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A jury found R&B singer R. Kelly guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
In this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine charges: one count of racketeering, with 14 underlying acts including charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, kidnapping, bribery and sex trafficking and also faced eight additional charges of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law.
The jury, made up of seven men and five women, began deliberating on Friday afternoon.
In all, Kelly could face decades in prison at sentencing.
The verdict comes 13 years after Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was acquitted of child pornography charges in an Illinois state trial.
R. Kelly will be sentenced on May 4.
An attorney for Kelly said the defense is considering filing an appeal.
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