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Michael Avenatti, who said he is representing six people related to the case, left the courthouse in a black SUV seeming optimistic that Kelly will \"spend the rest of his life\" in prison.

\"With a conviction in this case, he is never going to walk free another day of his life especially with a mandatory minimum sentence,\" said Avenatti.

Late Friday, Kelly's lawyer called the accusers liars.

\"I think all the women are lying,\" Greenberg told reporters at a press conference. \"This has become, 'Hey, R. Kelly -- I can say R. Kelly did something' -- boom.\"

Greenberg also said that in indicting Kelly, Foxx caved into public pressure.

\"I had a discussion with the state's attorney’s office earlier this week [and] we were supposed to meet next week and have a discussion about what they had,\" he said. \"I was gonna be allowed to address what they had, then they just decided to indict him today for whatever reason. I suspect this is succumbing to public pressure.\"

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PHOTO: R. Kelly performing during a concert in Amsterdam, April 19, 2011.
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Greenberg also claimed one of the victims is the same person in a 2003 child pornography case in which Kelly was acquitted in 2008.

\"One of the cases seems to be a rehash he was acquitted for. Double jeopardy should apply to everyone,\" Greenberg said.

During the hearing prosecutors told the judge there is no case of double jeopardy involving the victim from Kelly’s previous acquittal because \"it is not the same video.\"

Kelly is also facing at least three different federal investigations including at least one focusing on his alleged relationships with underage girls, who may have been trafficked, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News.

The FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the IRS have opened investigations after “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired on Lifetime starting Jan. 3.

All three agencies declined to comment.

HSI is looking at potential crimes involving sex trafficking and child exploitation. The investigations were first reported by The New Yorker, by Jim DeRogatis, who has been reporting on R. Kelly for almost 20 years.

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PHOTO: R. Kelly, seen in his mugshot after surrendering to Chicago police on Feb. 22, 2019, has been indicted on 10 counts of felony criminal sexual abuse.
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On Thursday, two more women, Latresa Scaff and Rochelle Washington, said they were victims of R. Kelly. Their attorney, Gloria Allred, said the women spoke with federal prosecutors.

\"Yesterday, I indicated that my two clients who held a press conference here in New York would be speaking to law enforcement, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, and they did in fact have that interview,\" Allred told WABC.

In addition, Michael Avenatti, who is representing two alleged victims of Kelly, said he gave Cook County prosecutors a video depicting the singer allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old.

\"Earlier this month we uncovered and recovered a video tape of over 40 minutes in length,\" Avenatti said at a press conference Friday. \"We promptly brought it to the attention of Ms. Foxx and others in her office. This tape leaves no question as to whether R. Kelly is guilty of multiple sexual illegal acts against a 14-year-old girl. The tape was shot in the late '90s, approximately 1999, [and] it depicts two separate scenes shot on two separate days within Mr. Kelly's residence at the time.\"

\"Repeatedly on the video both the victim and Mr. Kelly refer to the victim's age as being 14,\" Avenatti said. \"That occurs in excess of 10 separate times on the video, both the victim and Mr. Kelly can be heard referencing her age.\"

Greenberg said he hadn't seen the video, but denied the allegation.

\"Unfortunately, the state's attorney now succumbed to public pressure, to pressure from grandstanders like Michael Avenatti,\" Greenberg said.

ABC News' Linsey Davis and Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

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