{"id":6413,"date":"2025-06-11T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-requests-jail-release-alleging-murder-plot-by-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:44:08","slug":"r-kelly-requests-jail-release-alleging-murder-plot-by-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-requests-jail-release-alleging-murder-plot-by-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Requests Jail Release, Alleging Murder Plot by Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tR. Kelly is asking to cut short his 30-plus-year sentence for racketeering, sexual abuse and child pornography based on strange new claims that jail officials tried to solicit a fellow inmate to kill him.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe disgraced R&B star made the eyebrow-raising allegations in a Tuesday (June 10) court filing asking to be released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., where he\u2019s serving multiple decades after being convicted in two separate criminal cases.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly claims he\u2019s no longer safe behind bars because prison officials are trying to have him killed to keep from revealing prosecutorial misconduct he recently uncovered \u2014 namely, that his pre-trial cellmate stole his attorney-client communications and shared these private messages with prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the motion, prison officials tried to stop this damaging information from getting out by soliciting fellow inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, to kill Kelly. Kelly\u2019s lawyers say that while Stine ultimately did not go through with the alleged assignment, the threat still lingers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMore A.B. members are accumulating at his facility,\u201d reads the filing. \u201cMore than one has already been approached about carrying out his murder. One of them will surely do what Mr. Stine has not, thereby burying the truth about what happened in this case along with Robert Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe motion includes signed declarations from both Stine and Kelly\u2019s former cellmate. In a statement shared with Billboard<\/em>, Kelly\u2019s attorney, Beau Brindley<\/strong>, said, \u201cThe evidence we have before us demonstrates the weaponization of the D.O.J. to pursue a public figure through corrupt and criminal means.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrindley added that Kelly\u2019s legal team is seeking clemency from President Donald Trump, saying Trump \u201cis the only one with both the power and the courage\u201d to curb such alleged prosecutorial corruption.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors did not immediately return a request for comment on the motion, but they quickly filed papers of their own asking Judge Martha M. Pacold to strike Kelly\u2019s filing, which contained the name of a child victim who was anonymized during his trial.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRobert Kelly is a serial sexual predator,\u201d wrote prosecutors. \u201cHe even documented his sexual abuse of children on film \u2014 creating child pornography \u2014 such that the abuse would live on in perpetuity. That abuse and harassment continues with defendant\u2019s latest filing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Pacold struck the motion as requested and ordered Kelly\u2019s team to refile it with the victim\u2019s name properly redacted. The judge set a hearing on the matter for Wednesday (June 11) in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly was convicted of a slew of sex crimes at two separate federal trials. A New York jury found him guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking in 2021, and he was convicted of child pornography and enticing minors for sex in Chicago in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former R&B star was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the New York conviction and 20 years in the Chicago case, although the vast majority of the second sentence will overlap with the first. Both convictions have been upheld on appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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