Kelly, whose full identify is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was sentenced to twenty years in jail within the case. He was discovered responsible of three youngster pornography counts and three counts of attractive minors for intercourse however acquitted of seven different fees that included obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to obtain youngster pornography.
Kelly in 2021 was convicted in one other trial by a jury in New York Metropolis’s borough of Brooklyn on all 9 fees he confronted, together with racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which forbids transporting individuals throughout state strains for prostitution. He was given a 30-year jail sentence in that case, set to largely overlap together with his sentence within the Chicago case.
Kelly is incarcerated at a Butner, North Carolina federal jail and is eligible for launch in 2045, in accordance with federal Bureau of Prisons information.
Kelly filed his Supreme Court docket attraction after the Chicago-based seventh US Circuit Court docket of Appeals in April rejected his problem.
