In fact, read this article and focus on this piece:

“Prosecutors sometimes choose to go ahead with more trials out of a concern that convictions elsewhere could be reversed during appeals. They see an opportunity for additional convictions as insurance.

“We didn’t do a monetary cost-benefit analysis,” Foxx said, adding, however, that resources spent on a trial now could instead be used “in advocacy for other survivors of sexual abuse.”

And then recognize this one victim’s assault case began before the federal convictions ever spooled up:

“Foxx announced the Cook County charges months before the federal cases in New York and Chicago. Foxx's office alleged he repeatedly sought out girls for sex, including one he encountered at her 16th birthday party and another who met Kelly while he was on trial in 2008.”

And then worst of all, the DA begged women to come forward to strengthen the case:

“Foxx, who in 2019 had pleaded with women and girls to come forward so she could pursue charges against Kelly, acknowledged that the decision “may be disappointing” to his accusers.”

It is a colossal failure for those specific victims that R Kelly will be guilty of everything but actual sexual abuse.

Why would it cost tax payers millions of dollars? Is it the judge making that money? The prosecutors who have a specific salary they are paid? Is it the court clerks? Why assume this would cost millions? It costs the defendant a fuck ton of money because they have to pay a defense attorney, but where does this “millions” come from for one trial?

The decision to move forward should be based on a grand jury if the victim elects to press charges, and there is sufficient evidence. That is the DA serving taxpayers, b/c the victims are taxpayers.

And again, separate crimes, separate punishments. If the judge choose to run those sentences concurrently, so be it.

And yes, I am speaking with my emotions because I have empathy for the victim. As we all should. They have right to have a crime committed against them be prosecuted just as the others did. End of story,

But it’s for the victim. They were violated. That deserves the punishment for the crime. And my brother didn’t get a lighter sentence. He didn’t receive any sentence for his other crime. That’s my point. He’s doing time for one crime that truthfully isn’t even the worst crime he committed. Not even close. But they stopped short of doing the full investigation necessary to unpack and prosecute his worst crimes because they’d already gotten his confession for the first one.

That’s not lighter sentencing. That’s not sentencing for a separate crime at all.

Plus, what if some weird shit happens like what happened with Cosby and he finds his way out of prison later? You prosecute all of it. As separate crimes done to separate victims.

Wrong. This victim will never get Justice. They’ll never get to see this man answer for his crime. He could spend the rest of his life denying it and their will have been no court of law to hold him accountable to that guilt.

This is how my brother ended up in prison on a lighter sentence than he deserved. Prosecutors already had his confession of one assault so why go through the hoops to maybe prove he’s manufactured and distributed images too? I told them it’d all be on his Xbox. They didn’t care. His confession to sexual assault meant he’d do some time and that was enough for them.

“Knights of Cydonia” by Muse.