R. Kelly, who’s at present serving a 30-year jail sentence, is looking for to be launched from jail, claiming jail officers tried to solicit a fellow inmate to kill him.
In a court docket submitting on Tuesday, the disgraced R&B star requested a choose to be launched from the Federal Correctional Establishment in Butner, North Carolina. He’s serving a number of many years after being convicted in two separate prison circumstances for a number of intercourse crimes.
Kelly claims a jail officer “illegally accessed and stole a sequence of cellphone calls and emails” between the previous musician and a girl and his lawyer, in accordance with the movement. He additionally alleges a former cellmate stole “attorney-client correspondence” and shared the letters with prosecutors forward of his trial in New York.
To cease this data from being launched, Kelly alleges that jail officers tried to have him killed. Within the submitting, Kelly alleges {that a} fellow inmate, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang, got here as much as him and “disclosed that he was despatched to FCI Butner by BOP officers who directed him to homicide Mr. Kelly.” When he did not undergo with it, the submitting claims the Aryan Brotherhood member additionally “had his personal life threatened.”
Kelly’s lawyer, Beau Brindle, added in an announcement shared with The Hollywood Reporter, “R. Kelly’s life is being threatened due to his determination to face up and expose the violation of his constitutional rights made by corrupt prosecutors who use Bureau of Prisons officers and cooperating witnesses to facilitate these violations.”
“As soon as it grew to become clear that he was uncovering proof of the corruption underlying the costs in his federal circumstances, a white supremacist member of the Aryan Brotherhood was despatched to homicide him,” the assertion continued. “We’re submitting our movement to make it possible for they can not get away with it.”
In response, Billboard reported that prosecutors filed their very own paperwork asking the choose to strike Kelly’s submitting. “Robert Kelly is a serial sexual predator,” prosecutors wrote of their submitting. “He even documented his sexual abuse of kids on movie — creating youngster pornography — such that the abuse would dwell on in perpetuity. That abuse and harassment continues with defendant’s newest submitting.”
Kelly was convicted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking in New York in 2021 and located responsible of kid pornography and attractive minors for intercourse in Chicago in 2022. He was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the New York case, and to twenty years for the Chicago case, with each sentences overlapping.