R. Kelly has been scheduled to stand trial in Chicago next summer on allegations of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
After the scheduled sentence for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York, a federal judge ordered the R&B artist to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber seemed to want the trial in Chicago to start sooner, but he delayed it until August 1 when one of Kelly’s attorneys, Steven Greenberg, stated that he and another of Kelly’s attorneys will be in court on other cases through July.
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Kelly, who is still imprisoned in New York, was on a conference call listening to the hearing but did not speak.
The singer faces up to life in prison during his sentence for the federal trial in New York, where he was convicted guilty of all nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Kelly, who was born Robert Sylvester Kelly, is also facing four other indictments in state court in Chicago alleging sexual assault and an allegation of child prostitution in Minnesota.
Experts have suggested that if he obtains a substantial prison sentence in New York, prosecutors may withdraw the allegations in state court. The federal accusations in Chicago, on the other hand, are almost certainly not going to be dropped.
Kelly has been imprisoned without bail since January of this year.
Kelly’s other lawyer, Deveraux Cannick, expressed disappointment with the conviction after Kelly was convicted in federal court in New York in September on accusations that reach back decades and derive from six complainant witnesses.
“I think I’m even more disappointed the government brought the case in the first place given all the inconsistencies,” Cannick said at the time.
According to Greenburg, Kelly was placed on suicide watch after the September verdict, but that watch has now ended.
