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R. Kelly was convicted of multiple child pornography charges in a federal trial in Chicago and acquitted of others, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Kelly was convicted of three of the four counts of child pornography and was acquitted of charges he conspired to obstruct justice at his 2008 trial, which stemmed from a 2002 state case.
He was also found guilty of three of five counts of soliciting a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Jennifer Bonjean, Kelly’s attorney, said her client had a “sense of relief” that this case is now behind him, and felt prosecutors had overstated their case against him. Bonjean said he is considering filing an appeal.
“There was a mixed verdict, but we won more charges than we lost,” Bonjean said outside court after the verdict. “If this jury found that he was guilty on the first three counts, would they care enough to consider the evidence on the rest? And they showed that they did. They did their job. They looked at each count separately.”
Jurors deliberated for about 10 hours after hearing three weeks of testimony, including from a woman who testified anonymously that Kelly sexually abused her and recorded the interactions when she was 14 years old.
The woman was one of five minors that prosecutors allege Kelly sexually abused in the late 1990s by making explicit videos with four of them.
Kelly’s former partners were also charged in connection with this case. Derrel McDavid, Kelly’s former accountant and business manager, is charged with conspiracy to receive child pornography, receiving child pornography and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Milton “June” Brown, Kelly’s former assistant, is charged with conspiracy to receive child pornography.
Both pleaded not guilty.
This is a developing story.