly, for instance.
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