R. Kelly faces a trial in Chicago. His lawyer, who helped free Bill Cosby, is fighting charges, saying the statute of limitations on them expired.
CHICAGO -- R&B singer R. Kelly's new defense attorney has turned her sights on the federal charges still pending against him in Chicago, arguing that prosecutors filed them about a decade too late.
Jennifer Bonjean, the attorney with Chicago roots who helped free actor Bill Cosby, filed a motion Monday seeking to dismiss several of the charges pending against Kelly. The singer is charged in Chicago's federal court with child pornography and obstruction of justice.R. Kelly COVID: Chicago singer's lawyers seek post-trial delay after former R&B star gets COVID-19
Kelly is already facing a potential life sentence in federal prison after a jury in Brooklyn convicted him of racketeering. His sentencing there is set for June 15. Bonjean had hoped to delay Kelly's Brooklyn sentencing until after his Chicago trial, but the Brooklyn judge refused.
She argued that the statute of limitations expired on all of those counts around 2009, a decade before Kelly's federal indictment in Chicago."In its recently discovered enthusiasm to prosecute Mr. Kelly, the government reaches back a quarter century to bring charges of sexual abuse and receiving child pornography that have been long time-barred," Bonjean wrote.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber, who presides over the case, has previously denied a motion to dismiss an additional obstruction of justice charge also pending against Kelly.
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