US District Judge Harry Leinenweber ordered that Kelly serve one year in prison following the racketeering sentence, imposed last year in New York. Prosecutors had acknowledged that a lengthy term served only after the New York sentence could have erased any chance of Kelly ever getting out of prison alive. With Thursday's sentence, though, Kelly will serve no more than 31 years. Leinenweber said at the outset of the hearing that he did not accept the government's contention that Kelly used fear to woo underage girls for sex. She told the court Kelly "used Jane as a sex prop, a thing" for producing pornographic videos.
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