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The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that R. Kelly's trial on charges of child pornography will now be delayed until Spring '08.

"We are not going to be going to trial the 17th of September," said Judge Vincent Gaughan Tuesday (Sept. 4).

Kelly, 40, had been scheduled to go on trial Sept. 17 on child pornography charges.

Prosecutors charged Kelly in 2002 with making a 26-minute videotape in which he appears to be having sex with an underage girl. Kelly pleaded not guilty. The girl, allegedly 14 on the tape, is now 22 and has denied she is the one who appears.

A law enforcement force tells the Times the reason for the delay is the trial of accused Brown's Chicken killer James Degorski. Gaughan previously presided over the trial of now-convicted Brown's Chicken killer accomplice Juan Luna.

Gaughan is expected to announce a new trial date for Kelly on Sept. 10.