Singer R. Kelly has petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn a sex offenses conviction.

On May 8, 2019, in Chicago, following a hearing in his child support lawsuit, R. Kelly departs the Daley Center. R. Kelly's attorney informed an appeals court on Monday, March 18, 2024, that a statute that was unfairly applied to convict the R&B singer of sexually abusing young fans, some of whom were children, for decades could classify a variety of lawful organizations, including college fraternities, as racketeering organizations. (AP / Matt Marton)

R. Kelly is requesting that his sex convictions for crimes that happened in the late 1990s be overturned by the Supreme Court by using the statute of limitations as justification.

R. Kelly, who was charged in 2020 with having child pornography and encouraging minor girls to have sex in the mid- to late-1990s, is now requesting that the US Supreme Court overturn his conviction. According to reports, the disgraced musician is claiming that his accusations against him are no longer valid because their alleged wrongdoing occurred decades ago.

Prosecutors, on the other hand, counterattacked, arguing that the PROTECT Act of 2003 made the statute of limitations for crimes involving child sex infinite. The artist was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2023 by a Chicago federal appeals court for convictions of child sexual assault. The term was to run concurrently with a 30-year sentence that had already been given in the Eastern District of New York for sex trafficking and racketeering.