R. Kelly Crimes: Sex Convictions Could Be Reversed Under Protect Act

R. Kelly’s latest attempt to reduce his fifty year prison sentence comes at the legal aide of his attorney who recently filed an appeal to overturn his sex crime convictions.

According to a TMZ report, Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court citing his convictions should be overturned due to the statute of limitations of the PROTECT Act used to prosecute the Chicago singer.

Bonjean hopes to sway the courts to see the injustice of convicting a man of possessing child pornography and engaging in sexual acts with underage girls in the mid to late-1990s, by using the PROTECT act, which didn’t become law until 2003 – years after the crimes were committed. The PROTECT Act expands the federal statute of limitation for sex acts of the underaged.

The appeal would only apply to the 2022 conviction of which the “Step In The Name of Love” singer is serving 20 years. The preceding 30-year-sentence for sex trafficking would still stand. That is, unless Kellz finds another loophole or glitch in the judicial system that could potentially work in his favor.

This attempt would make Kelly’s second appeal using the PROTECT Act. The first was rejected at the appellate and district level.