Superstar-turned-felon R. Kelly wouldn't be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors' recommendations at his sentencing hearing Thursday in his hometown of Chicago.
The central question for Judge Harry Leinenweber is whether to order that Kelly serve a Chicago sentence simultaneously with the New York sentence or that he start serving his Chicago sentence only after he completes the New York term.
But they argued Kelly's "desire to sexually abuse children is insatiable" and such a sentence was required "to protect the community from" him.Kelly's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, asked for a sentence of around 10 years - on the low end of the guideline range. But if they conclude a defendant's crimes were particularly egregious, they can decide that the only way to deter such crimes is to order sentences be served one after the other.
"Because Kelly is Kelly, more people have watched child pornography," their filing said. "The effects of Kelly's conduct are wide-ranging, incalculable and irreversible."Bonjean accused prosecutors of offering an "embellished narrative" in their sentencing memo "to inflame the passions of the public and the Court" against Kelly.
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