CHICAGO — Lawyers for R. Kelly have asked a federal judge in Chicago to give the disgraced R&B singer a concurrent sentence of about 11 years in prison for his conviction last year for sexually abusing teen girls.
In a court filing early Friday, Kelly’s lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, wrote the singer is already facing what amounts to the rest of his life in prison given the 30-year term handed down for his conviction on racketeering charges in New York in 2021.
Any additional prison time he receives for his Chicago case should be served at the same time, Bonjean wrote in arguing for a sentence of as little as 132 months — the low end of federal guidelines.
