Kelly, 56, is already serving a 30-year sentence in a racketeering and sex trafficking case.
A US federal appeals court upheld R. Kelly’s 20-year prison sentence over child pornography and other crimes, rejecting the R&B singer’s defence that the case was filed too late.
Kelly was sentenced in February last year but his lawyers argued the statute of limitations had passed by the time he was charged, a defence the Chicago court rejected on Friday.
“Those crimes caught up with him at last. But Kelly — interposing a statute-of-limitations defence — thinks he delayed the charges long enough to elude them entirely. The statute says otherwise, so we affirm his conviction.”
