CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal demo in Chicago that starts off Monday is in a lot of ways a do-over of his 2008 state youngster pornography demo, at which jurors acquitted the singer on rates that he manufactured a movie of himself when he was about 30 owning intercourse with a girl no more mature than 14.

There is 1 significant big difference: This time, prosecutors say, she will testify.

Kelly, 55, goes into Chicago federal court docket currently sentenced by a New York federal decide to a 30-calendar year prison time period for a 2021 conviction on costs he parlayed his fame to sexually abuse other young enthusiasts.

Among the the most major costs the Grammy Award winner faces at his federal demo is conspiracy to impede justice by rigging the 2008 demo, including by shelling out off and threatening the lady to be certain she did not testify.

Testimony by the woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be pivotal. The charges towards Kelly also include 4 counts of the enticement of minors for sex — one rely just about every for 4 other accusers. All are also slated to testify.

Even just one particular or two convictions in Chicago could increase many years to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is desirable. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be close to 80 prior to qualifying for early launch.

Prosecutors at the federal demo approach to engage in the very same VHS tape that was “Exhibit No. 1″ at the 2008 trial. Even though it was the only video clip in evidence 14 years in the past, at minimum a few other videos will be entered into proof at the federal demo.

Prosecutors say Kelly shot the movie of Insignificant 1 in a log cabin-themed home at his North Facet Chicago household in between 1998 and 2000 when she was as younger as 13. In it, the female is listened to contacting the guy “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly experienced sex hundreds of situations over the years in his households, recording studios and tour buses.

Ahead of the 2008 demo, Kelly carried a duffle bag entire of intercourse tapes all over the place he went for decades, but some tapes later on went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg…