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Presidential Pardon Sought
Despite R Kelly’s serious criminal convictions, he continues to receive some support from certain celebrities; however, according to reports, he apparently needs direct backing from a former President to achieve his primary objective. The attorney for Robert Kelly, Beau B. Brindley, communicated to PEOPLE magazine that they are currently involved in negotiations aimed at obtaining a formal presidential pardon. Yet, the pardon should come from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who himself is in the same boat as far as legal constraints are concerned. Consequently, this effort represents a significant legal and political strategy pursued by R Kelly defense team.
Moreover, Brindley reportedly provided more detail to the publication about these ongoing efforts, stating directly: “We are in open discussions with people close to President Trump.” He further indicated the current status, adding: “And those discussions have expanded and intensified since we filed our motion.” Significantly, Brindley expressed a strong belief about Trump’s unique position, concluding: “We believe that President Trump is the only person with the courage to help us,” framing the request as requiring exceptional boldness.
Emergency Motion Filed
Meanwhile, the motion specifically referenced by Brindley relates directly to an alleged plot to murder R Kelly while he is incarcerated. According to his legal team’s claims, officials working within the prison system actually conspired with another inmate to carry out a planned attack intended to kill R Kelly. Consequently, driven by genuine fear for his client’s immediate safety and life, Brindley formally filed an emergency legal motion. The core purpose of this urgent motion is to secure Kelly’s immediate release from prison custody based on the alleged threat.
Additionally, Brindley made serious allegations about the conditions Kelly faced immediately after their emergency motion became public knowledge. He stated: “Immediately after our motion became public, R Kelly was thrown into solitary confinement.” On the other hand, Brindley explained the inhumanity and strictness of his client’s imprisonment: “He cannot make phone calls to his family, he has no access to commissary.” He went even further to describe the disturbing state of Kelly’s place of captivity by saying, “He has spiders crawling over him while he tries to sleep,” highlighting that this is a very arduous position both physically and psychologically.
Current Prison Sentence
It is important to mention that in this particular case, the former R&B singer R Kelly is sitting in jail, having already been sentenced to a long period of thirty years in a federal prison. The decisive point here is that these twenty-five years and eight months are a result of convictions of major federal crimes, that is, sex trafficking and racketeering. Accordingly, he is now making formal applications for a pardon from the President or, in the alternative, a reduction in the duration of his present sentence. Moreover, this matter has become a real emergency primarily due to the claims that someone inside the prison believes a murder plot is being designed exclusively for him, and this has definitely created a situation of high risk.
Kelly’s lawyer, Beau B. Brindley, made another significant claim regarding his client’s daily prison life. Specifically, Brindley stated that Kelly is now genuinely afraid to consume any food provided within the prison facility. This fear stems directly from a deep concern that his meals could potentially be poisoned by individuals seeking to harm him. Supporting the narrative of a conspiracy, inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine reportedly submitted a formal written declaration. Within this document, Stine alleges that three specific officers employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons directly approached him. Significantly, Stine claims these officers explicitly asked him to carry out the murder of the disgraced vocalist, R Kelly.
Alleged Conspirator’s Change & Past Attacks
Furthermore, according to the claims presented, inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine subsequently informed R Kelly himself about the alleged murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by the prison officers. Stine allegedly did this because he experienced a change of heart regarding participating in the scheme. Beyond this specific plot, lawyer Beau B. Brindley also alleged to PEOPLE magazine that his client, R Kelly, has unfortunately faced other dangerous attacks in the past while held within the federal prison system, indicating a pattern of vulnerability.
Therefore, Brindley strongly argued that maintaining Kelly’s incarceration under these threatening circumstances constitutes unacceptable treatment. He remarked pointedly concerning R. Kelly’s prison time: “He is not safe in federal custody.” Brindley described the matter as one that could present a constitutional transgression by stating: “And to keep him in prison while he is under threat like this is cruel and unusual punishment,” thus going straight at the unlawfulness of the situation where he is kept until now with the supposed threats.
However, it should be stated that the narrative of R Kelly is just one of many to talk of a possible pardon of a convicted felon from President Donald Trump. The story has it that the rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly in a conversation about a presidential pardon. The important point is that the U.S. President has reacted to these rumors about Diddy in public himself. The former U.S. President stated that he personally hadn’t heard anything official about such a request but would theoretically “look at the facts” if a pardon application for Diddy were ever formally presented to him.
