Cook County prosecutors intend to drop all charges against imprisoned R&B star R. Kelly, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Monday.
Given that Kelly is already facing decades in prison on federal convictions, “our office has decided not to expend our limited resources and court time with the indictments,” Foxx said at a news conference at the Cook County Administration Building, the same place where she announced the charges against Kelly nearly four years ago.Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the cases were going to be dropped, particularly after a series of status hearings before Associate Judge Lawrence Flood.
But the once-explosive indictments announced by Foxx soon took a back seat to a pair of federal investigations by U.S. Attorney’s offices in New York and Chicago that led to separate indictments announced in July 2019. Either route would have cost significant time and resources, and potentially require victims to relive traumatic moments on a very public witness stand.
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