R. Kelly petitions Supreme Court to throw out sex crime convictions

Attorneys for R&B singer R. Kelly filed an appeal to his federal sex crimes conviction with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing his conviction should be tossed over the statute of limitations.

Kelly, who is already serving a 30-year sentence for sex trafficking from a 2021 North Carolina case, was also convicted in 2022 of producing child pornography, adding a simultaneous 20-year sentence. Tuesday’s appeal applies to the federal child pornography case tried in Chicago.