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The
Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly,
was found guilty in 2022 of three charges of producing child
sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors
for sex.
His lawyers argued that a shorter statute of limitations on
child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to offenses
dating back to the 1990s. Current law permits charges while an
accuser is still alive.
The justices did not detail their reasoning in declining to hear
the case, as is typical. And none publicly dissented. Lower
courts previously rejected his arguments.
Federal prosecutors have said the video showed Kelly abusing a
girl. The accuser identified only as Jane testified that she was
14 when the video was taken.
Kelly has also appealed a separate 30-year sentence for federal
racketeering and sex trafficking convictions in New York.
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