Illinois prosecutors drop pending criminal cases against R. Kelly, who remains imprisoned on federal convictions

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Illinois prosecutors drop pending criminal cases against R. Kelly, who remains imprisoned on federal convictions

By Raja Razek, CNN Prosecutors in Illinois’ Cook County have dropped state sex-crime charges against singer R. Kelly, who has already been convicted of federal charges set to keep him in prison for decades. The Illinois charges — aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse counts involving four accusers — are being dropped in part because of the prison sentences he’s already facing for his federal convictions, Cook Co…

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Illinois prosecutors drop pending criminal cases against R. Kelly, who remains imprisoned on federal convictions

By Raja Razek, CNN Prosecutors in Illinois’ Cook County have dropped state sex-crime charges against singer R. Kelly, who has already been convicted of federal charges set to keep him in prison for decades. The Illinois charges — aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse counts involving four accusers — are being dropped

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Prosecutors drop state charges against R. Kelly following federal convictions

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More than a decade after his first trial in 2008, Cook County, Illinois, prosecutors have dropped charges against the disgraced rapper R. Kelly. With hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify, Kelly (whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly), is now notoriously known for being a sex offender convicted of racketeering and multiple sex offenses such as sex trafficking, racketeering, production of child porn and a slew of others. The 56-year-ol…

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Illinois prosecutors drop pending legal instances in opposition to R. Kelly, who stays imprisoned on federal convictions

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