Federal charges ramp up pressure on RKelly to make deal
when he was indicted
“Federal charges are the major leagues. It’s a completely different ballgame for Kelly now,” said Phil Turner, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. Any negotiations would be complicated, as Kelly is charged in four jurisdictions and his lawyers would likely insist on a single deal that resolves all the cases. And prosecutors would only accept a deal that includes a lengthy prison term, said Gal Pissetzky, a Chicago trial lawyer who has represented multiple clients in plea discussions with the U.S. attorney’s office.
Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all the charges — except the new ones in Minnesota, where he will be arraigned later. The 21 Illinois state charges accuse him of sexually abusing three girls and a woman over a roughly 10-year period starting in the late 1990s. The two Minnesota charges, prostitution and solicitation, allege that he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room in 2001 and paid her $200 to dance naked with him.
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