The state of Illinois is set to drop its Cook County charges against disgraced singer #RKelly.
Cook County’s state attorney Kim Foxx said the “extensive sentences” that Kelly already serving at a federal level in New York meant that “justice has been served.”
Foxx told reporters Monday that she couldn’t justify spending the time and resources to go to trial now that Kelly has been convicted twice on federal charges following his lengthy prison sentence on federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York last year.
“Sometimes justice is served even when there is no conviction,” Foxx said.
The Grammy-winning singer was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in 2022 for sexually abusing women and underage girls and boys over the course of decades.
Based on the New York sentence alone, Kelly won’t be eligible for release until he is in his 80s.
