CHICAGO — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago is set to kick off in August after a judge on Tuesday denied a request to postpone it by three months.
In a motion filed Monday, Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, asked for the delay based on a number of factors, including the complexity of the charges, the enormous amount of evidence that has been turned over, and her relatively late entry into the hot-button case.
She also wrote in the motion there may be issues with some of the purported sex tapes at the heart of the case, including one uncovered “under nefarious circumstances” by now-convicted celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, who turned it over to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in early 2019.
