R. Kelly hospitalized for overdose, claims murder plot in prison, lawyer says
Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
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Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
Attorneys for R. Kelly said the disgraced star is hospitalized after overdosing on medication given to him by prison staff while in solitary confinement.
R. Kelly's attorneys on Tuesday asked President Trump to help them get him freed from federal custody, accusing authorities of plotting steal his mail in order to pressure witnesses to testify against him, and later recruited a white supremacist to kill him in prison.
A federal appeals court has upheld singer R. Kelly's racketeering convictions and a 30-year prison sentence, finding he exploited his fame for over a quarter century to sexually abuse girls and young women.
Kelly, 57, is serving a 20-year prison sentence for his conviction on three counts of producing child pornography and three counts of enticing children for sex.
Kelly's attorneys claimed the charges of which Kelly was convicted in Chicago were filed after the statute of limitations had expired.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Kelly – whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was moved on Wednesday of last week.
The punishment won't add to the time ex-manager Donnell Russell is already set to serve for a different effort to squelch sexual abuse claims against Kelly.
Kelly still faces state charges in sexual assault and sexual abuse cases involving four women, three of whom were girls at the time of the alleged abuse.
Now 37, she has been identified in court only as "Jane," and had previously denied Kelly abused her, but prosecutors say that's because Kelly's team threatened her and her family.
The prosecutor is no longer affiliated with the case.
With the Chicago federal trial for R. Kelly and two of his associates set to begin in less than two weeks, attorneys for one of the defendants – Derrell McDavid – filed a bizarre motion in court Wednesday.
Donnell Russell, 47, of Chicago pleaded guilty to interstate stalking in before U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly in federal court in Brooklyn. He faces a maximum of years in prison.
Kelly was convicted last September on all eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering.
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