Lawyers for R. Kelly will return to Cook County courtroom and will call on prosecutors to drop sexual assault charges against the R&B star.
Lawyers for R. Kelly will return to Cook County courtroom and will call on prosecutors to drop sexual assault charges against the R&B star.For the first time since he was convicted on child pornography charges in federal court, lawyers for R.
"Moving forward with these cases would be a waste of time, a waste of the state's resources, a waste of taxpayers' money," Greenberg said.Greenberg said the state-level cases carry lighter potential prison sentences than the federal counts for which Kelly already has been convicted. For any non-celebrity defendant, the Cook County cases would have been dropped after Kelly was indicted federally, Greenberg said.
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