R. Kelly is lobbying to have his convictions for child p*rnography and inducing minors to have sex thrown out.

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The disgraced R&B singer is asking the United States Supreme Court to dismiss the charges by using the argument that the acts he’s convicted of occurred decades ago – thus are  time barred by the statute of limitations.

When hit with the accusations in 2020, following the broadcast of ‘Surviving R. Kelly,’ the self-ordained “Pied Piper” argued that the alleged conduct dated back to the early 90s. Essentially, the basis of his clapback then is what he’s restating now. But there’s a twist.

At the time, prosecutors drew on a 2003 law named the Protect Act. An act that rendered the statute of limitations applicable in perpetuity when it came to crimes of this ilk.

However, Kelly’s legal team are drawing on nuance in an attempt to quash his conviction.

For, they are now arguing that the statute of limitations is indeed not applicable because the acts Kelly is convicted of occurred in the 90s and the Protect Act was passed in 2003.

Their angle, it appears, is the supposed retroactivity of the crimes and the Act.

Kelly’s team are resting filing on the basis that Congress did not specifically include a clause permitting the law to be applied to alleged conduct committed before 2003.

It will now be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether there is any merit to camp Kelly’s argument over the next few months.

Kelly is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of six of the thirteen counts. Of the convictions, three were for child p*rn and three for inducing.

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