R. Kelly is a step closer to trial after a Chicago judge refused yesterday (Oct. 28) to dismiss charges in a three-year old case against him for allegedly engaging in videotaped sex acts with an underage girl. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.
Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan rejected defense arguments that prosecutors have been too vague about when the alleged crime took place, said a county state’s attorney spokesperson.
Prosecutors claim the video was made sometime during a nearly three-year span between January 1998 and October 2000. They cut 18 months off their original timeframe of November 1997 to February 2002 after a judge agreed in June that the span was too broad.
Defense attorney Ed Genson did not return a call for comment. The next court date in the case was set for Dec. 9.
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