US Supreme Court rebuffs singer R. Kelly’s challenge to sex abuse conviction

Judge Ann Donnelly sentences R Kelly for federal sex trafficking in New York

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear imprisoned former R&B superstar R. Kelly’s appeal of his 2022 federal conviction on charges involving child pornography and luring underage girls to have sex with him, one of two cases in which he was found guilty of sex crimes.

The justices turned away Kelly’s challenge to a lower court’s decision upholding his conviction by a federal jury in Chicago.

(Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham)