R. Kelly Child-Pornography Trial Postponed Yet Again

[Damien J.]

Just one month ago, it looked like the wait was over — but a Chicago judge decided on Tuesday (September 4) that the child-pornography criminal case against R. Kelly, which has been pending for five years, will not be going to trial on September 17 after all.
Judge Vincent Gaughan had previously scheduled the trial date at a hearing on August, but changed his mind at a status hearing Tuesday, after taking into consideration that the lead prosecutor, Shauna Boliker, who recently gave birth, would not be able to proceed per her doctor's orders. Boliker, the chief of Illinois' Cook County Sex Crimes Division, had previously gone right back to work after the births of her two other children.

Per a gag order, neither side was permitted to comment on this new delay, the latest in a long series of postponements. The pre-trial phase alone has lasted longer than other celebrity trials, or even other child-pornography trials, which usually begin with a year or two of charges being filed. Many of the delays have been medical in nature, such as when Kelly needed emergency surgery for a burst appendix in February, and when Judge Gaughan fell off a ladder, causing multiple fractures, last summer.

Kelly was charged with 21 counts of child pornography in 2002 (seven of which were later dropped) for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a girl prosecutors said was 14 years old at the time; he pleaded not guilty.

A new date for the trial has yet to be determined. The next status hearing in the case is set for Monday.

If Kelly is convicted of the charges, he faces a prison term of up to 15 years and a fine of up to $100,000.

This report is provided by MTV News

[Styles1]

stick him in a cell with Big Bubba the Butt Burglar...

[d-nice]

The case is cutting into his recording and tour time. 

[Tha Psycho Hustla]

Oooh Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[KURUPTION-81]

really dont understand how it takes 5 years for this to go to trial

[Blu Lacez]

really dont understand how it takes 5 years for this to go to trial

think it's cuz of the unco-operative nature of the victim..

[R-Tistic]

She's definitely like 22 now, so I'm sure she could care less. I think it was about a year and a half or two years after the tape was created that it got out...and they said she was 14 on tape, and was probably 16 at the time. That was 2001, which means she's about 22 now. And since she was my age when the tape came out, of course I saw it...and damm, she was doin it like she was 25.

I still think it's funny that R. Kelly wrote "Age ain't nothin but a number" for Aaliyah, just so the catch phrase would get out there, and married her when she was 15 and he was like 31.

[P Nelson]

[morbidenigma]

dis dude aint eva goin jail

[Styles1]

i didn't know that he was married, until I saw a magazibe interview with Mrs. R. Kelly....lol.... that poor girl been through some shit....but she puts up with it so is on her...