![]() ![]() Lurid testimony intended to prove those acts included accusations of rape, druggings, imprisonment and child pornography. To convict Kelly of racketeering, jurors had to find him guilty of at least two of 14 “predicate acts” - the crimes elemental to the wider pattern of illegal wrongdoing. Prosecutors were tasked with proving Kelly guilty of racketeering, a federal charge commonly associated with organized crime syndicates that depicted Kelly as the boss of an enterprise of associates who facilitated his abuse.Ĭalling 45 witnesses including 11 alleged victims to the stand, they painstakingly presented a pattern of crimes they say the artist born Robert Sylvester Kelly carried out for years with impunity, capitalizing on his fame to prey on the less powerful. It was also the first time Kelly faced criminal consequences for the abuse he for decades was rumored to have inflicted on women and children. Kelly’s conviction in New York was widely seen as a milestone for the #MeToo movement: It was the first major sex abuse trial where the majority of accusers were Black women. The musician who once dominated R&B also faces prosecution in two other state jurisdictions. ![]() ![]() In that case, Kelly and two of his former associates are alleged to have rigged the singer’s 2008 pornography trial and hid years of sexual abuse of minors. The sentence comes just over a month before jury selection is due to start in Kelly’s separate, long-delayed federal trial in Chicago on August 15. ![]()
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