State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is expected to provide an update on the status of the cases at a news conference at 3:30 p.m. at the Cook County Administration Building, the same place where she announced the charges against Kelly nearly four years ago.
Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the cases were going to be dropped, particularly after a series of status hearings before Associate Judge Lawrence Flood. came and went with no progress toward trial.
But the once-explosive indictments announced by Foxx soon took a back seat to a pair of federal investigations by U.S. Attorney’s offices in New York and Chicago that led to separate indictments announced in July 2019. The federal convictions have forced Cook County prosecutors into a tough calculation. If they bring him to trial and win, it would have little concrete effect on Kelly, who is expected to spend decades in federal custody no matter what they do. If they lost, it would prove highly embarrassing for the office that announced charges earliest and with great gusto.
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