Cook County prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to decide on whether to prosecute RAt a brief hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court building, Assistant State's Attorney Tene McCoy Cummings told Judge Lawrence Flood that the prosecution still is assembling transcripts from Kelly's trials in federal court in New York and Chicago, where the singer has already been convicted on charges related to having sex with underage girls.
"I am eager to see where the state stands on this and to push forward if that's where we're going," said Kelly's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean. Bonjean, who represented Kelly in his federal trial in Chicago and is handling his post-trial motions in New York, offered to provide transcripts to the prosecution.The 55-year-old singer was not present for the brief hearing Monday. He's serving a 30-year prison sentence on racketeering charges from his federal trial in New York.
One alleged victim, identified in Cook County records by the initials "R.L." appears to have been the star witness at Kelly's Chicago federal trial. Testifying under the pseudonym "Jane," the woman said Kelly began molesting her when she was just 14 and that the singer persuaded her and her parents not to cooperate with investigators ahead of Kelly's 2008 Cook County trial for making sex tapes with her when she was a minor.
It's all about the money now for r.kelley and the govt they have him where.they want him and doubt he goes anywhere else with his previous conviction
Who cares