Is R Kelly on the run?
We don’t know, but he had a Court date today for his sex crimes, and he was a no show.
The judge was not amused and has issued a warrant for his arrest:
How does this all end?
Right now it looks like it might end badly. Â Very badly.
From Fox News:
A Minnesota judge issued a bench warrant for the arrest of R&B singer R. Kelly on Thursday after the musician failed to appear for an initial court hearing in a case in which he's accused of offering a 17-year-old girl $200 to take off her clothes and dance in 2001.
Kelly -- who is jailed in Chicago on sexual abuse and other charges -- was charged in Minnesota in August for allegedly soliciting the girl after meeting her before a concert in Minneapolis.
During Thursday's brief hearing, prosecutor Judith Cole told Judge Jay Quam that federal authorities in Illinois were "not willing to give us access to him" until his case there is resolved. The judge then issued a bench warrant as a formality.
Kelly attorney Steve Greenberg, who didn't attend the hearing and isn't officially registered in the Minnesota case, said neither he nor his client ever got notice of it. Greenberg also insisted on Twitter that neither he nor Kelly was "served with any notice of court proceedings."
"I did not resist his appearance, nor did he," Greenberg added.
"He is in custody," Greenberg continued. "It is the prosecutor who must obtain a court order for #RKelly to appear, and it is the prosecutor who must go get him if, as here, he is in custody elsewhere. They do not just give him a travel pass from federal custody."
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