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Disgraced singer R. Kelly has had his attempts to appeal his 20 year prison sentence quashed by an appeals court.
Jurors in 2022 convicted the R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing child porn, and three charges of enticement of minors for sex.
In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois' former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive.
The 57-year-old also argued that charges involving one accuser should have been tried separately from the charges tied to three other accusers due to video evidence that became a focal point of the Chicago trial.
In their Friday ruling, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals rejected Kelly's argument that he should not have been prosecuted since the
