Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images. In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois’ former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case. He also argued charges involving one accuser should have been tried separately from the charges tied to three other accusers due to video evidence that became a focal point of the trial.