CHICAGO — A dramatic legal saga that began in a Cook County courtroom 20 years ago will draw to a close Thursday when disgraced R&B star R. Kelly is slated for sentencing in Chicago’s federal courthouse on convictions related to child pornography and sexual conduct with minors.
While Kelly faces anywhere from 10 to 90 years, the sentence itself might seem superfluous since he’s already serving three decades in prison on a federal racketeering case in New York. Just about the only question left is whether he gets more time tacked on in a consecutive sentence that would make it a virtual certainty he’ll never be released.
But just like every aspect of the criminal cases against the Chicago-born singer, Thursday’s hearing at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse promises to be contentious.
