{"id":6498,"date":"2025-06-14T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-in-solitary-confinement-after-murder-plot-claims-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:20:08","slug":"r-kelly-in-solitary-confinement-after-murder-plot-claims-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-in-solitary-confinement-after-murder-plot-claims-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly in Solitary Confinement After Murder Plot Claims: Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tR. Kelly\u2019s attorney claims the disgraced R&B star and convicted sex offender has been placed in solitary confinement as retaliation for publicizing bizarre allegations that prison officials tried to solicit a fellow inmate to kill him.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly\u2019s solitary confinement is the subject of a court filing late Thursday (June 12) from lawyer Beau Brindley<\/strong>, who earlier in the week petitioned a federal judge in Chicago to cut short the 30-plus-year prison sentence imposed on the singer (Robert Sylvester Kelly) for two sets of sex crime convictions.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrindley claimed on Tuesday (June 10) that prison officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., are trying to have Kelly killed to keep him from divulging prosecutorial misconduct he\u2019s supposedly uncovered since his trials. Brindley said a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang was tasked with Kelly\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Brindley says Kelly is facing retaliation for publicizing his strange allegations. The defense lawyer claims Kelly was placed in solitary confinement within hours of filing the motion for release, without access to a phone to call his family or lawyers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Kelly has spiders crawling over him as he tries to sleep,\u201d writes Brindley. \u201cHe is alone in the dark in miserable conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Brindley, Kelly has not eaten since being sent to solitary because he\u2019s afraid that prison officials might have his food poisoned. Guards won\u2019t let the singer access the peanut butter and crackers he previously purchased from the jail\u2019s commissary, Brindley says.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrindley\u2019s filing reiterates his request to have Kelly immediately released on a temporary furlough or transferred to home detention. In a statement to Billboard<\/em> on Friday (June 13), Brindley said he\u2019s even more worried about Kelly now because prison staff cancelled their scheduled morning legal call without explanation. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur concern for the wellbeing of Mr. Kelly is increasing by the day,\u201d Brindley says.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpokespeople for both the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Chicago declined to comment on Brindley\u2019s allegations on Friday (June 13).<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile prosecutors have not yet responded to the substance of Brindley\u2019s murder plot claims, they criticized the defense lawyer earlier this week for naming one of Kelly\u2019s anonymous child victims in the Tuesday motion. The judge in the case made Brindley re-file the motion with proper redactions, and prosecutors are due to file their response on Monday (June 16).<\/p>\n

\n\tBrindley, meanwhile, has been publicly asking President Donald Trump to pardon Kelly in conjunction with the long-shot allegations about a government conspiracy. In a statement earlier this week, Brindley said, \u201cThis is precisely the kind of prosecutorial corruption that President Trump has vowed to eradicate. We believe he is the only one with both the power and the courage to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly was convicted in 2021 and 2022 at two separate federal trials, one in New York and one in Chicago, on a slew of criminal charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, child pornography and enticing minors for sex.<\/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

\n\tThis story was updated on June 13 at 5:35 p.m. ET to include a new comment from Brindley. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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