Cook County prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to decide on whether to prosecute R&B star R. Kelly on sexual abuse charges involving four Chicago-area women.
At 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.
Cummings asked for another 30 days to review the records. Flood set the next hearing in the case for Dec. 13. “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.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.The 55-year-old singer was not present for the brief hearing Monday.
State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in January 2019 made a public request for victims to come forward after the “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary series aired that month and brought fresh attention to decades-old allegations against the singer.
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