After a court rejected his request for a brief furlough, R. Kelly will remain incarcerated; yet, the singer and his attorney are not giving up.
Kelly’s lawyer, Beau B. Brindley, says he is ready to submit a new move to have his client released from prison, even though Judge Martha Pacold rejected the first emergency motion for lack of jurisdiction.
Kelly was found guilty of a crime in the Northern District of Illinois, where the application for a temporary furlough was filed. He is presently being held at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, and the singer based his request on alleged incidents that happened in Arizona and North Carolina.
“We are not surprised by this ruling as we knew that technical jurisdiction would be a challenge under these circumstances,” Brindley stated. “However, we had no choice but to act immediately given explicit evidence of a threat to Robert Kelly’s life.”
Brindley, who made an emergency trip to see the singer on June 18, expressed his profound concern for his client’s health.
“Mr. Kelly remains in prison with blood clots in his lungs — this threatens his life every minute that he is denied the surgical intervention (pulmonary embolectomy) that Duke University hospital doctors sought to perform, but were prevented from executing,” Brindley stated. He continues: “The danger could not be more imminent.”
Citing recently uncovered information, Brindley says he intends to file a motion to overturn Kelly’s convictions in Illinois. He also requests immediate release on bond while the motion is being considered.
Officials from the Bureau of Prisons were allegedly plotting Kelly’s murder, according to the original emergency motion. It contained a statement from a fellow prisoner who stated that he was asked to carry out the murder when he was being held at a facility in Arizona.
He was then taken to Kelly’s compound in North Carolina, where he was kept in the same wing to purportedly do the task.
Mikeal Over the previous 20 years, convict Glenn Stine, who penned the declaration, has filed over 100 civil actions and petitions in federal court, so he is no stranger to the judicial system.
Additionally, he was convicted of threatening the lives of an assistant U.S. attorney and a federal magistrate judge in letters he sent from his jail cell in 2015.
Brindley submitted the request on Kelly’s behalf, and a few days later, he filed a supplement claiming that Kelly had been punished by being put in solitary confinement.
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in a later filing. Brindley claimed that while Kelly was in solitary confinement, the prison personnel responsible for his treatment had given him a potentially fatal combination of medicines.
In his response to the emergency motion, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Julien stated that prison officials were attempting to protect Kelly by putting him in solitary confinement.
He went on to say that Kelly “is a serial child molester whose criminal abuse of children dates back to at least President Bill Clinton’s first term in office — decades before Kelly was taken into federal custody.” He then stated, “Kelly has never taken responsibility for his years of sexually abusing children, and he probably never will.”
Kelly was found guilty on several counts of racketeering based on criminal activity in the Eastern District of New York and is presently serving a 30-year sentence.
These practices included coercing and transporting women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual behavior, forced labor, and the sexual exploitation of minors.
Additionally, Brindley says he is still in contact with individuals close to President Donald Trump in an effort to persuade him to pardon Kelly.
Although Kelly has no documented connections to the president, he did dwell in Chicago’s Trump Tower before being imprisoned.
