Jermaine Dupri Defends R. Kelly’s Legacy Despite Sex Crimes
Jermaine Dupri is coming to the protection of R. Kelly‘s legacy, despite it being tarnished in recent years due to his sex crime convictions.
During an Instagram Live on Tuesday (October 1), the legendary producer acknowledged that while the embattled singer has his issues, no one can top himon the music side of things.
“R. Kelly put the ‘R’ in R&B,” JD mentioned. “We gotta stop playing around. I get it. I understand. I’m not here to talk about none of that bullshit he’s involved with. He is the R in R&B. Hands down.”
Later in his stay, he shared his ideas on the present state of the style, noting that the dearth of church expertise amongst younger folks at the moment is impacting the music and making much less soulful information.
R. Kelly has been making an attempt to have his convictions for numerous intercourse crimes overturned resulting from a authorized loophole.
The disgraced R&B legend has petitioned the United States Supreme Court in July to throw out his convictions primarily based on the truth that his alleged crimes occurred many years in the past and the costs subsequently fall outdoors the statute of limitations.
Because Kelly was convicted for incidents courting again to the mid Nineties, the singer’s crew argued that the PROTECT Act, which he was charged with violating, doesn’t apply to his case because it didn’t turn into a regulation till 2003 — regardless of prosecutors efficiently arguing that the regulation’s statue of limitations are indefinite.
Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean mentioned that the Act’s expanded statute of limitations doesn’t apply to the costs towards her consumer.
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The Supreme Court will reportedly resolve whether or not to listen to the attraction within the coming months.
Back in 2022, a grand jury discovered R. Kelly responsible on six of the 13 federal costs he was dealing with, which included three baby pornography costs for sexually abusing 4 ladies — three of whom had been minors.
They additionally discovered the Chicago native responsible of constructing movies of himself sexually assaulting his 14-year-old goddaughter, which resulted in one other three costs for producing intercourse tapes with a minor.
