R. Kelly hopes key technicality will move SCOTUS to overturn convictions for 1990s sex abuse

Robert Sylvester Kelly, the R&B singer better known as R. Kelly, is looking to overturn his Illinois federal convictions for child pornography and the sexual abuse of teenage girls by making the case to the U.S. Supreme Court that Congress, when extending the statute of limitations on such offenses in 2003, did not “expressly” intend to retroactively punish him for conduct going back to the 1990s. In a petition for a writ of certiorari last Thursday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean submitted one question for the justices to answer, should the...