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   Four years after announcing bombshell new charges against R&B   
   superstar R. Kelly, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx   
   revealed Monday that her office would not be taking the cases to   
   trial due to “limited resources” and the fact that Kelly is   
   already facing decades in federal prison.   
      
   The county cases, all of which accused Kelly of sexual abuse or   
   assault, were filed against the singer in February 2019, shortly   
   after the airing of the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly”   
   that resurrected interest in the decades of allegations swirling   
   around Kelly and prompted Foxx to make a personal plea for   
   accusers to come forward.   
      
   At a news conference Monday at the Cook County Administration   
   Building, the same place where she’d made that unusual outreach   
   to victims, Foxx said the indictments will be dismissed Tuesday   
   morning during Kelly’s previously scheduled court date at the   
   Leighton Criminal Court Building.   
      
   Given that Kelly is facing decades in prison on separate federal   
   convictions, Foxx said her office decided “not to expend our   
   limited resources and court time” pursuing its own cases.   
      
   “I want to acknowledge that when we brought these charges   
   forward, we brought them because we believe the allegations to   
   be credible, and we believe they deserve to have the opportunity   
   to have the allegations heard,” Foxx said.   
      
   Foxx said Kelly’s accusers “are to be commended for their   
   bravery and their relentless pursuit of justice no matter how   
   long it took.”   
      
   [ ‘My case matters’: R. Kelly accuser opens up about waiting for   
   justice and pain over charges being dropped ]   
      
   Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the cases were going to   
   be dropped, particularly after a series of status hearings   
   before Associate Judge Lawrence Flood came and went with no   
   progress toward trial.   
      
   Foxx, who noted she herself is a survivor of sexual violence,   
   said her office made the decision after consulting with the   
   victims in each of the four cases. Their reactions were mixed,   
   she said. Some were also involved in the federal cases and were   
   satisfied with the ultimate outcome, especially given that the   
   process of going through the federal cases was stressful.   
      
   “For those who did not have an opportunity to put their hand on   
   the Bible, or who have felt for the last 20 years that their   
   pain was not recognized, certainly this is a disappointing day   
   for them,” Foxx said, noting that one woman was particularly   
   chagrined to learn she would not be getting her day in court.   
      
   “Her pain and her case was no less significant than the others,”   
   Foxx said, noting that the office brought the charges because   
   they found the allegations credible.   
      
   In an exclusive interview Monday night, Lanita Carter — the   
   woman at the center of one of the Cook County indictments — said   
   she believes she is the woman Foxx was referring to.   
      
   Carter told police in 2003 that Kelly sexually abused her in a   
   particularly degrading manner when she arrived for an   
   appointment to braid his hair. No charges were filed back then.   
   And when she learned prosecutors were dropping the 2019   
   indictment, she was devastated, she said.   
      
   “It made me feel so low. And it just, it made me feel like I   
   didn’t matter again, just like I didn’t in 2003. I wanted to   
   matter this time,” she said. “And I spoke out because I believed   
   that everybody was going to do something, and I felt stronger.   
   And it didn’t happen for me.”   
      
   “If you believe me, then you fight for me. If you believe me,   
   you advocate for me,” she said.   
      
   Kelly’s attorney, Steven Greenberg, said he was happy with   
   Foxx’s decision, but that it reinforced his belief that the   
   charges were an inappropriate reaction to a one-sided television   
   series at the height of the #MeToo movement.   
      
   “As I’ve said all along, I don’t think these charges should have   
   been brought in the first place,” Greenberg said. “I think that   
   these cases were reactionary. The idea of soliciting so-called   
   victims was ill-advised and never should have happened.”   
      
   Jennifer Bonjean, another of Kelly’s attorneys, said that taking   
   him to trial in Cook County — particularly on the cases that   
   involved the same victims and conduct for which he was already   
   tried federally, would be piling on.   
      
   “He only has one life to give,” she said. “I think it was a good   
   use of prosecutorial discretion.”   
      
   Kelly, 56, who remains in custody at the Metropolitan   
      
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