Two further trials are still pending for the Grammy-winning singer: one in Minnesota and another in state court in Chicago.
By MICHAEL TARM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one. Kelly has already been convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly’s inner circle increasingly focused on doing what Kelly wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.Four Kelly accusers testified, all referred to by pseudonyms or their first names: Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. Some cried when describing the abuse but otherwise spoke calmly and with confidence. A fifth accuser, Brittany, did not testify.
A single video, which state prosecutors said was Kelly abusing a girl of around 14, was the focal point of that trial. Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had visited Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
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