Attorneys began closing arguments Monday morning in R. Kelly's federal trial at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago.&B singer walked in before the 10 a.m. start, as Kelly faces more years in prison."The prosecution is gonna trot out those tapes. It's gonna revisit the testimony given by the main witness, and it's gonna say its proved its case against R. Kelly and his co-defendants. R Kelly attorneys will talk about how none of those witnesses are credible.
SEE MORE: R. Kelly trial: Defense for singer, co-defendants rest; prosecution rebuttal to begin next weekKelly was already sentenced to 30 years in prison, after he was convicted in a separate case in New York. This complaint also names Kelly's former manager, Darrell McDavid, and employee, Milton Brown, for allegedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to recover child sex tapes."If convicted here, R. Kelly is looking at decades in jail, and we have to remember he already has been sentenced to decades in jail in the New York conviction, so effectively we're looking at life imprisonment for him," Soffer said.
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