R.Kelly denied bail, trial date set for 2020
Written by MAX FM on October 3, 2019
American singer Robert Kelly AKA R.Kelly’s woes appear to be compounding as he has yet again been denied bail. The singers application for bail has been denied as his trail date has been set for May, 2020.
According to an insider, R.Kelly had asked to be released while awaiting trial. His lawyers argued that he doesn’t have any money to run even if he wanted to.
However, Judge Ann Donnelly a Brooklyn federal judge refused that request on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. According to her, Kelly is accused of committing crimes involving “very young girls,”his finances are “murky, to say the least”and the proposed home detention “certainly would do nothing to deter him” from intimidating witnesses.
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Although R.Kelly wasn’t in court for the sitting, his lawyers were unable to convince the Judge to grant him bail. A new date, May 18, 2020, has been set for trial and the judge said the proceeding is expected to last about three weeks. Back in August 2019, R.Kelly was denied bail by a Brooklyn magistrate after fresh charges were leveled against him.
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R. Kelly pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Friday, August 2, 2019, to charges of racketeering and transporting women and girls for sex and was held without bail.
PageSix reports that a sad-looking Kelly entered the plea through his lawyer Douglas Anton as his two girlfriends and alleged sex slaves Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary looked on from the gallery.
