R. Kelly asks court to vacate his 2023 child s3x crimes conviction  

Troubled American singer Robert Kelly popularly known in music circles as R. Kelly has demanded that the US Supreme Court vacate his 2023 child s3x crimes conviction.
R. Kelly’s lawyers filed an appeal with the high court on Tuesday, arguing that the federal PROTECT Act, a 2003 law that allows prosecutors to pursue charges for child s3xual abusers during the child’s lifetime, does not apply to the musician’s case because the abuse occurred prior to the act’s implementation.
The singer’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, in her petition stated that when Congress adopted the 2003 law, they “did not express an intent” for it to apply retroactively.
“Consistent with the well-established presumption against retroactive legislation, the 2003 amendment is inapplicable to the charged conduct,” Bonjean wrote.
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Now she’s asking the Supreme Court to consider whether the law should apply to R. Kelly who has been slammed with 13 charges brought before him by Federal Prosecutors in the city of Chicago under the PROTECT Act, in 2020 for crimes the musician committed against three underage girls in the 1990s.
Recall that the 57-year-old musician was found guilty of committing multiple s3x offenses against children, but he believes the statute used to accuse him was filed improperly.
He was found guilty of six of the offenses, including making child pornography and coercing adolescents into illegal s3xual behavior. Kelly is currently serving a 20-year term for his crime.
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