R. Kelly’s legal team has declared they will file to overturn the convictions in his sex trafficking and sexual assault case after declaring prosecutorial misconduct has been revealed following the alleged threats to his life.
R. Kelly’s attorney alleges prosecutorial misconduct
The disgraced singer’s attorney, Beau Brindley, announced plans to file a formal motion this week asking the court to throw out Kelly’s convictions. He said the legal documents will expose what actually transpired with prosecutors behind the scenes to secure the convictions.
“There will be no jurisdictional refuge from that motion and the truth it will uncover,” Brindley warned. “There will be no technical argument behind which government counsel can hide.”
Kelly is currently serving 30 years at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina. In September 2022, R. Kelly was convicted in a Chicago federal court on three counts of producing child pornography and three counts of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
The Chicago convictions in 2022 included charges related to the sexual abuse of minors and the production of child sexual abuse imagery. The jury found Kelly guilty on six of the thirteen counts he faced in the Chicago trial, and he is serving 20 years for those crimes concurrently with the New York sentence.
A plot was hatched to kill R. Kelly?
The prolific singer and songwriter is desperate to get out of prison after he claimed that the Aryan Brotherhood and the Bureau of Prisons allegedly conspired to murder him to cover up prosecutors’ alleged clandestine crimes.
Two days after moving Robert Sylvester Kelly to solitary confinement — against his will, he claims — he suffered a prescription drug overdose. When the prison medical staff could not adequately heal him, Kelly was rushed to the Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, about 15 miles southwest of Butner, where Kelly spent two days recovering.
In a June 17 statement, Beau Brindley, Kelly’s lawyer, reiterated the seriousness of the team’s claims and also related that the doctors told him that the overdose could have killed him.
“For those who responded with skepticism about whether Bureau of Prisons officers would really engage in a plot to kill R. Kelly, those prison officials have now removed all doubt,” he said. “They want R. Kelly dead before the crimes committed against him in his cases are exposed.”
A petition to the president for a pardon
Brindley had already petitioned President Donald Trump to pardon the “Bump and Grind” singer out of the “need” for this “form of justice,” USA Today reported.
“It is this immediate and imminent threat that compels us again to seek the intervention of President Trump. The courts do not move as quickly as the efforts to kill this man. President Trump may be the only person who can save the life of R. Kelly,” the attorney wrote in the brief.
Included in the filing was the fact that Kelly was forcefully removed from his Duke University hospital room as physicians reportedly prepared him for surgery to remove ongoing blood clot issues. Doctors estimated that the medical procedure would take about two weeks to recover from.
However, when the officers assigned to Kelly notified FCI Butner officials of the doctor’s diagnosis and prognosis, Brindley said armed guards appeared at the hospital and removed Kelly and shipped him back to the prison.
His “life is in jeopardy right now because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to clear clots from his lungs,” the lawyers wrote. “He could die from this condition, and they are letting it happen.”
Federal prosecutors have already dismissed Kelly’s emergency motions as “fanciful” and “theatrical,” USA Today reports.
