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# Judge Sets R. Kelly's Bond at $1 Million

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_Published 2019-02-23. A judge on Saturday gave R. Kelly a chance to go free while the R&B star awaits trial on charges that he sexually abused four people, including three minors, in a case that seemed likely to produce another #MeToo reckoning for a celebrity._


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## Transcript

So we're very happy with the bond that the judge set. I think it's fair and reasonable given the allegations. We hope that Mr. Kelly's able to get the money together and post bond sometime today or over the weekend, and he'll be released. We're gonna see the chief judge on Monday. For those of you who are from out of town, the way cases work here is you go to bond court Then the case is assigned to the chief judge, which is actually the room just over there. And he then assigns the case to a trial court room upstairs in this building in our court house. So, we get our judge on Monday, after we get assigned to a judge we'll get what the call discovery, copies of police reports, video if it exists.

Lab reports and so forth, might happen Monday. Sometimes it takes a little while to get that stuff, sometimes it takes a long time to get that information, and then we'll be in a better position to evaluate the evidence.

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