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        <title><![CDATA[Appeals court denies R. Kelly’s bid for freedom in sex-trafficking case]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An appeals court shot down R. Kelly’s latest bid for freedom Tuesday, ruling that a federal judge acted appropriately in denying the R&amp;B singer&#8217;s repeated bail requests.</p><p>&#8220;We perceive no clear error in the district court’s determination,&#8221; wrote the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit. &#8220;The government has demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that Kelly presents a risk of danger to the community.&#8221;</p><p>In the decision, the panel affirmed U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly&#8217;s determination that the &#8220;I Believe I Can Fly&#8221; crooner is a flight risk.</p><p>Attorneys for Kelly, whose given name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, filed the appeal after Donnelly denied more than <strong>three bail applications</strong> in his Brooklyn sex-trafficking case.</p><p>The ruling comes less than two weeks after another inmate <strong>attacked</strong> the &#8220;Ignition&#8221; crooner in his jail cell in Chicago, where he&#8217;s being held on a separate <strong>child sex-abuse indictment</strong>.</p><p>The Grammy-Award winner&#8217;s lawyers have requested his release on several grounds &#8212; including that he can&#8217;t properly prepare for trial during the coronavirus-induced lockdowns of federal jails.</p><p>His attorney Steven Greenberg said he hasn&#8217;t had an in-person meeting with his client for six months.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re tremendously disappointed,&#8221; Greenberg said of the court&#8217;s decision. &#8220;We believe that there&#8217;s a double standard applied to R. Kelly, that he absolutely should be released and that there is zero chance that he can have a fair trial if he is not.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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