Jennifer Bonjean—the disgraced singer’s attorney—has requested the United States Supreme Court to throw out his federal sex crime convictions, which include possession of child pornography and inducing minors to have sex.
R. Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was sentenced in Chicago to 20 years in prison in February 2023 on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity. The year prior, in June 2022, the 57-year-old was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking charges based out of New York. However, 19 years of the two sentences will be served concurrently, and he is expected to be released in 2045.
Prior to 2003, the statute of limitations barred prosecutions after the victim’s 25th birthday. But the law was amended that year to allow prosecutions through the life of the victim.
Lawyer Jennifer Bonjean was added to Weinstein’s legal team along with Michael Freedman months after the movie mogul was convicted of rape
Bonjean famously represented comedian Bill Cosby and sex offender R. Kelly pic.twitter.com/ZdJyZWeQzW— News News News (@NewsNew97351204) May 2, 2023
In 2020, Kelly was first accused of possessing child pornography and engaging in sexual acts with underage girls dating back to the mid to late-1990s. The victims hadn’t turned 25 by then, but they had by the time Kelly was charged.
Prosecutors disputed her argument, citing the PROTECT Act—a 2003 law that declared the statute of limitations is indefinite for sex crimes against children.
In Bonjean’s petition, she argued that although Kelly is serving time for his crimes from the 1990s, the statute of limitations doesn’t apply to him because the PROTECT Act was passed in the early 2000s. She wrote that Congress did not explicitly include a clause that this law would also apply to crimes that occurred before 2003.
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Jennifer Bonjean—the disgraced singer’s attorney—has requested the United States Supreme Court to throw out his federal sex crime convictions, which include possession of child pornography and inducing minors to have sex.
R. Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was sentenced in Chicago to 20 years in prison in February 2023 on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity. The year prior, in June 2022, the 57-year-old was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking charges based out of New York. However, 19 years of the two sentences will be served concurrently, and he is expected to be released in 2045.
Prior to 2003, the statute of limitations barred prosecutions after the victim’s 25th birthday. But the law was amended that year to allow prosecutions through the life of the victim.
Lawyer Jennifer Bonjean was added to Weinstein’s legal team along with Michael Freedman months after the movie mogul was convicted of rape
Bonjean famously represented comedian Bill Cosby and sex offender R. Kelly pic.twitter.com/ZdJyZWeQzW— News News News (@NewsNew97351204) May 2, 2023
In 2020, Kelly was first accused of possessing child pornography and engaging in sexual acts with underage girls dating back to the mid to late-1990s. The victims hadn’t turned 25 by then, but they had by the time Kelly was charged.
Prosecutors disputed her argument, citing the PROTECT Act—a 2003 law that declared the statute of limitations is indefinite for sex crimes against children.
In Bonjean’s petition, she argued that although Kelly is serving time for his crimes from the 1990s, the statute of limitations doesn’t apply to him because the PROTECT Act was passed in the early 2000s. She wrote that Congress did not explicitly include a clause that this law would also apply to crimes that occurred before 2003.
