{"id":6594,"date":"2025-06-20T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-denied-prison-release-amid-murder-plot-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:21:20","slug":"r-kelly-denied-prison-release-amid-murder-plot-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/r-kelly-denied-prison-release-amid-murder-plot-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Denied Prison Release Amid Murder Plot Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA<\/span> federal judge has rejected R. Kelly\u2019s emergency request to be let out of prison due to an alleged jailhouse murder plot against the disgraced R&B star, who\u2019s serving more than 30 years for multiple sex crime convictions.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly\u2019s attorney, Beau Brindley<\/strong>, has been petitioning a Chicago court for Kelly\u2019s release since last week, saying prison guards are trying to have the singer (Robert Sylvester Kelly) killed to stop him from uncovering prosecutorial misconduct in his case. Brindley claims jail officials attempted to solicit a fellow inmate to carry out the hit, and that when that didn\u2019t work, they fed Kelly an overdose quantity of sleeping pills and denied him medically-necessary surgery for blood clots.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors have dismissed the allegations as a \u201cfanciful conspiracy\u201d and \u201cdeeply unserious.\u201d Judge Martha M. Pacold denied the bid for release on Thursday (June 19) without addressing its merits, saying such a request must be brought as a civil rights lawsuit or habeas corpus petition in North Carolina, where Kelly is imprisoned.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJurisdictional limitations must be respected even where, as here, a litigant claims that the circumstances are extraordinary,\u201d wrote the judge.<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Pacold issued her decision ahead of a hearing that had been set for Friday (June 20), canceling the court date after seemingly learning all she needed to know from voluminous court papers that have been filed on the issue. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement shared with Billboard <\/em>on Thursday, Brindley said his team is \u201cnot surprised by this ruling as we knew that technical jurisdiction would be a challenge under these circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHowever, we had no choice but to act immediately given explicit evidence of a threat to Robert Kelly\u2019s life,\u201d Brindley added.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday (June 20), Brindley tried another avenue to convince the Chicago judge to release Kelly: filing a motion for a new trial and asking for emergency bail in the meantime.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Friday motion reiterates Brindley\u2019s previous allegations that prosecutors unlawfully pressured a witness to testify against Kelly and intercepted Kelly\u2019s communications with his lawyers ahead of his federal trial in Chicago.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf someone dies in prison, it seems commonplace,\u201d writes Brindley. \u201cWith that in mind, it becomes easy to understand how the people who committed this corruption and those that helped cover it up would rather kill a disgraced inmate convicted of sex crimes than face consequences that could ruin their lives and careers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe motion repeatedly notes that President Donald Trump is prioritizing rooting out corruption in the justice system. Brindley has publicly asked Trump to pardon Kelly in conjunction with the jailhouse murder plot claims.<\/p>\n

\n\tA spokesperson for prosecutors did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelly was convicted in Chicago of child pornography and enticing minors for sex in 2022, one year after a separate federal jury in New York also found the singer guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking<\/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, though all but one year 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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